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Locally Carei: Understanding nutritional needs for athletes

As many of you know, I am also track and cross country coach. And this time of year, parents are concerned with the nutrition of their scholar athlete. They also have questions about the value of local, farm-raised produced products vs. store-bought products and the effect on their ...

Cook This: Shereen cooks up Italian pot roast

Growing up, we often ate stracotto for Sunday dinner. Stracotto is an Italian pot roast thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ cooked for a long period of time. (Actually, stracotto means overcooked.)Pot roast typically consists of boneless chuck, which needs a long braising time to break down the tough connective tissues, ...

Locally Carei: Creating Mardi Gras dishes

Mardi Gras brings visions of two things, parades and food. Ok, there are some other things, but this is a family newspaper. And food, is where I come in.A few years ago, my wife, Stacy and I had the pleasure of visiting New Orleans a week before Mardi Gras. My cousin, Joe Toomy, a congressman ...

The Family Table: Make time, make it ahead

A few months back, we added a chest freezer and a downstairs refrigerator to our home.I wondered, quite honestly, how I’d fill either. We’d existed for several years with the lone fridge with its two freezer drawers in our kitchen. I kept both filled; often to the brim with cooked ahead ...

Locally Carei: Mom’s Magnificent 7

When my mother passed away recently, my sister compared her to Mary Tyler Moore, who had died that same day. I had compared her to Carol Burnett. We were born nine years apart, and by the time I had come along, there were several others in the middle. I guess six kids turn you sarcastically ...

The Family Table: Under pressure

If I invested based on the products I use most, I would own stock in slow cookers, glass canning jars and soup ladles.Anyone who regularly reads this column knows my slow cookers are like the fourth, fifth and sixth children in our home.Because I don’t always have time to stand at the stove ...