Basic Tomato Sauce Makes 4 cups 4      tablespoons olive oil 6-8 cloves garlic, mashed 4      cups crushed tomatoes 1/4  cup chopped fresh basil, or 1/2 teaspoon dry basil salt and pepper to taste -In a heavy saucepan, place the olive oil and the garlic and cook over medium heat until you sear the garlic but [...]

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Could a dish cause war? I would say hummous can. Almost everyone I meet brag  to have the original recipe or claim hummous as a native dish. Well, allow me to join the crowd. I use the same recipe that my mom used. My mom would place the dry garbanzo beans in large bowl and cover [...]

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This blog will be about food, love, and my husband, and I hope you will enjoy all three subjects.  There is a  movement in the United States I’ve read about, called “the slow eating movement.”  Apparently the objective is to take back America from fast food eaters, and to try to restore the enjoyment of food and [...]

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As I was telling someone the other day about my daughter’s refusal to try different kinds of food, but that she did try an egg roll the other day in a Chinese restaurant.  I finished my story by saying, knock on wood.  Which prompted me to begin thinking of such phrases that I’ve heard growing up [...]

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Bulgur and Garbanzo Beans Pilaf 6       tablespoons olive oil 1       medium onion, chopped 1       16-ounce can diced tomato with juice 2       cups water 1        cup cooked garbanzo beans 1 1/2  cup coarse bulgur wheat #3 salt and pepper to taste -In heavy pot, heat the olive oil.  Saute the onion in the olive oil until [...]

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