24 Gifts That Give – Charitable Gift Ideas for Food Lovers

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Last year, I wrote a guest post on the lovely Robyn Webb’s Fabulous Food Finds blog about 5 holiday gift ideas tied to food and charity. Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the long list to Santa, it often feels like we’ve become very removed from what the spirit of the holiday season is all about. [...]

The Recipe Redux: Black-eyed Peas and Bacon

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Black-eyed peas brought us a fair amount of luck in 2011. These ‘magic’ beans just appeared in our garden this year; and as coincidence would have it, this season we had the most bountiful garden in our gardening history! While our home-grown supply of black-eyed peas has long since been turned into salads, soups and [...]

Cinnamon Crisps: A Community Cookbook Gem

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One of my favorite baking challenges is to thumb through my collection of community cookbooks until I find a recipe I’ve never before seen or tasted. There are never descriptive photographs in these books. Upping the ante even more, all ingredient lists and instructions are of course written in the home cook’s (often less-than-complete) hand [...]