How old is too old for spices? “Experts” suggest many spices and dried herbs lose their potency after just six months. If you are like us, you have several go-to spices that you use often so replace regularly so they are always fresh. But we also have those spices we like to have on hand but use maybe once or twice a year (looking at you marjoram).
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Sometimes we just a need a meal that keeps giving. And giving. And giving. Baked ziti is an easy meal that makes for great weekday lunches for an entire week … especially if you have the kind of job where you can take a nap after eating it. The ingredient list is pretty flexible to use what you have on hand.
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Jump-off Joe was once a 100-foot-tall sea stack geological formation composed of sandstone just down the beach from us at Nye Beach. According to a recent article and photos in the Newport News Times, what remains is falling into the ocean.
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Susan and I have always loved crab cakes – we’ve even tried to make them once or twice. But now we live in the Dungeness crab capitol of the world – holy cow are there some seriously tasty crab cakes in the local joints around here, and we’ve been trying them all. Even the “worst” crab cake we’ve eaten out here is still the best we ever had before we moved to Oregon.
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I’ve been so fortunate that for my past two economic development gigs, I’ve had the opportunity to serve truly gorgeous regional of our country. In Michigan, my territory was Iron County, in the wester Upper Peninsula. Here, it’s Lincoln County, on the central Pacific coast of Oregon.
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Susan fell in love with this dish at the Bear Trap Inn in Land ‘O Lakes, Wisconsin (just about 20 minutes for our cabin in the woods). It was so peppery and lemony and crispy – truly amazing comfort food.
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