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Slow-Roasted Summer Tomatoes

By marlyse | Published: Sunday, May 17, 2009

by Susie MiddletonIf you don’t have fresh thyme, you can use another fresh hardy herb like oregano or rosemary — or leave it out altogether. Source: Fine Cooking – (issue 66 page 60) Ingredients: 3 tablespoons oil, extra virgin 1 cup oil, extra virgin 5 pounds ripe beefsteak tomatoes (medium, about 18), stemmed but not [...]

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StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide

By marlyse | Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2009

This is a wonderful link to have, especially if you’re into cooking as I am… or the opposite and constantly are wondering about that last restaurant leftover you took home – can you still eat it or not? You’ll get questions answered such as : Keep It or Toss It? I Left Pizza Out Overnight [...]

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Swiss cookies countdown.

By marlyse | Published: Wednesday, December 24, 2008

“Badener Chräbeli”, “Totebeinli”, “Zimtstärne” and “Brunsli” [see picture] are the ones I picked for this years treat bags – mixed with clementines and peanuts in their shells. Some dried dates would have been good, guess I missed that one. This year I am keeping up with the cleanup of the kitchen and am now ready [...]

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      A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM ." He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM . Wake up." Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

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