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Locally Carei: Pierogi — versatile pocket pie

Growing up in a predominately Italian town in Southern New Jersey, I do not remember eating hlushki and halupki. But, pierogi was a different story. We had them enough times to be up there as a favorite childhood food. And they continue to be so.Of course, ours were of the most popular American ...

Morsels: Monkeying around with bananas

My family is bananas about bananas. Whether in cakes, muffins, cereal or all by themselves, bananas are a staple in my house.Even our cat, Daphne, goes ape over them. The least social of our four felines, Daphne somehow knows when a banana is about to be eaten: She comes running from one of her ...

The Family Table: Dishwashing dread

Everyone has a household chore they dread. For me, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ dealing with dishes – in any capacity.We have a mighty fine dishwasher that gets put through its paces several times a week. It cleans and dries for me; the effort is minimal. But I look at the machine that does these things with the ...

A pasta dish that brings out the earthy flavor of mushrooms

We wanted to create a pasta dish that brought out the delicate, earthy flavor hiding in supermarket mushrooms. We selected cremini mushrooms, which have a meatier texture and a more intense, woodsy flavor than button mushrooms but are still readily available.Butternut squash heightened the ...