Food

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column February 04, 2009

The big game is over. Does this signal the end of the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and, of course, Super Bowl eat-a-thon? Or does the Super Bowl signal Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Memorial ...

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FD: Wine Columnn January 28, 2009

Over the clatter of metal legs sliding across the concrete floor, the small pump wheezed and puffed as it sucked red wine from one glass jar and pushed it into another. Four of us — Sal Sassano, Dwight Marney, Brian Soule and yours ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column January 21, 2009

As promised, I am continuing this week with soup tips, hints and a few of our family soup recipes with, of course, crock-pot recipes in spite of the fact there was a featured article with recipes on slow-cookers on last week’s food ...

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FD: Wine Column January 14, 2009

Mid-winter is the time to slumber. As bears hibernate, my garden is buried under a foot of snow, flowers and vegetables awaiting the warm spring sun. The same is true in the cellars of most wineries. In the expanses of a winery’s ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column January 07, 2009

The decorations are down, returns have been made and the candy, baked goods and other holiday treats are but a memory or at least out of sight. Now onto a celebration of one of my husband Fred’s favorites: Let’s hear it for ...

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FD: Wine Column December 24, 2009

When an invitation came to attend a friend’s “Stray Cats” Christmas get-together, the third question (after “Where do you live?” and “What time?”) was, “What can I bring?” “Oh, I ...

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FD: Wine Column December 10, 2008

Once or twice a week, I slip down the stairs into Sal Sassano’s basement where our 2008 syrah is sitting in glass carboys, perched on wooden shelves like choir boys peeking down from the loft. The wine still is fermenting and ...

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FD: Dixie Burmeister Column December 03, 2008

Thanksgiving turkey and leftovers should be but a memory by now. If they’re still in the frig, say goodbye and toss ‘em. Due to Thanksgiving insecurities, however, I have enough cranberries in the freezer to last until National ...

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FD: Wine Column November 26, 2008

This is the holiday that wine lovers love to hate. You can’t cook a turkey or make the dressing and your gravy always turns out lumpy, so the family instead designates you the holiday wine steward. Suddenly, the squeeze is on. This ...

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FD: Contest brings feel of old-fashioned Christmas in Palisade

It all started at a Palisade Olde Fashioned Christmas meeting last year when the vision of building the Gingerbread House Contest to one with many entries and categories came into being and into my hands. A Gingerbread House Contest and ...

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