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Recently tomatoes have been cut from our diet. I love tomatoes and many of the recipes I cook are tomato based. Here’s the issue: tomatoes are part of the nightshade family, along with a few more of my favorite foods such as peppers and eggplants. In some people the nightshade plants make arthritis worse and […]

We recently came across an old email entitled Instructions for Life. The 45 positive recommendations on the list are meant to help make one’s life better. By turning some of the instructions upside down and we created bad life advice that will keep novel characters in turmoil. Next time things are going too smoothly with […]

With winter in full swing, I asked cookbook author and gourmet guru, Sloane Taylor to stop by and prepare us a pre-Mardi Gras dish guaranteed to keep you warm enough to make you believe that you’re in the middle of New Orleans on a steamy summer evening. Welcome, Sloane! My virtual kitchen is yours, so […]

As we close up the second year of the pandemic, albeit a more hopeful year than 2020, I can’t help but wonder what’s in store for us resilient humans in 2022. Perhaps resilience is the key. Being resilient in your chosen profession and your life. If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything it’s to […]

My hubby and I like to hit the sauce at lunchtime—no, wait! That didn’t sound right! What I meant to say is we like barbeque sauce for lunch! At least, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. While we’re not sauciers or even a saucier’s apprentice, we do enjoy experimenting with flavors, because we […]

  Ebenezer ScroogeScrooge. The Grinch. Mr. Potter—not Harry—the miserable old coot in the wheelchair from the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. These are a few of my favorite Christmas Baddies—those characters who challenge, set up road blocks, and create a swill of holiday ‘uncheer’ for the heroes of their stories. They’re fun to watch and […]