Rebecca Lindamood: Foodie With Family
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Foodie With Family: Feeding joy
The other day, after a protracted conversation about food, my little brother observed that my purpose in life is to make people hungry. As a food writer, there is something to that, but that's not the whole story ... I also feed them.
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Foodie With Family: Birthday meals (x5)
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Foodie with Family: Simple, tasty food
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Foodie with Family: Queen of Holidays
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Foodie with Family: Tea follows walk
- Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Foodie with Family: Essence of summer
I've rustled up my fingerless gloves and my woolen caps for my morning strolls. I'm thrilled that I'm no longer sweating buckets near (not over, perish the uncouth thought) my canning pots. In fact, I'm upping the canning program in order to help keep warm until my husband finally acknowledges that summer has flown the coop and fires up the woodstove.
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In the meantime, I will keep filling jars with little tastes of summer for my hibernating husband to put on his fresh bread. Jams and jellies are wonderful, but nothing beats cracking open a vibrant, ruby-hued jar of savory garden goodness when the brisk wind is blowing and the sky is gun-metal grey. Roasted Red Pepper Spread is just the thing to banish chills to the body or soul. You can't help but smile when you see the bright red jars with flecks of basil peeking out at you. And when you open it? It's everything wonderful about summer encapsulated in one little jar. The silky smooth, thick red pepper spread with the full taste — courtesy of tomatoes, garlic, onion and red wine vinegar — is at home dolloped on fried eggs, spread on toast, as a pizza sauce, or as a dip (either alone or stirred into mayonnaise or softened cream cheese). - Thursday, August 25, 2011
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Foodie With Family: Feeding DIY spirit
It is no secret that I am a big proponent of making things that many folks buy at the store. From the common (potato chips, bread, ice cream, laundry detergent) to the hard-or-impossible-to-find (furikake, candied jalapenos, game stock), home kitchen alchemy can do it if it's worth having or doing.
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Sometimes my efforts earn me admiration, but just as often it gets me a resounding, "Why would you bother when you can easily buy this fill-in-the-blank at the store?"
Here are some things you can try on your own: Chocolate Sauce, Never-Ending Vanilla Extract and laundry soap. - Thursday, July 28, 2011
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Foodie with Family: Veggie burgers
The recent heat wave made cooking a real joy, didn't it? There is nothing I love more than standing over a steaming pan of whatever stirring for an hour when the temperature is in the 90s or — horrors — higher and the humidity is near 100 percent. I lie. Like a dog. These black bean burgers pull together faster than you can order take-out. Crispy and deep-brown on the outside, these satisfying burgers pack a serious punch in the taste department. Just slightly spicy, studded with sweet corn and topped with creamy avocado slices and hot sauce, these substantial veggie burgers are going to please even the most entrenched meat-burger-lover.
Continued ... - Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Foodie With Family: Dress up dessert
It doesn't take much work to turn a berry into a spectacular dessert. In fact, the less you do to it, the better it usually is.
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While I'm content to simply pop berries into my mouth by the handful, some occasions call for a dessert that's a little less casual. For those moments, you want a showcase for the berries rather than a big production.
Here are two recipes I love that leave me plenty of time for my new summer job: Umpiring the game in my front yard.
Honey Meringue Dessert Cups are the perfect foil to sweet or tart fresh cherries. Needing nothing more than a crown of freshly pitted cherries, these lovely golden meringue cups have the added benefit of being allergy-friendly. These gluten- and sugar-free beauties are sweetened only with honey.
Strawberry Mess is a glorious, messy, bursting-with-flavor tribute to strawberries at their peak of freshness. This is a favorite for kids of all ages. Watch their faces as they dig through the layers of juicy strawberries, softened graham crackers and whipped cream. Dessert doesn't get a whole lot easier than this. For some variety and Independence Day flair, throw in a layer of blueberries and serve this at your Fourth of July extravaganza! - Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Foodie with Family: Chicken wins prize
There is some serious fun going on around our household right now. We're winning contests. That's right. We're winning contests.
Continued ... - Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Foodie with Family: Rain isn't so bad
The rains have been pouring down — it seems — without cease since spring officially sprang. Plans, field days, playground time, garden preparation, planting and other long-anticipated things have been canceled due to weather. We've spent a good deal of time crabby, cranky, out-of-sorts and fidgety.
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But now, my "to read" list is shorter, and the boys have put a world of hurt on the competition in the "read the most books" contest at our local library.
Truly, can you think of a better way to spend the day as a family? Baking, eating, laughing, snuggling in plush blankets and reading. I do hope the rain stays a little while longer.
