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About floricooks

I cook; I feed; I eat

A brain freeze and a sandwich to go, please

Posted on March 10, 2012 by floricooks

This post was going to have a couple of photos with it but though I followed all of the prompts exactly, the upgrade to IOS5.1 did not go smoothly. I spent part of the morning troubleshooting on my own, part … Continue reading →

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Clean out the refrigerator

Posted on March 5, 2012 by floricooks

More often than not when I was a kid Sunday supper was either hot dogs, tacos (with some exotic avocado), something off the grill or what my mother called “clean out the refrigerator”. When I came home tonight with a … Continue reading →

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The jury is still out

Posted on March 4, 2012 by floricooks

Sticking with testing recipes for the NCJW/LA cookbook I have a seriously weird one for you today. The title on the page that gave us pause was “Marge’s famous mustard ring”. For some reason this struck me as having possibilities… … Continue reading →

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Don’t say “ew” and “yuck” until you taste them…

Posted on March 2, 2012 by floricooks

I’m on a cookbook committee for the LA section of the National Council of Jewish Women, and a couple of the recipes struck us all as so odd that someone needed to cook them to know whether we wanted to … Continue reading →

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More about the olive curing

Posted on February 29, 2012 by floricooks

It was a fabulous weekend.  Most years Pasolivo does an olive oil pressing. I’ve never managed to get up there for that due to work conflicts, but my brother has gone every year. That’s his photo on the top of … Continue reading →

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