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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sunday mornings around here are usually an occasion for lingering over breakfast and the newspaper.  S is a great breakfast chef and always makes something delicious; flipping pancakes or scrambling eggs to the strains of our favorite Sunday tunes:  Charlie Haden and Hank Jones’s album Steal Away:  Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs.
To celebrate that impulse [...]

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Crab cakes anyone?

My husband S and my brother T are great friends.  One of the things they love to do together is cook.  As far as I can remember, the first food they conspired on were crab cakes, and for a long time they never made them except when they could do it together.
These days, though, S [...]

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The perfect present

Have you ever gotten the perfect present?  The one that makes you gasp a little when you open it; amazed that the giver knows you so well?  The one that you could never have picked for yourself, but when you see it you know it is “you?”
I got one of those this year.
Before I go [...]

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