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He encouraged everyone to eat less meat and I took that message to heart. I now eat a lot less chicken and pork and I've cut all beef out of my diet.

I like to make a lot of pizza dough on the weekends and then freeze it for the week. What is faster and more versatile than a pizza?

"Alas! You are the apple of my eye." I still have this one, I thought it was so funny. I love fortunes that aren't actually fortunes, but instead are odd compliments that seem to come from the cookie itself.

Like many others, my mother taught me the cooking basics. As a child, while all my friends were drinking kool-aid and eating frozen pizzas, my mother was teaching me how to can tomatoes from the garden or make a bechemel sauce. At the time, all I wanted was to enjoy a bowl of Capt'n Crunch with my friends instead of the quiche lorraine I ate for breakfast. Today, I wax nostalgic about those early cooking lessons whenever I fuss around the kitchen at my mother's house. I still consider her the best cook I know.

corn beef hash with a poached egg