Spicy Seafood Stew

J is away for the week, which is a good opportunity to eat the foods that she won’t eat. Last night, we went out for Indian food. The night before, we had chicken breasts stuffed with spinach and ricotta, a dish that L has been asking me to make for a while. Tonight, we had [...]

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Jellyfish & Seahorses

Have you ever eaten jellyfish? I have. It doesn’t taste like chicken. In fact, it doesn’t even taste like much of anything. Jellyfish is sort of crunchy and chewy, but not as chewy as overcooked squid. It takes on the taste of the sauce in which it is served or cooked. It is something that [...]

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The Never Ending Paella

It serves me right for not using my usual Paella recipe. I figured that I’d wing it with no problem. Didn’t even look at the timing or the quantities, if only for reference purposes. That is why we didn’t sit down to dinner tonight with Grandma and WG until 7:30. More than an hour after [...]

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2-4 Dinner

While S and J are away skiing, I thought that I’d make some of L’s favorites for dinner. Tonight we had a dish that both of us would rank high on a “Best of Mom’s Meals” list. I served it with broccoli, which would not be at the top of either L or J’s lists, [...]

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Down to my last jar…

I made a pasta sauce with my second to last jar of early girl tomatoes that I canned with my friends over the summer. It was so good, you could eat it alone – and I mean all alone, as in from the pot, with no one in the kitchen, using a dishtowel to wipe [...]

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