Happy Friday and a Smothered Pork Preview

Wow, what a crazy busy week this was! I tested and photographed 10 recipes for the cookbook, including the succotash recipe immortalized in...
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Recipe for Spicy Dipping Sauce with Sriracha for Sweet Potato Fries or Roasted Vegetables

I remember how delighted I was when I discovered Sweet Potato Fries, and the recipe on the blog for Spicy Sweet Potato Fries has been a fav...
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Recipe for Arugula and Sweet Mini Pepper Salad

(Updated and added to Recipe Favorites , February 2010.) This is a recipe from 2006 that's so simple it's almost an oxymoron to cal...
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Leftover Special: Quick and Easy Spinach Toast

Am I busy? Does Popeye have freakishly large forearms? No matter how crazy my schedule gets these days as I approach the deadline for all th...
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There are still good Teens out there

There are still good Teens out there

Despite the fact that I spend my day with about 100 or so high schoolers (mainly Juniors and Seniors) there are times that I am scared to g...
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Slow Cooker Recipe for Louisiana-Style Red Beans and Rice

I first went to New Orleans sometime in the early 1990s, attending the National Education Association Representative Assembly , representing...
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