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Homemade Basic Tomato Sauce

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:52:51 +0000

How we love our summer tomatoes. And spring tomatoes. And fall tomatoes. Our backyard tomato growing season in central Florida is spring and fall. It’s hard to keep our tomatoes going through the harshness of summer. Perhaps I’m actually a tomato instead of a person. I have a difficult time throughout the harshness of Florida...

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Kindness, Goodness and Fresh Apples (Recipe: Homemade Applesauce)

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:17:42 +0000

I just can’t pass up an opportunity to write about people who are kind, good and do right. Kindness and goodness is all around us. You see it in your family, neighbors and community. Displays of kindness and goodness are always precious and meant to be treasured. We teach those values to our children and...

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Homemade Microwave Popcorn

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Homemade Microwave Popcorn. A DIY version of everyone’s favorite snack. All you need is a small brown paper bag, popcorn kernels, oil, and salt. . Snacks are important actors in American culinary culture. We love nibbling on morsels. Personal preference dictates sweet or salty selections and the winner in the Little Debbie versus Cheetos battle....

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Being Neighborly (recipe: Friendship Cake)

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:15:55 +0000

It seemed to me that my Granny, Virginia Phillips, was always sharing food with her friends and neighbors. She would say, “I just can’t make spee-ghetty (spaghetti) without taking a boiler full out to Katherine’s. She loves it better’n anything.” What an act of love and kindness! Just because Katherine loved her spee-ghetty, she always...

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