We will begin today with the comment of a certain husband, who told his wife that her attendance at our Wednesday newspaper food discussions "benefits my dinner table."
So there's a lovely prescription for surviving pandemics. Grow things, think beyond the expiration date, celebrate the abundance nature provides, and be neighbors who share.
Let's settle down comfortably across our kitchen tables, unmasked at least in the distance, and see what's cooking.
Finally we get ready to turn the last page of a pesky year. And in that spirit, as if we were around a dinner table together, I will ask one of two questions.
We occupy ourselves with holiday preparations - or with dreaming of celebrations not yet visible on the far horizon.
As days grow shorter for a little longer, the well-lit kitchen may be a safe place for you to practice loving other people, even if the people are 6 feet beyond you.
Three more 2020 columns follow this one, and the Fare Exchange 2020 file still contains unsolved mysteries. Readers may have sent one recipe answer for a question that has a variety of solutions. Please fill in a blank or two if you have recipes for easy yeast bread, rustic bread, frittatas and crustless quiches, a rich banana bread like the one sold by Chocolate Heaven, and gluten-free pie crust.
We've made it to the last month of the year nobody wants to linger. Your challenge here is simple, from D.L., for "oatmeal cookies or muffins or any baked goods that call for oats."
Good morning, you here on the eve of thankfulness (so may every eve be: a preparation to be grateful).
Good morning, readers.
