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Maple Granola with Cranberries and Apples

Over Labor Day weekend, Andy and I rented a Prius and drove up to Montreal. Our favorite thing about the city was their quick and easy bike rental system. We signed up for 24 hours and were able to pick up and drop off bikes from hundreds of locations all over the city. When you

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Fresh Corn Cakes with Gorgonzola Dolce Ice Cream

Looking at this photo gives me the most acute sense of pleasure and pain. Pleasure because it’s one of those dishes that was so freaking good I found myself asking: “Did I seriously come up with this and pull it off?!?” And pain because the inspiration for this dessert came from – hands down –

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Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate and Cranberries

If you’ve read The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great, you know that I lost forty pounds nine years ago. I did by establishing new pleasurable eating rituals throughout my day. No diet. I’m proud of the way I’ve mostly maintained my weight, but these last several months have been challenging. Traveling back

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Create-Your-Own Sushi Bowl

Over the years I’ve slowly and steadily decreased my meat and dairy consumption, but about two months ago I made a decision to temporarily take it down to almost nil. What started out as a brief experiment is becoming more  permanent.  I’ve become what my friend Penny once called a “vaguean”  meaning, I’m vegan until

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Fig Crostini with Bacon and Ricotta

David and I don’t go out for dinner very often. We reason that we eat better and cheaper at the restaurant we call home. It’s mostly a good plan, except sometimes you just need to get out of the house. If you’re lucky, you find a place as good as your own. A few weeks

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Grilled Caesar

Sharon flew home for Labor Day weekend, so I planned a homecoming meal with all of her favorites. I knew it wouldn’t be a Sharon Anderson Damelio dinner without Caesar salad, a dish that ranks high on her Top Ten list. I planned to make it the way I always had—whole hearts of Romaine leaves

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Tinto de Verano: The Easiest Cocktail You’ll Ever Make

I love red wine. But I have to admit that splitting a bottle with Anthony on a weeknight (or any night) is becoming impossible. I don’t know if it’s my advancing age (yup, all 28 years) or just a shift in my body, but I simply cannot put away half a bottle of red anymore.

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Seven Layer Chicken Tostadas

  It’s a quiet here as we get ready for Labor Day. Sharon’s flying up from Atlanta for the weekend,  and on Monday we’re celebrating a couple of late-August/early September birthdays. We look forward to sharing what we cook up for those celebrations. In the meantime, we’re keeping it simple, and so we offer up

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Penne with Broccoli Pesto

By the astronomical calendar, summer is June twentieth through September twenty-first, but for me as a child summer always began Memorial Day Friday when weary teachers dismissed us itchy kids for three full months of summer vacation. When we had watched enough TV, spent days at the pool, and generally played ourselves out, it was

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The Bowling Bomber

A few years ago a friend of ours who winters in Florida started sending us a case of grapefruit juice in little cans for Christmas each year. David and I aren’t big juice drinkers, and so some years we hadn’t finished the previous year’s supply by the time the next case arrived. But then we

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