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By day I’m chairman and CEO of the largest independent publisher left in America. By night I’m simply M.O.M. (which stands for Mean Old Mom). I’m a writer, cook, organic enthusiast, romance novel lover, and country music fan who does yoga.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Top 10 Things We Can All Be Thankful for in America
I know it’s after Thanksgiving, but it’s never too late to be thankful. And 2009 feels like it’s been a really, really hard year. Still, I’m wondering if I can come up with a list that we can all agree …
How to Make Amazing Gravy from Scratch
Gravy, real gravy, has to be one of the best foods on earth. It makes everything taste better (rice and gravy, potatoes and gravy, stuffing and gravy, bread and gravy, gravy and gravy…yum!). Gourmet machinations just mess it up. It’s …
Posted in Food & Recipes
Tagged Food & Recipes, gravy, Kids, main dish with meat, Top 10 List
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Recipe: Cheesy Cowgirl Cornbread
Well, I was going to write about making pumpkin pie today, but a few of my Facebook friends have asked that I share the recipe for Cowgirl Cornbread. (You can find pumpkin pie tips, and other easy pie recipes, on …
Stuffing Wars: Mrs. Cinquino’s Recipe Wins Them All!
I grew up with my mother’s favorite stuffing, which is really “potato filling.” I never really liked it, and much preferred my grandmother’s Pepperidge Farm stuffing—even though she would put dried apricots in it. But I never liked either stuffing …
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Tagged Food & Recipes, holidays, main dish with meat, stuffing, thanksgiving
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The Cranberry Sauce Controversy (with Poll and Recipe!)
Generally, there are three types of people: Those who won’t eat cranberry sauce at all. Those who like it cooked and gelatinous. And those who prefer their sauce raw. I fall firmly into the raw camp. It is simply not …
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Tagged cranberry sauce, Food & Recipes, holidays, polls, side dish, thanksgiving
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How to Find and Cook an Organic Turkey
As Barbra Kingsolver writes so charmingly in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, turkey farming is a brutal business—unless you can find an organic, preferably small-farm, source. My mother raises turkeys every year on her farm, and the birds are surprisingly sociable, friendly, …
The Great Thanksgiving Countdown
If you are not hosting everyone at your house, consider yourself lucky. You don’t have to clean up the whole house, manage all the expectations, or think about whether or not everything can fit in your stove at the same …
