I love to grow cherry tomatoes in my garden. I prefer a steady supply of sweet bite-sized fruit to the sometimes-agonizing wait for slicer tomatoes. Plus, cherry tomatoes are often indeterminate
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Food
My Hummus Recipe
If I still wrote corny headlines, I'd title this story "There's a Hummus Among Us." Quirky, right? Funny? I hope so.
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Tomato and Mozzarella Panzanella Recipe
Fresh tomatoes and stale bread make a lovely salad you must try every summer. Italians know it as panzanella. I think
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Sweet Pea 7 Layered Salad Recipe
This story and layered salad recipe first appeared on A Cook and Her Books blogspot May 17, 2010.
Contrary to what
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Mississippi Pot Roast Instant Pot Recipe
Pot roast is the kind of dish I make to remind my family that I still cook. We're now a household of 3, from an
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Quick Fig Dessert Sauce Recipe
Figs are one of the delights of my late summer garden. Like blueberries, figs are easy to grow in a home landscape, at
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Fig Skillet Cake Recipe
Be sure to read garden expert Shelley Cramm's guest post on growing figs in your backyard. Here's my companion piece, a
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Figs from Garden in Delight
Guest post by Shelley S. Cramm
Dear A Cook and Her Books readers – give a warm welcome to Shelley S. Cramm, author of
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Summer Vegetable Soup Recipe
First published on A Cook and Her Books blogspot September 30, 2012 with the title "Sufferin' Sucotash."
Whenever I
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Broccoli Quinoa Salad Recipe
I'm fortunate to work from home most days. But it's a trade-off, to be honest. I'm grateful that my mornings don't start
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