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EVERY Friday night that we’re home, we make pizza. We use a traditional recipe for the crust (flour, yeast, salt, olive oil). On one of our pizza nights a friend…

Strawberries are in season! There’s nothing like a fresh strawberry, especially if you can get them from a farm that grows them locally. Once I’ve gotten my fill of fresh…

You’d think that since we only live two hours apart, our families would get together more than twice a year. We try. We really do but it’s hard when you’ve…

Time marches on and on. I am truly glad to watch 2017 recede from view. I never in a million years thought that a presidential election would affect my psyche…

I have been, and always will be, a sucker for anything that’s pickled or fermented. Maybe it’s a southern thing. My mom (from Alabama) and my dad’s mom (from Virginia)…

This time of year green markets and farmer’s markets sell garlic scapes. What are scapes? Scapes are the center stalk that grow from the bulb, and if it isn’t cut…