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…my home is warm, and everything is gluten-free! I know I have mentioned here before that I am now gluten-free.  It has been for a whole year.  That is so hard to believe.  It has been a miracle cure for some of the health issues that I was dealing with.  I also know that I [...]

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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.  It was a special time of food, fellowship, relaxation and thankfulness.  Now, I am moving on to Christmas.  There is much to do.  I’m getting older, so things take longer than they use to!  HA!  Today, I thought I would share a recipe with you that I found on [...]

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Many thanks to our co-worker for all her help and organizational skills!  We are pleased with the result!

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A Day in the Kitchen

I have been longing for a day in the kitchen to try out some new scratch recipes.  When in Japan, I have to cook from scratch if we want to eat some American food.  We don’t have the convenience foods in Japan that we have in the USA.  I have to say that I am [...]

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Comfort Food

One of my favorite foods is chicken and dumplings.  A few years ago, I found a wonderful recipe in the Diane magazine that is published by Curves.  My whole family loves it!  Now there is a small problem.  It has been determined recently that I need to be gluten-free.  I don’t want to go into [...]

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I have fallen in love with the Pioneer Woman’s cooking blog.  Recently, I tried the recipe for Sloppy Joes and we were not disappointed.  I used a little less butter and ground chicken instead of beef.  It is another keeper!  If you like cooking and swapping recipes, you might like her site, The Tasty Kitchen.  [...]

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In the Kitchen

It’s been rainy here lately and I decided to spend the day doing some things I haven’t had a whole lot of time for.  I saw a recipe for Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas the other day.  I love Mexican food and can’t get it here unless I make it, so I decided to give it [...]

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Nabe American Style

One of my favorite things to eat in the winter here is Nabe (gnaw-bay).  When the Japanese make it, they use a special pot on a portable burner on the table.  I make it like American stew.  If you are Japanese, you might not want to read this post.  If you do, you will know [...]

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…of winter break found me in the kitchen.  All the things that I didn’t make or eat due to all the sickness were made today.  I got out my grandmother’s cookbook and started with her famous egg nog.Next on the agenda was Coconut Cake, sometimes fondly referred to by me as Snowball Cake.For dinner, we [...]

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I intended to take a blogging break until after New Year’s, but plans have a way of changing.  Today we were to go snowboarding.  Next week, we were to go to my in-laws for a few days.  Now the plans are to stay at home.  My daughter has the new flu.  My son has a [...]

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