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On Mother's Day, I like to remember the sweet chaos of working in a kitchen with my apron-wrapped mom. As children, we eagerly helped her measure, pour, dip, crack, stir, then slide the sweet doughy batter into a warm oven (then we fought over who got to lick the bowl and beaters!) Foodlore Library's resident folklorist and Queen banana bread baker, Ronda Walker Weaver, shares her stories about the legacy her mother passed down to her and her daughters: a legacy of cooking and serving others with food. She even shares her Mom's favorite Cowboy Cookies recipe!
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Challenging me is quite dangerous. I won’t back down. Unfortunately (or fortunately, you decide) one night while watching the Food Network, I heard a show host remark that the average American home chef has a list of 100 ingredients they use, and they rarely stray from that list.
The gauntlet was down!
Only 100 ingredients?
Surely I can do better than that!
I handed the sheet to my girlfriend, Sienna. She squinted, scrutinizing the faded menu closely. It was a standard, letter-size, tri-fold brochure, printed on both sides of gray card stock that was becoming limp with age.
“Wow! Where did you get this?”
“My mother found it in the barn the other day,” I said.
“These food prices are absolutely amazing.”
Doe and her two new babies
It takes a special kind of person to keep goats.
Goats are cute, friendly, and an enormous amount of fun. However, they are also destructive, moody, and (in)famously insatiable. Our friend George has not always been an avid capriphile (goat lover). It was my own husband who did the terrible deed of introducing George to these wonderfully sociable four-legged fiends.
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