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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 10, 2012

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~ Robert Heinlein FOOD. GLORIOUS VALENTINE’S DAY FOOD. Time for Frugal Café’s second annual Valentine’s Day food and recipe showcase — this collection is just as creative and fabulous as was last year’s, if I do say so myself. [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 2, 2011

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, Please put a penny in the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you. ~ English traditional Christmas rhyme FOOD. GLORIOUS CHRISTMAS FOOD. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 30, 2011

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~ Voltaire FOOD. GLORIOUS FOOD. Ever so faintly, the promise of fall is finally in the air here in Arizona. My cooking endeavors will accelerate now that daytime summer temperatures are slowly dropping [...]

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