Category: Food & Beverages

• Empty Nester Adventures: 4 Days in San Diego

  

  One does not need to venture far to find beauty and entertainment in San Diego. It has been a frequent winter destination for us over the past several years.

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  May 4, 2023

  Empty Nesters Travel, Food & Beverages, Food & Wine, Uncategorized

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• Recipes for Inspiration: My New Cookbook Review Column for the Book Club Restaurant Blog

  

  There are cookbooks, and there are story books. It is a gift to the reader when the two genres effortlessly intersect. The books become well told histories of life, sustenance, and revelations regarding how the authors acquire their well-deserved spots in the world of food.

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  April 18, 2023

  Cookbooks, Food & Beverages, Food & Wine

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• Empty Nester Adventures In Italy: 4 days in Taormina, Sicily

  

  We recently spent 4 days in beautiful Taormina Sicily. The sights, sounds and culinary experiences were incredible. Our first visit to Italy since prior to the start of the pandemic was magnificent and we can’t wait to return.

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  September 30, 2022

  Food & Beverages, Food & Wine, Uncategorized

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• Empty Nester Adventures In Italy: Our 5 day Visit To The Amalfi Coast

  

  “You may have the universe if I may have Italy” ~ Giuseppe Verdi Faint breezes carried the scent of sea air to us upon deplaning in Naples. The bright Amalfi Coast sunshine is like mother Nature’s welcome back sign. If it is possible to find a place that feels like a home away from home…

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  August 23, 2022

  Food & Beverages, Food & Wine, Uncategorized

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• Hiyu Wine Farm

  

  “If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul” ~ Clifton Fadiman Twenty-two miles fromMount Hood’s snowy peak,in an alpine river valley teemingwith birds and oscillating light,lives a wild farm. Cows, chickens,and pigs graze among vines and fungi and flowers proliferate as gardens merge with forest.” ~ Hiyu Website Birthdays are special,…

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  June 22, 2022

  Farming and Sustainability, Food & Beverages, Food & Wine, Uncategorized

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• Leftover Makeover: How to Make a Vegetable, Goat Cheese and Bacon Frittata

  

  “Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art” ~ Grant Achatz In a frittata, the eggs are the canvas. The vegetables make up the color palate, and this is where you as the cook can add your own touches of brightness as well as a multitude of vibrant flavors. In our kitchen no…

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  February 8, 2022

  farmers markets, Food & Beverages, Uncategorized

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• Harvest Recipe: Roasted Delicata Squash with Bacon, Local Maple Syrup and Goat Cheese

  

  John and I spent the 2020 Thanksgiving holiday in an unusually quiet fashion last year due to COVID-19. I still cooked the full dinner, because to me the Thanksgiving meal is about sharing love & gratitude, and I wasn’t going to let the coronavirus get in the way of that. We pivoted from our usual…

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  November 19, 2021

  Eat Your Words/Culinary Puzzle, Food & Beverages, Uncategorized

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• Eat Your Words: 125 Food and Beverage Themed Puzzles for Hungry Minds

  

  I am thrilled to share that I recently published my first book! Eat Your Words consists of 125 food and beverage themed puzzles and it truly is a feast for hungry minds. This book is a compilation of work that started many years ago and it has been a labor of love to put so…

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  November 15, 2021

  Eat Your Words/Culinary Puzzle, Food & Beverages, Uncategorized

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