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Cooked cabbage with apples and pecans in a green bowl
Cooked cabbage with apples and pecans in a green bowl

Food

Braised Cabbage with Apples and Pecans Recipe

This recipe first appeared on A Cook and Her Books blogspot in January 2012. Apples get to be the star of the show, no matter how you use them. They lend subtle sweetness and heft to Mulligatawny
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Green bowl with slaw made of cabbage, apples, pecans and cranberries

Food

Slaw with Apples and Pecans Recipe

This recipe first appeared on my A Cook and Her Books blogspot in January 2012. 'Tis the season when I'm blessed with
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Chicken and dumplings in a bowl with a spoon

Food

My Favorite Soup and Stew Recipes

This is a collection of my favorite soup and stew recipes. If I had to pick a favorite food category, I think it would
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Mulligatawny soup in a white bowl with rice

Food

Mulligatawny Soup Recipe

Mulligatawny, the richly flavored Indian-Anglo soup is so much fun to say, it's almost disappointing to find out the
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Red apples on a tree

Food

Homemade Applesauce Microwave Recipe

This story first appeared on my blogspot November 5, 2011. Each fall, I'm blessed with a glut of apples, from
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Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on orange tithonia bloom

Garden

Grow Tithonia in Your Summer Garden

Make butterflies, bees, hummingbirds and your neighbors happy when you grow tithonia in your garden. This stunning
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Black eyed pea Cowboy Caviar in a bowl with tortilla chips

Food

Cowboy Caviar Recipe

This rustic salsa is sometimes called Texas Caviar. It was made popular in Texas by a chef and cookbook author named
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Fresh peach ice cream in a bowl with a whole peach

Food

Fresh Peach Ice Cream (HMFPIC) Recipe

If you hold Macon, Georgia, near to your heart then you know the acronym HMFPIC from the classified ad placed in the
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Flower pot with sweet potato vine, caladiums, asparagus fern and spikes

Garden

Late Summer Flower Pots Update

It's early October in my zone 7b, Atlanta-area garden and as I walk about the property in this exquisite (if lamentably
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Red and yellow cherry tomatoes in a white bowl

Food Garden

Cherry Tomato and Basil Saute Recipe

I love to grow cherry tomatoes in my garden. I prefer a steady supply of sweet bite-sized fruit to the
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