By LANIE PIMENTEL
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A few weeks ago, I was given a ticket to our local Renaissance Fair. I was pretty excited because I’d never in my 28 years of living, had been to one despite there being one each year not too far from my house. But I guess it wasn’t my thing, or it wasn’t […]

By LANIE PIMENTEL
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Two words. Compound butter. Much like the lesson taught in first grade where the children would go around the classroom naming compound words such as classroom, campground, and playground, the lesson of making a compound butter is the same as the word. Taking things that exists separately, and merging them to make a […]

By LANIE PIMENTEL
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The artichoke, according to Wikipedia.org< is a perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean. The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud about 8–15 cm diameter with numerous triangular scales; the individual florets are purple. The edible portion of the buds consists primarily of the fleshy lower portions […]

Two weeks ago, as I was doing my research for my coconut article, I came across recipe after delicious recipe using this wonderful coconut as the star.  I decided that 1 week of coconuts was simply not enough.  There are tons of great desert recipes if you are a lover of coconut, and that my […]

By LANIE PIMENTEL
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So, you just found the last of the hidden eggs with your little ones, and you are sitting in the kitchen with three dozen crayoned, stickered and dyed Easter Eggs and you are thinking… now what?
Below I have compiled a list of recipes I would like to try today […]

By LANIE PIMENTEL
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Coconutsthe seeds of palm trees are most comely cultivated in South America and South Asia and are said to have a thousand uses! It is no wonder that most recipes that incorporate coconut into non-desert dishes are found on South Asian menus.  Especially Thai recipes. Yummy!
In my opinion, there are thousands and thousands […]