Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

Dips rule!
Everyone who sends me recipes for Super Bowl party foods sends in a dip recipe.
Go figure – you must love dips.
Think of what you’re dipping
Consider healthier dip-ettes, just to at least give lip service to the vegetables and grains out there:

Cauliflower and broccoli florettes
Yellow and red pepper strips
Green beans, raw or slightly blanched
Asparagus spears, raw [...]

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Welcome, 2010! Another year above ground – and another chance for good things to happen.
Here in South Florida, the ruby red shoe dropped last night at midnight in Key West, with Sushi, bedazzling in green, aboard. Maybe a couple seconds off, but there are few people there in any condition at that hour to count 10 numbers backwards. The [...]

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Never a Christmas passes that I don’t get a thrill from making cookies. My orange drop cookies, a family tradition, fruit rocks for the fruitcake lovers – all two of them, me included – pecan diamonds that thrill everyone, raspberry-almond bars, pecan sandies, turtles and more usually fill all my tins.
Simple sugar cookies
It’s the plain sugar [...]

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Here in South Florida, where I’m picking up all the coconuts that blew off my tree during the recent storm, I’ve been waiting for today’s weather like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for reindeer noises.
It’s dry. Humidity is very low – down around 35 percent – unheard of lately. And it’s time for serious candymaking [...]

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Annual latke contest brings out the winners and the slightly weirds
The flu knocked me out of  my slot as judge at this year’s latke contest held at the MorseLife Learning Center in West Palm Beach.
But the potato pancake cooks perservered in the spirit of competition.
Spinach latkes take the Gold…Spatula
Rebecca Berman, director of clinical nutrition at Morse, [...]

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