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A trip down memory lane: What food makes you smile?
I just recently remembered this snack my mom used to make us kids, and I've promised my grand-kids I'd make it for them. Saltine crackers spread with peanut butter and a marshmallow. Broil until marshmallow is as dark as you like it. Kind of an indoor s'mores I guess, without the chocolate. I'm going to go make some now. I haven't had one in oh, thirty years or so.
Which is your ultimate comfort food?
Anybody but me notice that most of the above mentioned favorite foods are white? Same with me - my go-to is my mom's potato soup recipe, unlike any I've ever seen. I think it's a variation of something my Italian grandmother used to make. Put a huge chunk of butter in a pot of salted water, bring to boil, add diced potatoes, a 1/4 cup of rice, a handful of broken spaghetti and cook until it becomes one glorious pot of starch, then add pepper and as much parmesan cheese as your arteries will hold.
Mashed Potato technique. How do you mash your taters?
This isn't fancy - but it's a huge crowd pleaser and a life saver/time saver/space saver on holidays. I make a mashed potato casserole - the recipe was given to me in the late seventies when we lived in California. You can make it a day ahead of time and bake at the last minute. You make your mashed potatoes and add a couple of egg yolks and 8 oz of cream cheese and chives. Put in a souffle dish and it puffs up and gets a beautiful burnished color if you brush with melted butter and sprinkle with paprika. It's one of those recipes that if you don't make it, the guests will mutiny.
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Favorite foods: bread, avocados, salads, pasta, artichokes, tomatoes, blackberries, dark chocolate
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I'm a food writer in the Raleigh, NC area who got my start when I ran a gourmet to go shop and wrote The Last Bite, a newsletter for Very Vera (www.veryvera.com - see this month's Veranda Magazine). Dainty Morsel is the overflow valve. I also do motivational speaking on the subject of "Leaving the Safety and Security of Your Shell" and have a blog www.turtlemuse.com where I post chapters of a book I'm writing on the subject.