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Ruby Red Grapefruit-St. Germain Mimosa

Tray of Grapefruit St Germain Mimosas, Maureen Abood

By now it’s crystal clear that St. Germain tastes good with just about anything you can think of to pair it with. If you ask my brothers, it’s even better on its own, on the rocks, when late evening comes … Continue reading

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An Easter Brunch Menu

Alice's Easter Basket, Maureen Abood

Even though I’ve had Lebanon on the brain lately, there is one place and one place only that Easter memories take me. That is to Fostoria, Ohio, where I ate my first pillow soft, yellow sugar-coated Peep. Alice made each … Continue reading

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Favorite things: Wooden Molds for Lebanese Sweet Bread (Kaik)

Kaik molds, Maureen Abood

The molded sweet is a long-standing tradition at the Lebanese table, a true and beloved trademark. Sometimes that sweet is a cookie (ma’moul), sometimes a sweet bread (kaik, KAH-ick). They are beautiful, these little works of art, their imprints like … Continue reading

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Lebanese man’oushe, za’atar flatbread

Manoushe 2, Maureen Abood

My brother Chris was the first to speak to me of the man’oushe. Every time he returned from a trip to Lebanon I wanted to sit him down and discuss, in detail, every bite of food he’d eaten. He was … Continue reading

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Raspberry Cream Scones with Rose Water Glaze

Raspberry heart scones with rose water glaze, Maureen Abood

I like to think of it as my first act of food writing. It was just a few sentences on the back of a postcard (I’ve loved postcards for a very long time), sent home to my family on my … Continue reading

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Apricot-Walnut Granola with Orange Blossom, and a new life

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I haven’t heard my father’s name spoken so many times in the 12 years since he died as I have in the last week. For the first time I truly understand, and I feel, the power of a namesake. It … Continue reading

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Apple butter, slow cooked

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I’m making a lot of an incredibly good apple butter these days, and it all started with the oatmeal. And habits. Which I haven’t always been great at forming. It’s taken some time and thought to recognize this about myself, … Continue reading

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Technique: How to core and peel an apple

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This week I’m asking a favor. This favor involves some work, the work of coring and peeling a whole lot of apples. I wish the fruit would just split apart with ease like an apricot so we could mindlessly slip … Continue reading

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Labor Day Weekend Breakfast: White Peach Pancakes

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I’ve waited in some long lines for good food. It’s really kind of embarrassing. When Mia Francesca was in its early years after opening in Chicago, there were no reservations, so if you wanted to eat there you had to … Continue reading

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Technique: How to peel a (gorgeous) peach

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Elaine Zawacki, my next door neighbor and babysitter on Wagon Wheel Lane, had a lot of tricks up her sleeve. She had to, when you think about it, since she was charged with trying to keep five wild kids at … Continue reading

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Ingredient: White Peaches

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I had traveled all day long to get to Vic, a town north of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. My destination was the retreat house of a group of Catholic religious sisters, where I’d be staying for 12 days while working … Continue reading

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Favorite Things: little pitchers

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You don’t have too look far in my mother’s homes to find little collections of things here and there. On Wagon Wheel Lane, she had a pretty line-up of miniature metal teapots on the window sill. On the piano, tiny … Continue reading

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