Just peachy and creamy By Marialisa Calta This is the summer to try a peach. Succulent, sweet, juicy peaches are in abundance, thanks in part (according to some news reports) to the drought that has hit many peach-growing parts of the country. Excessive rain, one grower told a TV reporter, makes the peaches watery and less […]
Home Country “One of these days,” said Pete, out behind the sale barn where he works, “I’m going to be elected emperor, and then, by smash, I’ll change everything around.” Now several of us from the Mule Barn coffee shop’s philosophy counter were out back there with Pete to look at an Angus bull that […]
Keep on quinoa STIR IT UP! by Marialisa Calta Quinoa is one of the happiest-looking foods around. I think it looks like happy, teeny bubbles — Champagne bubbles. We all should be happy to have quinoa (“keen-wah”) on our plates. Kim Rizk, who wrote “Hay Day Country Market Cookbook” (Workman Publishing, 1998), called quinoa “a nutritional […]
By Cindi Shroyer So this guy takes his dog to the vet. Seems the dog’s eyes are crossed and the pet owner wants to see if something can be done. For the examination, the vet picks the dog up and takes a look. After a few moments the vet speaks. “Well,” the vet sighs, “I’m gonna […]
Fired friend needs space to deal with the pain SENSE & SENSITIVITY by Harriette Cole DEAR HARRIETTE: A friend of mine just lost her job, and it happened in a really embarrassing way. I feel so bad for her. She is a good egg, even though it’s questionable whether she was good at the job she had. […]
By Rebecca Mahoney Walter Williams is my neighbor and my friend. I got to know Walt a few years ago. He would drive around the neighborhood in his big white car, a perfect fit for his big wide smile and lanky frame. I’d be walking my laps, and he would stop the car to say […]
Occasionally I see lists of the “top 10″ most nutritious fruits and vegetables, but they’re never quite the same as each other. How much should I pay attention to these kinds of lists? Trying to list the “best” fruits and vegetables is always going to vary depending on the criteria used. Sometimes those lists rank produce […]
ASK MR. KNOW-IT-ALL By Gary Clothier Q: Can you tell me when and why Hydrox cookies became Oreos? — M.D., Naples, Fla. A: Let me start off with a question: Do you know which cookie holds the title of being “America’s first creme-filled chocolate cookie”? If you said Hydrox, you are right. Hydrox was introduced […]