Canning Tomatoes, Salsa & Pickles Class Scheduled Aug. 24
Advertise Here Would you like to spice up your meals with home-canned pickles or salsa? Are you looking for information on canning tomatoes safely? Then plan to attend the class […]
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Grateful for the Red (beets) white (feta) and blue(berries)
Recently my hubby and I decided that we needed more appreciation of what we have in our lives. It is so easy to forget what we have and how fortunate […]
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Life is a clafoutis full of sweet cherries
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious; it’s too mysterious” -Lew Brown Cherries just make me happy. I bought a […]
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ARE YOURS RIPENING, RED AND READY?
EDITOR’S NOTE: May might be “Strawberry Month”, but many varieties are known as “June-bearing” – and the berries from the valley have only been available for the past week. Look […]
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Summer mission: Grilling the perfect burger
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “The biggest mistake people make is pushing the burger around because they want to look like a grill master,” Jeff Weinstein, burger master I […]
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Kitchen Maven: Tapas Talk
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Tapas are a wide variety of appetizers, or snacks, in Spanish gastronomy. They may be cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or warm […]
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The secrets to successful (spectacular) salads
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “For me, making a salad is as much as a joy as eating one.” -Alice Waters This is the time of year that I […]
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KITCHEN MAVEN: Let My People Go
By Judith Berman-Yamada, Kitchen Maven Passover commemorates the story of exodus, and the liberation of the Israelites, from 400 years of slavery, celebrating the biblical account of their redemption and […]
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Hamming it up for Easter
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “The Easter ham holds the same place of honor on the dinner table that milady’s hat does in the Easter Parade.” – Mary Meade […]
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Kitchen Maven: What Did The Snake Say?
By Judith Yamada Have an apple. Apples are sweet edible fruit produced by the apple tree (malus pumila). There are over 7500 varieties grown worldwide. Apples originated in the mountainous […]
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