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a favorite blogumn by Roya Hamadani
Roya Says: I picked this entry because it’s a great dish from my Persian heritage, and because I love the idea of bottling leftover cereal milk on a commercial scale.
From October 15, 2008
I’ve spent the last three days visiting family in Boston, sharing shrimp toast and candy apples and barbecued [...]

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a blogumn by Roya Hamadani
Poutine needs to come to America, people.  What is poutine, you ask?  It’s a French Canadian formula for a yummy good time: French fries + fresh cheese curds + tasty chicken or turkey gravy = happiness.  The cheese curds and gravy are added right before serving so the whole thing doesn’t [...]

Summer colds pose a particular problem when you live in a place where breathing in July is akin to breathing through a wet sock.  Mucus and humidity make a winning combination if you think swallowing is for suckers.  Who needs oxygen and food anyway?
Drinking tried and true remedies like hot tea and steaming chicken soup [...]

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a blogumn by Roya Hamadani
A good dessert is a lot like a hot date: good-looking, delicious and easy.  Three of my top choices are cake in all its myriad forms, pudding luscious pudding, and sweet ripe fruit.  Trifle is a dessert that manages not only to combine all three of my loves in an easy [...]

I am not the kind of person for whom happiness comes easily or naturally.  Give me a good thing and my mind will do its very best to run it into the ground with constant thoughts of anxiety and mistrust.  Negative obsession feeds my insomnia, which feeds my groundless fears.  Whether these behaviors are learned [...]

“Rather than the girl boys got crushes on, I was the girl they asked to deliver their messages to the girls they got crushes on.” Click on the pic to read the rest of Roya’s THEN and NOW story over at 32candles.com!

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a blogumn by Roya Hamadani
Hobo pie isn’t exactly a dessert name that inspires confidence.  It kind of sounds like some canned fruit thrown into a pie tin and covered with a leftover pancake.  A quick recipe search confirmed my suspicions; hobo pie is generally white bread surrounding a sweet or savory filling and toasted over [...]

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a blogumn by Roya Hamadani
The secret of making good iced tea is much like one of the secrets to happiness, namely, the avoidance of bitterness.  Good iced tea isn’t weak, but isn’t bitter either.  Rather than steep the tea longer, use more tea to increase the strength of the flavor.  A good rule of thumb [...]

Some foods aren’t just fun to eat, they’re fun to say, like Johnny cakes.  Johnny cakes, Johnny cakes, ooh Johnny Johnny cakes!  I do have good friend named Jonny, but sadly he is not the type of person who would respond well to having the word  ”cakes” added to the end of his name.
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I like meat.  Yes, I am a very happy little carnivore.  I like my meat pink, still bleeding, oozing warm red yumminess from its center onto my mashed potatoes, dying them pink.  Some people find this very disturbing.  To them I say, I am sorry.  I am sorry you will never enjoy the sheer bloody [...]