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		<title>Fresh eggs make the best cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently re-discovered the joys of really fresh eggs. I mean fresh as in laid a day and a half ago. One can only assume the chickens that produce these gems are happy birds. They are semi-free range (out, about and unfenced during the day, sheltered at night). They eat all sorts of things chickens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isn’t it nifty — Mom visits the ’50s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tastes in foods go in cycles. If you look back by decades it might surprise you to realize how appetites for different foods evolve over time. So does their preparation. In the 1950s, the average American family ate three meals per day, on a more-or-less set schedule. Breakfast for many of us consisted of meat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decades of recipes, the old and the new collect over time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman who loves to cook collects a lot of recipes over decades of time. She takes family recipes with her when she leaves her childhood home (not counting going away to college) to make a home with her husband or “significant other” as may be the case. Single or married, she makes friends with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is for dinner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously. What do you serve people this time of year? We’re well into spring weather in Ohio. This means a climatic see-saw that goes up and down between freezing temperatures and the tropics. At 30 degrees we’re dressing in wool and layering; then the thermometer hits 80, and it’s shorts and flip-flops, for those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is that time of the year for rhubarb; the kids like ice cream on theirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhubarb finds its way into so many baked goods. It just adds a nice, tart taste to everything. Mom baked with her homegrown rhubarb often, and she never had trouble growing rhubarb. If you want to start your own rhubarb patch, plant the rhubarb one year and then use it the second year. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on spring with Salade Nicoise; I am ready for it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring quick — What’s the second word that comes to mind? Spring forward — Yes. We have another hour of daylight after work. There’s time to walk dogs while it’s still light. Daylight Savings Time is one of the best fake-outs of all. We all know we haven’t really gained an hour overnight. But I’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s to life and scallops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My birthday is next month — the day after taxes are due. So far, I’ve never had a birthday that’s caused me concern or thrown me into a depression. I buy into the attitude that one’s birthday is cause for celebration, if for no other reason than the fact that it beats the alternative. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caramelized onions — a change for the better</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sometimes the same old routine gets to be too much. You feel like you’re plodding along in the same footsteps you trod last week and last month and maybe last year. A rut is forming as you walk the same path. The path is familiar and the rut is not altogether unpleasant. But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat healthy &#8211; Go green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greens I grew up on were “cooked to death” by good southern cooks. They were delicious — what could be slow-cooked for hours with a smoked ham hock and not be yummy? Throughout my childhood, I thought slow-simmered was the only way to eat greens. Everybody I knew ate greens that way. When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diabetic diet is healthy for everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother began dealing with high blood sugar in her mid-80s, as did her mother. I have been on various pills to lower my numbers, watched my diet (off and on), and exercised (again, off and on) for about 15 years. That does not mean I was in my mid-80s 15 years ago, and am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need comfort food? Try Johnny Marzetti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Someone I know recently described a workplace situation where intimidation and disapproval had the effect of forcing an employee out of a company. When she spoke of the situation, she made the comment, “Hurting people hurt people.” In other words, sometimes people who have bad things going on in their lives tend to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festivals: They’re not just for summer any more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; So, it’s still January. We know that because last week we had a day that started out at 6 degrees — whose temperature rose to a high of 13. We’ve put the holidays away. The tree needles are out of the carpet in the living room. Hopefully friends and family have been thanked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good soup warms a long month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January is here. On the surface, there’s not much to recommend the first month of the year, except Heather’s and Rodney’s birthdays. No glitzy holidays. It’s cold and windy. Daylight’s still at a premium. Everyone’s still pudgy from Christmas and New Year’s. I can’t think of anything much worse — unless it’s February. No, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s to wine in savory pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a humorous e-mail that occasionally pops up in my inbox. It offers a tongue-in-cheek comparison of advice supposedly given by Martha Stewart, guru of all things domestic, and Maxine, the irreverent cartoon character created for Hallmark by John Wagner in 1986. Most women are a combination of the two opposite types. However, I’m firmly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moneybags for everyone start the new year off right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year. Jackson the Hound Dog and I were the first downstairs on Tuesday. Thus we began the first day of 2013 together — just like most days in 2012. Our early mornings are quiet. I feed Jackson, then read the paper while he sleeps off breakfast at my feet. Jackson’s not a totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom trades turkey for lobster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanukkah is upon us — can Christmas be far behind? It’s the last month of the year, when every week zips by faster than the one before. Like a freight train with no brakes, the days go by in a blur. There’s baking and candy making to be done, lists to make and items to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Tis the season for fruitcake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Christmas is coming O, the happy time! Christmas is coming Sing a merry rhyme! Tell me, What is Christmas bringing? Love and joy and gay bells ringing With a golden chime!” &#160; Closer to Christmas this is the way I’ll feel. I’ll be all set for my family to celebrate the season together when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Thanksgiving leftovers shine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How was your Thanksgiving? I hope you had lots of family around a big table loaded with good things to eat. If your dinner was like ours, you cooked ‘way too much — on purpose. Half the fun of the Thanksgiving feast is the leftovers crammed into next day sandwiches, casseroles and turkey soup. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving clichés make great traditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mom's pecan pie recipe ]]></description>
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		<title>Out with the campaign, in with the holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda C. Eriksson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election is over — no more political calls on my cell phone. No more mailers with their messages in four-color process, full-bleed color (that means color from edge to edge — that’s expensive). It was a nasty campaign, full of rhetoric, rumors and recriminations on both sides. I’d like to know who decided making [...]]]></description>
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