“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~Ernest Hemingway Happy New Year! Arbitrary or not, I love the new year. I love the symbolic nature of starting anew, setting goals, creating priorities and since I’m a love-to-check-things-off-a-list person, I also love making new lists! And so I am doing again this year—in 2020—what I do just about every new year, which is set new goals, create priorities and make some new lists. All with clear eyes, a strong heart, and the best intentions to be the best that I can be. Being the Best I Can Be…
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No Soup For You!
And Again, If You Can’t Take the Heat… “I do not live off canned soup.” ~Charles Best I do not live off canned soup, that’s for sure. Not because I’m against canned soup—because I’m not at all, but rather, I don’t eat much soup at all. I do really like some soups (my favorite being the minestrone from Connie’s in Chicago) and of course I love clam chowder from just about anywhere in Boston. But I kind of think of those as categories in their own right. Soup isn’t something I usually make, or order in restaurants. If I do, I’m probably counting calories… But I digress. I wasn’t really…
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Tasting 2019
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” ~Sarah Louise Delany Sarah Delany’s quote was the one I chose to lead the way in 2019, and it proved true. 2019 was definitely sweet! 2019. You tasted pretty damn good. Here are 19 random things I learned, or relearned this year: *Life with Peter is the best! *Even when they leave dog hair everywhere, they are worth having in my home and in my life—I love my Liberty and Peyton girls. *Texas gas stations are the best gas stations in the world. *Running in old running shoes isn’t a good idea. *Even in Russia, being from…
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Happy As a Clam
“I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can’t teach a chimp to dream about how great it is.” ~Mario Batali While I can’t speak for the chimp, I dream all the time about how great linguini and clams are! Really? Really. Keep reading and you’ll see that this recipe—which was published in 2015, the hardest year of my life—left me as happy as a clam. Cook the 40 Why take on Food & Wine’s best-ever recipes from their forty years in publication? Because if you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s one of the things I’m doing this year! Besides, I’m hoping that taking on…
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Breakfasts of Champions
“Pizza and pie for breakfast? You betcha’!” ~eamII Finally some breakfast recipes in this Cook the 40 Challenge. Although I suppose any recipe can be a breakfast recipe if you make it to eat in the morning, right? Right. The Most Important Meal of the Day? I haven’t always been a big breakfast person. Even now, if I’m not intentionally making a recipe or wanting to pig out on tacos, I more than likely will just have some whole milk in the morning. One reason is that, if it were up to me, I would always sleep in, so eating in the morning usually ends up being late morning or…
