Food & drink

The Unhealthy Truth (with giveaway) and why I’m on alert for frankenfood

September 6, 2011

Along with some other writers, I was invited to lunch one day in July with a woman named Robyn O’Brien, founder of AllergyKids, for an event sponsored by Stonyfield Yogurt — which, to its credit, seemed mostly interested in getting Robyn’s word out and not so much in promoting its product. I had no idea [...]

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Balls. Bourbon Balls.

October 28, 2008

(Lori’s Childhood Trivia is below the recipe part of the post.) Emma is hosting a recipe exchange for the holidays. I’m getting my entry in early because, well, when you see how yummy these are, you’re going to want to have a batch on hand from now through, oh, Halloween 2009. Emma has asked us [...]

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Get thee to a liquor store…

August 21, 2007

…so you can make this fabulous end-of-summer dessert. Buy a bottle of Limoncello. It’s $15-$20, but it will last you awhile. And stop at the grocery store for some raspberry sherbet and either fresh or frozen raspberries (I’ve had trouble with the fresh, for inevitably there is a moldy one hidden by the packaging. Also, [...]

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It’s Friday! Belly on up to the voting booth

August 3, 2007

I’ve hosted the occasional Mojito Friday here. Thanks to my Mom Friends, I’m going to serve some other interesting concoctions today. The first Monday afternoon of summer break, I called three of my mom friends to come over — with kids — for Happy Hour. I served Mojitos and Doritos. (The kids partook only of [...]

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My Death Row Cake

June 25, 2007

It’s the Town Crier’s blogoversary, and all over people are celebrating their own occasions with cakes and photos of them. It’s too hot here to fire up the oven. Instead, I’ve researched one of my all-time favorite recipes. If I were on Death Row, this would be my last meal. When you make it with [...]

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