When my husband’s sister, Virginia, was alive, she kept the entire family amused by denying her age.  Some people call it “lying” about one’s age, but with Virginia, we always called it “being in denial.”  For example, one day at lunch, her daughter told us that she was having her 50th birthday the second day.  [...]

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More  gluten free flour choices for your cooking: Arrowroot flour: Arrowroot flour is ground from the root of the plant.  It is tasteless which make it an excellent thickening in any recipe. Buckwheat flour: The kernels can be pulverized in a food processor to make flour. This flour has strong nutty flavor and it is [...]

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Growing up I knew of two kind of flour; dark-whole wheat flour- or white flour -bleached-. For me wheat flour was the only choice because wheat was the grain that planted there. In Latin America, corn is easier to come by that wheat. The result is that cooking with corn flour is a staple in [...]

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when I grew up in Syria, my mother would bring home 20 artichokes at a time from the market so she could prepare them to store over the winter.  All of us in the family had to help her by peeling the outer leaves and cleaning the Achoke@ (the fine, silky hairs near the heart [...]

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