Andrea’s Recipes

I wish I could come home after picking up the kids from school and have time to cook a nice meal. I long for a calm, zen-like cooking experience each day, but instead I find myself chasing after my sons who prefer to run amok, trying to keep them from raiding the refrigerator and the […]

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Thanks to everyone who participated! This month our entries come from Brazil, Philippines, Netherlands, Greece, and the United States, and as always I have fun visiting the sites and reading the stories.
The news for this month is I changed the arrangement of the round-up a little bit, as you’ll see below. Trying to make it […]

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Thanks to everyone who participated in March! We have some wonderful dishes to sample from! I also want to send special thanks to a few people who have helped me with Grow Your Own.

Thanks to Susan of Farmgirl Fare for writing a post about Grow Your Own on her blog In My Kitchen Garden.
Thanks to […]

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One of the things I enjoy most about Grow Your Own is the variety, and we have plenty of that this month. We have 12 participants from Crete, Singapore, Philippines, Brazil, Australia, and the Unites States and we used 22 different homegrown ingredients in our dishes. How’s that for creativity?
I have couple quick announcements before […]

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Weekday morning breakfast is usually a quick affair for us with leftovers from the weekend or perhaps cereal with fruit. But today we woke up to ice on the roads and an announcement that schools were closed, so I decided to do something fun and make muffins. The recipe comes from Michael’s mother, a variation […]

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