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B and I feasted on so many delicious dishes during our two-week Mediterranean cruise. Tapas and paella in Spain, pasta and cannolli in Italy, gyros and Greek salad in Greece and—my favorite—baklava in Turkey. We love ethnic cuisine, and completely overdosed on good food. And while it tasted great while we were eating it all, [...]

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This recipe couldn’t have come at a better time. My parents live across the country from us, and I had wanted to send my mother something yummy for Mother’s Day. And hey, my mother adores mangos! It’s her favorite fruit of all time. My family traveled a lot when we were growing up, and whenever [...]

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It’s a miserably dreary morning. The sky is completely gray and I can’t concentrate because of the sound of thunder and of heavy rain hitting the roof. It’s a far cry from the 63-degree spring-like weather we had yesterday. Hmph.
Usually I’d go for my Saturday run, a six-mile loop near our home that takes me [...]

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I eat 100% all-natural peanut butter every single day. I’m never without it…ever. If I don’t have it on toast for breakfast (which I more often than not do), I have a jar of it at work to eat it as a snack, with a banana, crackers or apple slices. Because I’m a vegetarian, it’s one [...]

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Is there anything better waking up on a cold, snowy morning, peddling downstairs in your PJs, whipping up a batch of homemade muffins…and then eating those piping hot muffins, straight from the oven, with hot cup of coffee, feet dangling from the kitchen barstool?
I’d say no. :)

And that is precisely what my sister and I did the [...]

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