Jan Norris: Food and Florida

This Shepherd’s Pie, from Maguire’s Hill 16 in Fort Lauderdale  is a great recipe to make ahead, freeze, and have ready when you need a comfort food fix. It’s from my column today in the Sun Sentinel.
Freeze them in freezer-to-oven dishes in single servings.

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My good friend Pat Williams, whom I met doing a story that included Indian River Select juices, saw my Lost and Found recipe feature and wrote this to me:
I used to make this 15 or 20 years ago. Somewhere in my moves, I lost the recipe.
My best friend from high school visited me last week [...]

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Another cookie contest over — hallelujah! The Palm Beach Post’s annual Holiday Cookie Contest caused about 125 cooks to fire up their ovens (some entered more than one cookie; others baked as a team to enter one) in hopes of winning a $50 prize and get their photo and recipe in the paper.

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I love Brussels sprouts – and I’ll eat them with anything. It’s the big laugh among two of my closest friends — Scott Simmons (knows all things elegant glass) and Lou Ann Frala (photographic memory of any catalog item). I had an impromtu housewarming dinner at a new apartment a few years ago, and served [...]

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Friend and former Post library worker Michele Smith is looking for an old recipe: Can you help?
I’m looking for some help here. Once upon a time I had my great-grandmother’s pumpkin pie recipe – it’s made like an apple pie with pumpkin chunks and two crusts.
Well, I can’t find it and my Alzheimer’s Mom can’t seem [...]

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