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The Family Table: Cooking without red meat

We gave up red meat for Lent.Well, Mike and I did.And since none of the three kids who make their home with us do the cooking, theyÎÞëÊÓÆµ™ve given up red meat by proxy.IÎÞëÊÓÆµ™ve never been a huge fan of chicken. Pork (bacon aside ÎÞëÊÓÆµ” because bacon is never a bad idea) is OK once in a while, and when I ...

Locally Carei: Understanding nutritional needs for athletes

As many of you know, I am also track and cross country coach. And this time of year, parents are concerned with the nutrition of their scholar athlete. They also have questions about the value of local, farm-raised produced products vs. store-bought products and the effect on their ...

Cook This: Shereen cooks up Italian pot roast

Growing up, we often ate stracotto for Sunday dinner. Stracotto is an Italian pot roast thatÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s cooked for a long period of time. (Actually, stracotto means overcooked.)Pot roast typically consists of boneless chuck, which needs a long braising time to break down the tough connective tissues, ...

Locally Carei: Creating Mardi Gras dishes

Mardi Gras brings visions of two things, parades and food. Ok, there are some other things, but this is a family newspaper. And food, is where I come in.A few years ago, my wife, Stacy and I had the pleasure of visiting New Orleans a week before Mardi Gras. My cousin, Joe Toomy, a congressman ...

The Family Table: Make time, make it ahead

A few months back, we added a chest freezer and a downstairs refrigerator to our home.I wondered, quite honestly, how IÎÞëÊÓÆµ™d fill either. WeÎÞëÊÓÆµ™d existed for several years with the lone fridge with its two freezer drawers in our kitchen. I kept both filled; often to the brim with cooked ahead ...

Locally Carei: Mom’s Magnificent 7

When my mother passed away recently, my sister compared her to Mary Tyler Moore, who had died that same day. I had compared her to Carol Burnett. We were born nine years apart, and by the time I had come along, there were several others in the middle. I guess six kids turn you sarcastically ...