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 […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 7th, 2011 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Chicken, Fruit, Grains, No really, what IS for lunch?, Nuts, Salads
ShareI hold a very special place in my heart for chicken salad. Growing up in Baltimore, it was a menu main stay for pretty much every occasion: bridal showers, baby showers, buffets, cocktail parties, tailgates. Name an event and a Baltimoron will find a way to get chicken salad on the menu. The perennial favorites […]
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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 […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 14th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Appetizer, Dinner, Fruit, Pork
ShareI’m in a fight with my stove. We aren’t speaking at present. The problem? The bitch is electric. Most food people would agree that gas is great. Gas is king. Electric is for “cooks” who want easy cleanup and are afraid of fire. Not me! Not me! I love fire. I would have been queen […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 BY Meredith AND STORED IN Baking, Breakfast, Fruit, Nuts
ShareWe were back in Stratton for the long weekend, skiing and sitting by the fire and enjoying too much Merlot (or Cabernet, or Pinot, or Malbec…we’re not picky). A running problem I have with skiing is this: to get the good runs in, before the hoodlums and ski school descend upon the mountain, you have […]