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One of my favorite things to cook is bolognese sauce. I was turned on to it by my friend Marcia, who passed me a copy of Marcella Hazan’s recipe. The recipe is very simple. And like so many things in life, the more time you put into it, the better it turns out. The first […]

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The meals are stacking up fast and furious heading into the holidays. It’s a bit daunting to think of all the things I’ll be cooking between now and January 1, but it’s also going to be a lot of fun. Recently I made my first batch of chicken stock using the remains of a chicken […]

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You may have noticed the small block of ad links over there on the right side of the page. The idea is that the thousands of people who visit this blog will click on links to ads for potato casserole, and I’ll subsequently become rich beyond my wildest dreams. Here’s how it works. Every time […]

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Well, it’s not sticking to the ground. In fact there are hardly any flakes at all; the sky is filled mostly with rain. But every now and then you can see a small streak of white go by. I wonder how Ava’s going to like the snow this year. She was a bit small to […]

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Fall in Iowa is hard to beat. Actually, the entire upper Midwest is a visual wonderland in October. Even on those occasional gray, soggy days when the clouds seem 10 feet off the ground, the dull browns and golds of the farm fields spread out for miles like richly hued wool rugs. Bright, sunny days […]

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