Month: April 2022
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“C” Is For Chickpea
A few weeks ago I made a salad for lunch. One ingredient I love to throw on a salad is chickpeas. As soon as I sat down to eat it, my mind went into what I call one of its “stream of consciousness creative sessions” about chickpeas. I’m not sure what causes these moments to…
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Wednesday Q&A – 4/27/22
Welcome to the place where your two bloggers ask each other one question each week. We hope you enjoy them as your learn a bit more about us – sometimes we even learn more about each other! Ray’s question to Karen: Q: What cooking utensil or utensils would you feel lost without if they vanished…
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Tower of Terra
As spring has finally arrived with some degree of confidence, it is time to turn my mind to my garden. As Ray mentioned in a previous post, he likes to Aerogarden, and although I have one as well, my preference is to garden in containers located on my patio. Few things are better when cooking…
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Wednesday Q&A – 4/20/22
Welcome to the place where your two bloggers ask each other one question each week. We hope you enjoy them as your learn a bit more about us – sometimes we even learn more about each other! Ray’s question to Karen: Q: My mood often changes when it comes to the ingredients I use or…
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From Angie’s Kitchen – Easter Cake Revisited
Welcome to round 2 of Easter cake! In this round we each take a shot at trying to change and/or modernize the original recipe in some way. As I said at the end of round 1, we are free to research again and when creating a round 2 recipe, the sky is the limit. So,…
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Wednesday Q&A – 4/13/22
Welcome to the place where your two bloggers ask each other one question each week. We hope you enjoy them as your learn a bit more about us – sometimes we even learn more about each other! Ray’s question to Karen: Q: In our family, cooking together is often a social event and that tradition…
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From Angie’s Kitchen – Easter Cake
As many of you may know, From Angie’s Kitchen is a recurring segment on the blog where Ray and I attempt to decipher a book of recipes handwritten by his grandmother in her youth. As with many things from a hundred years ago, it is not always easy to figure out what terms may have…
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Wednesday Q&A – 4/6/22
Welcome to the place where your two bloggers ask each other one question each week. We hope you enjoy them as your learn a bit more about us – sometimes we even learn more about each other! Ray’s question to Karen: Q: Do you like to listen to music while working in the kitchen, or…
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Butterscotchies With Salty Pecans
It seems that lately I have fallen into doing a series of brownie like dessert recipe creations. I never planned for it to happen, it just sort of evolved on its own. The first brownie recipe was one that we did for one of our from Angie’s kitchen posts back in January. While that one…
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