Complete column includes Rebecca's recipes for Ham and Cheddar Stuffed Soft Pretzels and Salted Caramel Popcorn with Dark Chocolate Drizzle. - Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Foodie With Family: High Pie with berries
I recently discovered that my youngest, age 5, has said something incorrectly for his entire life. While congratulating his older brothers on a fort they had built, he thrust his little hand in the air and yelled, "High Pie, guys!" As his mother, I was obliged to tell him the "correct" version of the saying, but I also mentioned that I liked his version better. Honestly, it's brilliant. What's better than pie? I can't think of a more suitable exclamation of excitement. Baking and serving foods in Mason jars has been all the rage lately and for pretty good reason. Fruit pies to pot pies to custards to cakes and everything else imaginable has been stuffed into the portable, reusable, heat/freezer/dishwasher safe canning jar. It's easy to store these convenient servings for later use.
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Foodie with Family: Sensational spud
While I still love my high-falutin' culinary projects, my evolution as a cook has moved me toward doing as little as possible to good things to coax as much of the natural flavor from them as possible. Hasselback potatoes are Swedish, but don't panic! Potato dishes of any nationality work for St. Patrick's Day because on March 17, the whole world is Irish. (Full article includes recipes for Garlic Hasselback Potatoes and Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Skillet Cookie.)
Continued ... - Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Foodie With Family: Feed your cold kids
What is it about sledding hills that brings out the Evel Knievel in children? My boys — who have a rather nicely developed sense of self-preservation — become more than just a little reckless when you stand them at the top of an ice-covered mountain with a sled in their hands. It's nice to welcome them home with Potato Roesti and Bacon Jam.
Continued ... - Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Foodie With Family: Flavored popcorn
Popcorn is the ultimate snack food. Portable, filling, inexpensive, tasty and customizable, popcorn can be eaten with just a little salt, or gussied up for company. Grab a heavy pan with a lid and a capacity of at least eight quarts, and I'll walk you through 15 of my favorite ways to eat popcorn.
Continued ... - Monday, December 13, 2010
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Foodie with Family: Indulge sweet tooth
I have a child with an incurable sweet tooth. Most of the year, I am on sentry duty preventing said youngster from sugar-toothing himself into trouble; Carrot sticks, hummus, hard-boiled eggs and peanut butter abound. This time of year, however, I'm a little more lenient.
Continued ... - Monday, November 15, 2010
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Foodie With Family: Break bread, pass it
Thanksgiving always has and always will equal bread in my brain. As a bread-loving child, it was my dream holiday.
Continued ... - Monday, October 18, 2010
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Foodie With Family: Quick! Cookies
In our home, a cookie jar is well-nigh impossible to keep filled. Lack of cookies is not an option. The solution is a stack of cookie recipes that can be turned out last minute to keep the whole crew happy.
Continued ... - Monday, September 20, 2010
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Foodie with Family: Fall's baking season
Baking, flannel shirts and frosting thieves. This is the stuff of fall traditions. Since it is now nearly officially fall, it is time to dust off some of our shelved-for-the-summer classics and give them some timely attention.
Continued ... - Monday, August 23, 2010
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Rebecca Lindamood: Hot days of canning
When produce is coming on great guns and it's time to give the canner its annual stress test, it is going to be the hottest stretch of weather in memory.
Continued ... - Monday, July 26, 2010
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Foodie with Family: Garden of Delights
I wandered out to the garden to check on progress one steamy morning last week and got the shock of my life. Cucumbers had arrived early. Very early. There were a lot of them. And cucumbers wait for no man. It was time to pickle.
Continued ... - Monday, June 28, 2010
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Foodie With Family: Peel me off ceiling
I am a total wimp when it comes to caffeine, much to the dismay of my parents, siblings and husband, each of whom has gradually replaced the plasma in their blood with super-strong coffee.
Continued ... - Monday, May 31, 2010
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Lindamood: Wiping away bad sponge cake
I have people coming over for dinner to celebrate my grandmother's birthday, I still have to clean, I told everyone that I would make Tres Leches cake and I should've known better.
Continued ... - Monday, May 3, 2010
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Foodie with Family: A healthy dessert. Really.
I am a baker. I am the sugarplum fairy, for crying out loud. Desserts are what I do. I have always been a little (read: a lot) snotty about healthy desserts. "You want a healthy dessert? Eat an apple!"
Continued ... - Monday, March 8, 2010
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Foodie with Family: Spring and camo casts
Geese aren't the only creatures in flight this time of year. My 8-year-old, Ty, attempted flight off of our loveseat last week -- aided in his endeavor by propulsion provided by his elder brother -- and landed in the local emergency room.
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