Category: Blog
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French Toast with Nut Butter and Jam – Easy & All in Pictures
You bet, this is easy – and darn delicious! All it takes is spreading your favorite nut butter and jam on a piece of cooked French toast either fresh out of the frying pan or warmed in the microwave to give you a topping that’s both flavorful and much more energy-sustaining that traditional maple syrup…
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Pan Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures
I don’t know about you, but I sure love the smell of butter, eggs, bread, vanilla extract and ground cinnamon cooking in the morning. Great stuff! Here’s what it takes to put together fresh pan cooked French toast. Click any picture on this page for a complete, freshly revised and more colorful step-by-step picture book…
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Oven Roasted Potatoes – Easy to Make, All in Pictures
Oven roasted potatoes are a great, less fatty but fully flavorful alternative to French fries and are darn easy to make. All it takes is a quick clean, cut, season, roast – and have at ‘em! Just a quick word about whether to peel or not to peel the potato skins. I recommend not peeling the skins…
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Easy and Safe Soft or Hard Boiled Eggs – In Pictures and Video
All right! Adios, snow – bring on spring! The weather’s getting better – yah! We’ve got a big holiday weekend ahead. Boiled eggs – either plain white or brightly colored – are gonna’ be centerpieces of kids’ dreams Saturday night and breakfast tables Sunday morning – and, yes, it takes a real man – or…
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Nut Butter, Yogurt, Fresh Fruit and Dried Fruit Topping – All in Pictures
Last time, I showed how to make almond, quinoa and flaxseed pancakes, shown below, that are a great energy-sustaining alternative to sugar “spike and crash” traditional flapjack pancakes. Here are the ingredients to make a nut butter, yogurt, fresh fruit and dried fruit topping that goes great on those pancakes – or any pancakes, French toast, or waffles –…
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Almond, Quinoa and Flaxseed Pancake – Picture Book Recipe
Do traditional flapjack pancakes, especially when they’re soaked or slathered with your favorite sweetener, tend to give you – or your kids – an eye-bugging, “take-on-the-world” energy spike followed not long after by a nose-diving, “UGH!” full body crash? You bet I know the feeling,..and it’s all caused by sugar. But why give up pancakes…
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Inviting Businesses to 16th Annual Westborough Earth Day Cleanup
It’s human nature. A clean town attracts business. Over the past few years, more businesses (H&S Environmental, Ted’s Montana Grill, Energy Federation Inc. and Green Park Mortgage) have participated in The Westborough Community Land Trust’s annual Earth Day cleanup. Here’s what Rt. 30 at Rt. 9 looked like before and after last year’s cleanup. This…
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How to Make a Warmly Comforting Vegetable Tian – All in Pictures
They say spring is on the way, but, wow, it’s been biting cold both in the morning and evening here in the Northeast. And, though there’s not a lot we can do about the temperature outside, we sure can do something in the kitchen to warm us from the inside out – all very easily.…
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New Sweet & Savory Power Tuna Salad Video
Been out for some great cross country skis lately right around the corner from where I live. And when I come back in, I’m soaked wet from the inside out and good to go for something darn flavorful and nutritionally sound to take a bite out of hunger. Recently, I posted a new step-by-step picture…