Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

It’s a win-win for the community as teens from the Boys & Girls Club start the Rise and Shine food co-op. Twice monthly, fresh fruits and vegetables and staples are made available to those who need a helping hand.

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Not a waste of time, but often good reading on different foods and themes by home cooking enthusiasts.

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 I’ve got a mess of these silicone spatulas for all the baking and sauteeing I do. They withstand up to 800 degree-heat and they scrape every last teeny bit of batter out of a baking bowl. They flip stubborn cornbread rounds out of a pan, beat batter, and prop open oven doors for meringues.
Round handle makes the [...]

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Maybe I was in a fun mood, or they just hit me right, but I was laughing out loud at the kicky designs of the Animalhouse line of kitchen tools I found at Pier 1.
Priced from $5.99 to $19.99, they’re both fun and functional. Not all will be available at all stores; I found some of those [...]

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I like a good potato chip as well as the next muncher, I guess.
So when I was on a trip to St. Pete for, sadly, a funeral for a too-young friend, I stopped at a sandwich shop downtown and picked up a bag of Madhouse Munchies chips to go with our pretty-good sandwiches.
Two chips, then [...]

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