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Two for One

July 28, 2010

Dear Florence and Darla, Please adopt me. You are fabulous and I want to be part of your families. (To my readers who don’t know Florence and Darla – I spent a happy afternoon making spinach kugel with Florence and nut ball cookies with her adopted granddaughter Darla. Below you’ll find more info as to [...]

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Hectic

June 11, 2010

“Hectic” was my mother’s answer to just about everything. “How’s life?” people would ask. “Hectic,” would be her reply. “Can you be a classroom mom?” the teachers would ask.  “Nope, things are too hectic right now.” I wondered why adult life was so hectic. Surely adults could set their own schedules; do what they want, [...]

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Pizza & Hotdogs & Comedy = Chicago

May 22, 2010

In my entire life I never thought I would utter, ‘there is just too much cheese,’ and yet that’s exactly what I found myself exclaiming when eating Giordano’s stuffed crust deep dish pizza. There was so much cheese that I briefly worried about it being a choking hazard. If I choked on the long strands [...]

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Annalayna’s Hamentaschen

April 24, 2010

Nicole Jaconetti is the kind of woman who finds opportunities and then turns them into success. If opportunity was a baseball, she would hit it out of the park. To keep up with the sports metaphors (and because Nicole is a Flyers fan), if opportunity was a hockey puck, she would score goal after goal. [...]

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Elijah and Easter

April 5, 2010

Thanks to a diverse group of friends and family, my take on religion is like an a la carte menu. I pick elements from a few different offerings, combining them into my own spirituality. This week was Jewish + Christian and it all added up to several days of good eats. The week started with a delicious hamantaschen recipe [...]

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Drinking Something New

April 3, 2010

Sometimes wine makes me laugh. And I don’t mean after I drink too much. It’s more the descriptions of the vintage. Last night at the Chesapeake Wine Company in Baltimore I had a good laugh but it turned out the joke was on me. While wandering through the well-stocked store, with a glass of “sweet, [...]

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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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