Everyone has a go-to dish for different events. Our daughter has been making these lemon bars for as long as I can remember. She’s shown how to make them to non-cooks, and delivers them happily to new moms, birthday folks, and as hostess gifts. She’s figured out that they taste OK when done gluten free,…
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Chocolate Date Cake
While our girls were growing up, we always had extra children in the house. It helped that we were the closest home to the island’s one room schoolhouse. Consequently I tried to have quick snacks that would refuel them before they’d head out to play on our farm. Sometimes it was just a snack to…
Moroccan Salad with Quinoa
We used to have a flat-weave picnic basket. It was lined in green tartan, and had a place for everything that a family might need for a great lunch. Today we tend to pack lunches into coolers or backpacks, with lots of ice or freezer paks. Somehow our unchilled lunches of yesteryear never made us…
Rice Salad with Ginger & Lemongrass
Potlucks are easy ways to gather for a meal. They’ve been around for years, and will continue for many to come. One way to hold a potluck is to give no rules, and just see what turns up. There have been stories of twelve bowls of green salads lined up, with nothing else. Or the…
Farmhouse Chicken Wings
I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually had Chicken Wings in a pub setting. Most likely because I had left the city and was living on this lovely little island before they became a “thing”. There are, however, a couple of recipes of sticky, yummy chicken that I remember most fondly. One was a family…
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