Category Archives: Kitchen Adventures

A 10-page menu 

Posted on April 20, 2025 by msw blog

If the menu is wordier than Gone With the Wind, you might want to reconsider. A truly great restaurant focuses on a select number of entrees, while a menu that spreads itself too thin, well, just doesn’t. It’s hard to trust … Continue reading →

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Cooking Quandary

Posted on March 9, 2025 by msw blog

What do you cook when you don’t feel like cooking? Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, … Continue reading →

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Buying Wine

Posted on December 22, 2024 by msw blog

Q: I’m hosting this holiday season and want to buy wine that’s good but doesn’t totally break the bank. But when I walk into a liquor store, I’m completely overwhelmed. Help! A: We get it: the towering shelves, the endless … Continue reading →

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Cooking

Posted on December 14, 2024 by msw blog

Everyone cannot always draw, sculpt, paint, or practice the traditional means of creativity—but everyone must eat. Cooking, or the practice of preparing food, is the most accessible, engaging, and understandable form of creativity. It is a practice born out of … Continue reading →

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Hostile Takeover

Posted on December 5, 2024 by msw blog

For the past 15 years, since our grandparents died, my mom and her sister have hosted all holidays, alternating years. For about the past five years, they have complained relentlessly about how they “do all the work,” and wonder aloud … Continue reading →

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