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When my son was a baby, he slept schunched up like a frog on top of a large frog stuffed animal. When he was about 18 months old he discovered a stuffed puppy (aka Pup the Dog) without whom he wou...

I just tried spaghetti squash for the first time this week, and I'm so glad. Tossed with olive oil, nicoise olives, artichokes, capers, and goat cheese, it was fan-flippin-tastic. And in spite of t...

This looks totally, supremely, fantastically awesome.

Oh, my, I love this. Wish there were one for the Southeast!

I roast frozen broccoli often. You have to choose a brand that packages the broccoli in larger pieces, as broccoli roasts in the oven much faster than cauliflower. It's not as good as fresh, but it...

Thanks for the shout-out! And thanks to all of you for your kind comments...you all made my day!

sarahope's recipe is very similar to mine. I add a bit of soy sauce, and I don't measure, but the ratios look dead-on to replicate the mustard sauce popularized by the Bessinger brothers in SC.

My mom and I recently threw a bridal luncheon for my sister. Scarred from years of miserable wedding and baby showers (with and without games), we wanted to do something different, so we held a see...

In Brazil they saute thin shreds of collards and toss them with lemon or vinegar. They are divine this way, though more prep-intensive than the braised way. Of course, as a daughter of...

For the first time ever, I managed to clog my disposal yesterday (I grew up w/ a disposal in the South, so this was a kluge 30 years in the making). What I did was totally boneheaded: I forced nea...

Thanks for these helpful ideas. I have considered drawers for the cupboard I currently use. Container Store sells a very wide pull-out drawer that could be nice. Still, I have got a LOT of bulky st...