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Eggs Benedict, 131 Years Later By Linda Garrettson In my November 2024 article I wrote about creating new traditions at Thanksgiving. Here we are, one year later, and I am thinking about traditions again. This time it’s eggs Benedict. As long as I can remember, our family holiday breakfasts featured eggs Benedict, a delicious stack […]
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What Happened to the Trick? By Linda Garrettson October is a month when I rejoice about the fact that my weeds have finally stopped growing. Brilliant bursts of color, orange in particular, dominate the landscape. October also brings scary lawn decorations, shorter days and pumpkins on doorsteps. It culminates with the magic, wonderment, and excitement […]
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Summer Corn Lovin’ By Linda Garrettson“Summer Lovin” is more than a song for me. It’s memories, not just of sun and fun, but food. My favorite summer food [drum roll] is corn. Once at camp I ate eight ears of corn, (plus four helpings of meat loaf and mashed potatoes.) My saliva glands start working […]
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Strawberry Pudding Cake By Linda Garrettson I was never good at chemistry. Neither was anyone in my family. We all missed out on the chemistry gene. To my great relief, my youngest daughter was able to sidestep her science requirement by taking Physics for Poets. Where was that bold and imaginative curriculum when I was […]
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“Back To The Womb” Lentil Loaf By Linda Garrettson I don’t know about anybody else, but going back to the womb—or childhood, at the very least—sounds like a good idea. Day dreams aside, memories of my post-war childhood in America are the next best thing. Back then, my biggest problem was the fact that our […]
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An Apple A Day By Linda Garrettson The best part of writing this food column is finding new inspirations for recipes. There are two months between my issues. Sometimes I get close to the deadline without an epiphany, other times I might have several ideas. For this issue my inspiration came early. The unlikely source […]
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Creating Traditions By Linda Garrettson It’s November, the month of perhaps the most defining culinary holiday event … the Thanksgiving dinner. Here’s a list of some of the most traditional dishes we all might remember: Roasted turkey with bread stuffing, mashed potatoes swimming in butter, gravy loaded with turkey drippings, jellied cranberries with those telltale rings from […]
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What to do with too many cukes By Linda Garrettson To all you gardeners out there, and to all of you who are on the receiving end of anyone’s late summer garden, you’re going need recipes for cucumbers. I don’t know about anyone else, but this was a banner year for that juicy, cooling veggie […]
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This is so cool By Linda Garrettson It’s July, and it’s hot. The thermometer hit 90 degrees in the Icebox of Connecticut the day I wrote this article. What can we do but spend our days at Tobey Pond (my idea of heaven) or sit in an air-conditioned home? In my world food solves many […]
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Got a (Tofu) Piccata? By Linda Garrettson If anyone reading this thinks tofu will ruin an Italian recipe, listen up. These cutlets can hold their own in any Marsala, chicken parmesan or piccata recipe. Tofu has long been maligned with complaints that range from its texture to lack of flavor. However, tofu, made from soybeans, […]
