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Candy was a big part of my youth, and a feature in two of my favorite books. The first was actually a series, The Baby-sitters Club.  I was a big fan of the character, Claudia, a sugar fiend who hid candy bars around her bedroom.   The other was a book from the 1981 Time Life Series, The [...]

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Looking for a new way to use your beefsteak tomatoes? Last week, I was. I didn’t want to have tomato sauce again, and I’m not one to eat tomato slices or wedges on sandwiches or in salads. So my eyes perked up when I read a recipe for Savory Muffins with Goat Cheese and Tomato [...]

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Sometimes I stumble onto a dish that is so amazingly good that I wake up thinking about it the next day.  This risotto is one of those dishes, and the only reason I found the recipe is because I wanted to cook with squash blossoms. I was at my uncle’s farm a few days ago, [...]

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I had another busy weekend in Ocean City – I know, I spend a lot of time there in August – and I have some errands and assignments to catch up on today.  So I’m leaving you with some of my favorite articles and recipes from the past week: Recipes of the Nerds from The [...]

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I couldn’t wait to make peach chutney pizza this week, thanks to my three inspirations: a person, a restaurant, and a peach orchard. First, there was Aarti Sequeira, the most recent winner of the The Next Food Network Star and the contestant I was rooting for all season.  Here’s a promo for her new show, Aarti Paarti:

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Ever since my family has discovered the food company Tastefully Simple, I’ve eaten a lot of beer bread made with their mix.  But even though this bread has a nice texture – a cross between cake and bread – and is buttery and salty, I’ve never tasted the beer.   That could be because my family makes their loaves with a light beer [...]

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Isn’t this a lovely picture of fried green tomatoes? I would love to take credit for putting this dish together, but I can’t. This creation actually comes from my favorite Ocean City restaurant, The Shark. During the summer months, fried green tomatoes are one of The Shark’s special appetizers. They bread their tomatoes, all locally [...]

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  There was a time when bacon was one of my food groups, probably because of our visits to the Bob’s Big Boy’s breakfast buffet.  I ate enough bacon there to last for weeks.  Then, my cousin, Michael, and I would load our plates with a big pile of twisted, crispy, oily bacon.  And I mean [...]

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Today is My Morning Chocolate’s one-year blogiversary! I know what I’m about to say is cliché, but I’m going for it anyway: I can’t believe a year has gone by so fast! Thank you so much to everyone who has read, commented or supported the blog, including many of the food bloggers on my Sunshine [...]

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I’m normally neutral about corn on its own – which is to say I don’t dislike it or feel immense pleasure when eating it – but there was one time when I really wanted to eat a fresh ear on its cob. My friend, Augie, was visiting me in New York, and he wanted to [...]

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