Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

Grandma Sara’s is back
If you remember Grandma Sara’s on Old Dixie Highway next to Good Samaritan Hospital, you’ll remember some seriously fluffy pancakes.
Those are back — along with a menu that is simply terrific for breakfast (all day – yay!) and lunch at her new spot at the old Murphy’s in Palm Beach Gardens.
We went [...]

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Keep checking back on my site today and you’ll find dozens of recipes for your big meal. To see all that have been published, go to the search bar and type in Thanksgiving and they’ll come up.
A Cooking Help Hotline
And don’t forget – you can call me on my hotline – 561-340-0820 – and talk to me [...]

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Making a roux with oil does work, but you can’t rush it. A recipe for Cajun pork stew from Bruce Aidells uses an oil-based roux.

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I have recently come home from North Carolina, where my partner and I caught up with several old  friends on a mini vacation. As usual, it was too short a trip and hard to leave the wide beauty of the mountains. Coming back to August humidity didn’t help.
One couple – he is a childhood chum of  my partner’s — owns the terrific Green [...]

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If I’m not getting myself into trouble, my friends are doing it for me. A friend passed my name along to another friend throwing a baby shower, and suggested I was the one to do her cake.
I am getting a reputation for quirky and fun cakes – definitely not the gorgeous, perfect ones.
So because this is a friend, [...]

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