Tag: family dinner
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Beef, Root Vegatable & Barley Soup
Rare snow has fallen in various places around the South today. My Facebook feed has been full of pictures of empty grocery store shelves in Columbia, South Carolina, Rhonda Faye’s weather updates from Raceland, Louisiana, and stories of friends making the best of it by scraping together enough snow for a snowball fight and sliding […]
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Smoked Chicken and Paprika Brunswick Stew
Cooler weather is on its way to the High Country. It is still warm enough to grill and eat on the deck, but I packed away my summer clothes tonight and have the hot tub cranked up and ready to go for the first really chilly night. And we are slowly transitioning from “summer food” […]
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Chicken Meatballs with Pasta al Pomodoro
My boys are both in high school now, and both are running cross-country. My older son is driving now so the two of them leave the house around 7:45 in the morning and are gone until 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening. I am hearing faint whisperings of an empty nest. At first I felt […]
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Teaching Teens to Cook: Turkey Sloppy Joe Sliders
For a couple of summers now, I’ve suggested that my boys (now 17 and almost 15) start learning how to cook. This summer, out of necessity, I’ve given them no choice. Over the past year, when I’ve been too busy or tired to make dinner, I’ve summoned them to the kitchen and insisted they stay […]
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