Lone Star Hawkeye Casserole

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How do recipes happen? How is food culture transmitted? In the best sense, a recipe is a quilt of who a family is. Leave it to the internet to make everyone their own rock-star. Celebrity chefs and food bloggers put a face forward and the impression is that each of these individuals created from …click to continue Lone Star Hawkeye Casserole

Creamy Vegetable Slow Cooker Stew

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There are two kinds of crockpot recipes. There is the kind where you set it and you have something yummy eight hours later when you get home from work. Then there is the kind that you fool with here and there over four hours but time isn’t particularly critical. This is the second kind. …click to continue Creamy Vegetable Slow Cooker Stew

Balsamic Potato and Corn Salad

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Summer is fading into memory. But, I continue to crave summer salads. So bear with me and my thoughts will turn to pot roasts and chicken spaghetti soon enough.

Up until yesterday, I still had a big pile of Vermont red potatoes from my husband’s trip to the Northeast. I will not be letting …click to continue Balsamic Potato and Corn Salad

Avocado Black Bean Dip

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This is one of the best…dips, salsas, toppings, salads…frankly, I don’t know what to call it other than delicious. It is one of those inventions (sadly, not mine) that I have wanted to make 3 times a week since I first tasted it a few weeks ago. The star of the show, to me, …click to continue Avocado Black Bean Dip