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Perfecting Yellow Summer Squash ~ squash is delightfully sweet and delicious and I've been doing it wrong, until now! When I was little my parents would insist we eat what was put on our plates; that's what baby boomers were taught. There were starving children in the world and we were lucky to have food so just keep it shut and eat it. The alternatives were (depending on which type of parents you had): you don't eat it, you go to bed. Or, you sit there until you eat it and the dreaded threat of no dessert unless you ate it and ultimately the follow through with that. So it was with summer squash. As a child I hated it. So much so I gagged on it. However later in life, probably in my teens I tried it again and it was if the flood gates of my taste buds opened up and my attitude toward squash changed. A 360 degree turn around! I could not get enough of fresh summer squash! Read more »

For those of you fairly new to the kitchen and cooking, this post is going to help you with making some really good and creamy mashed potatoes. And to those who already have it down pat, my apologies. Mashed potatoes are one of the easiest things on the planet to make and also something you can screw up royally if your portions are not correct. This post is designed to help eliminate that! Read more »