Lemon Lavender Chocolate Vinaigrette

I don’t often imbibe in creative cocktails – or cocktails of any sort. I’m more of a wine connoisseur. However, on a recent evening out, I perused the intricate and quite delicate cocktail menu calling my name at the corner table. The flavor combinations looked and sounded downright fantabulous. Although I selected my favorite red…

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Peek-a-Boo Lemon Cucumber Salad

Certain items grab your attention right away, while others leave you in limbo, or even unaware, until a simple gesture peeks around the corner and leaps forth with an unanticipated surprise. Garden fresh food flavors exhibit such characteristics.  Most of us have been reared with the all too familiar flavor compounds of supermarket purchased produce…

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Ooey Gooey Farm Fresh Eggs

Remember when I learned to poach an egg SOOOOO long ago? It seems like an eternity ago that I had my Perfectly Poached Egg experience and evening lesson in the food mecca of the PNW. I like steamed eggs, boiled eggs, scrambles eggs, whipped eggs, and ovas of all kinds.  But the poached egg, in…

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