From the monthly archives:

March 2010

How To Boil Water

March 21, 2010

As a student at the University of Miami, I didn’t know how to boil water. A friend from college recently reminded me of this and remarked that it’s ironic I now write a food blog. I can remember being stymied by a box of hamburger helper. College meals consisted of raiding my sorority sisters’ fridges and [...]

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Chili Cookoff

March 13, 2010

St. Michael must have been working overtime on March 6th. As the patron saint of grocers, he was busy helping the families of St. Michael the Archangel Regional School get ready for their first annual chili cookoff. 16 families competed for the Best Chili prize at the school, located in Clayton, NJ. In addition to the [...]

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Greek 2 Love

March 7, 2010

Karen Lefebvre-Christou chopped scallions while talking in Greek to her husband Christos. He was working in Paris for the week and a bad Skype connection meant that Karen and her son Alex had to raise their voices to clearly be heard. After disconnecting, Alex worked on peeling cucumbers for our tzatziki while trying to teach [...]

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Competitive Cupcakes

March 3, 2010

Danielle Ackerman carefully placed 3 of her flame-topped Spicy Hot Chocolate cupcakes on the judging table and took a seat nearby to watch the festivities. A graphic designer and amateur baker, Danielle hoped to win first prize in the Moorestown Iron Cupcake Challenge. Bakers from the Greater Philadelphia area gathered at Tortilla Press Cantina in Pennsauken, [...]

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