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Homemade Mayonnaise

Before you get all indignant with me, telling me how you hate mayonnaise, I’ll make a confession: I hate mayo. It is however, a necessary evil because it is a key ingredient to some of my favorite foods, namely deviled eggs, egg salad, tuna salad, potato salad and chicken salad. My husband would vehemently disagree [...]

It Is All Gravy Baby

The holidays are fast approaching & with them comes holiday meal planning. Not many things strike fear in my heart – but I’ll admit that making gravy makes me nervous. It never comes out right. It is always oily or wrong, or it tastes weird. My in-laws are coming for turkey day next [...]

We Interrupt Berries For Basil

Last week, while Katie valiantly survived both a mega-headache & her first week of grad school (I can just smell the freshly sharpened pencils & notebooks) B purchased the largest bundle of basil known to mankind (along with copious amounts of cilantro & chives.)  (My cruddy photo of said herbs taking over my fridge.)

The lucky duck [...]