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Month: May 2025

Free-Style, Easy Tuna Salad

With the heat of summer rolling in, sometimes you just want something good and easy for lunch or dinner. Great news! Breaking out a can of tuna can help with that! Below are free-style recipes for easy tuna salad and various ways to serve it. This tuna salad recipe...

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A Poisonous Palate by Lucy Burdette

Food critic Haley Snow receives an intriguing email from a writer, Catherine Davitt. Catherine is coming to Haley’s town with a dual-purpose in mind: 1) to do research for a book on Ernest Hemingway’s wives  2). To solve the decades-old mystery of the disappearance...

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Patriotic Oldies for Memorial Day & July 4th

Every year I re-post this song list and hope it makes you proud to be an American. Some songs are somber reminders of those who fought for our liberties. Other songs are just plain, good old-fashioned fun patriotic songs. Ssgt. Barry Sadler’s 1966 Ballad of the...

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Easy Sausage Sandwich (and budget stretcher)

As a kid, I used to love going to local fairs and carnivals. Loved the cotton candy, loved the kettle corn – and loved those overstuffed sausage sandwiches! Today, you can still grab a package of sausage at your local grocery store. Not only is there beef and pork,...

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Vice and Virtue by Libby Klein

Looking for a cozy with a different spin? Unique setting? Quirky characters? Heart and humor? Than look NO further than Libby Klein’s fabulously fun and engaging new mystery: Vice and Virtue. Meet Layla Virtue, a “pushing” 40 recovering alcoholic, wanna-be rocker...

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Luscious Lemon: Easy Recipes & Ideas

Lemons. Boring? Never! This sunny, brightly colored fruit can boost so many recipes and drinks. One should always keep a fresh lemon (or two) on hand. Here’s why: – When making scrambled eggs or an omelet: squeeze a little fresh lemon into the mixture to bring...

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