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Life in the Slow Lane – Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook

Americans are known throughout the modern world for their love of new technology in the mechanical and electronic realms. Any piece of equipment or tool that can do the job better and faster is immediately embraced and touted. So who could have predicted the success of a kitchen appliance that does the job more slowly? [...]

A Weekend of Cooking – Gardeners’ Community Cookbook

As part of the Soup’s On Challenge, I immersed myself in Smith & Hawken: Gardeners’ Community Cookbook this weekend and made several recipes over a two day period. This cookbook came about through a community effort of more than 350 gardeners from around the United States, including some well known professional chefs like Barbara [...]

The Piker Press – Article Published

I’ve been in a writing rut for months now. Call it exhaustion or burn out or just plain laziness … but, I haven’t been writing. Until last week, when I decided to write a food article called Bananas Anyone? for The Piker Press. It will be on the site all this week. Hope you’ll go [...]

Bread Making

I used to think I would bake fresh bread from scratch; kneading the elastic dough with flour covered hands; letting it …

Lo Carbs for the Holidays

 First Published on The Piker Press (http://www.pikerpress.com/index.cfm) 2004

Low Carb Dieting has become a banished word at …