WRITTEN ON Saturday, August 20th, 2011 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Fruit
ShareI am headed to the east end of Long Island for one last summer trip. I have spent a decade of summers in Westhampton Beach, the first town in the Hamptons (and so un-Hampton-y that they actually don’t even list it on the map in most Hamptons publications). This year, hubby and I decided we’d [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, August 12th, 2011 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Dessert, Fruit
ShareI’ve just returned from a week in Rockport, Massachusetts, a little town on the edge of Cape Ann, about 45 minutes north of Boston. I’ve written about Rockport before, on several occasions. And for good reason.
I’ve spent every summer of my life in Rockport, in a house on a hill that was first purchased by [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 25th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Dessert, Holiday
ShareI actually started to well up a bit as I typed out the title of this post. I know some recent admissions of mine may make it seem as though I’m in a constant struggle. And I fear some of my more fertility based rants may have been misconstrued, or perhaps poorly communicated.
There are a [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, October 28th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Fruit, Holiday, Italian
ShareI always loved Halloween as a kid. It was the highlight of the fall. And I don’t even like candy.
I had the kind of mom who’d make my costumes herself. There were never any store bought mermaid or Miss America costume-in-a-bag outfits in our house. I think the best costume I ever had was the [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Beans, Dessert, Fish and Shellfish, Mediterranean, Tomatoes
ShareI think I may have already broken my New Year’s resolutions. The thing is, I didn’t really speak them out loud. So if I were a dishonest person I could just forget about them entirely and pretend I never made any. Ugh. Sometimes I really hate honesty.
They were, as follows: 1) Only one serving of [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 24th, 2009 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Cookies, Dessert, Holiday
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How appropriate that this post should be my 100th. I knew it was coming up, but hadn’t actually planned to have it coincide with this recipe. Maybe it’s Dot smiling down on me? I like to think so. I miss her right about now.
This was my grandmother’s signature recipe. Her calling card, if you [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Chocolate, Dessert, Holiday
ShareOk folks, check out the below YouTube link for the next entry in my Spice Diaries, plus the recipes below that are featured in the demo! I promise it will work this time. My cloudy old brain gets a little confused by these new-fangled computer tricks but I brought myself up to speed right quick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0dhuZFwl_c
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Dessert, Fruit, Holiday
ShareI’m running around like a madwoman this week prepping for a 12 person four course plated meal tomorrow night and a baby shower this weekend. I was excited when the hostess for the dinner tomorrow requested these gorgeous red wine poached pears for her dessert course. Why? I think poached pears present so elegantly, are [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, November 16th, 2009 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Cheese, Dessert, Holiday
ShareThe guy at the end of the hall is my least favorite person on the planet, and I don’t even know his name.
He’s one of those know-it-all types that would argue that the sky is green and everyone else is color-blind. He’s also extremely unhygienic (which wouldn’t bother me really if he wasn’t such [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Chocolate, Dessert
ShareIt is a universal truth that enterprising cooks just can’t leave well enough alone. Even the most tried and true recipes beg to be tampered with, each cook putting their own personal stamp on greatness. In my opinion, this is true cooking. Getting away from recipes and testing the waters in your own kitchen.
If [...]