Feijoada: Brazil’s meat and bean classic with ritual sides
Readers share tips for making feijoada using smoked meats and pork parts, tracing its roots to plantation days. Anita Truetiner recalls a 1950s cookbook aiding newcomers with English Portuguese translations, while Vera Azenha notes the ritual serving of feijoada completo.
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Susan Rombard
Brazil
Anita Truetiner
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Hospital Dos Estrangeiros
Stranger’s Hospital
Rio
Christopher Idone
Beets and cookies mix from readers share recipes and tips
Readers offer notes on beets roasted and prepared fresh with mild sweetness and on cookies that spread. advice includes oven temp tweaks and chilling dough. A request for a blueberry dessert recipe from a Dream Whip boxed source is mentioned with contact info for Linda Cicero at Food Herald.
CouvE Minera With Sliced Cabbage and Bacon
A recipe for couve ministra using one medium head cabbage and finely chopped bacon. Cabbage is boiled five minutes, drained, then sautéed with bacon until wilted and tender. Season with salt and pepper. Makes eight servings with 59 calories each and details on fat protein carbs fiber and sodium.
Fencada Soup Recipe With Mixed Meats and Beans
A hearty Caribbean style bean dish combines dried black beans with salt pork jerky beef linguica chorizo ham and spare ribs. Soak beans and meats overnight, simmer 2 to 4 hours, mash a cup of beans into the pot for thickening, season with parsley salt and pepper, yields 12 servings with high fat and sodium per serving.
Veggie treats for kids at parties and gatherings
A Concord column discusses kid friendly party foods, stressing safe easy munchies and cost effective options. It cites Lucy Moll’s The Vegetarian Child and recipes like celery with peanut butter and raisins and spider cookies. It notes adult foods can stay separate and pizza remains a crowd pleaser.
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Concord
N.H
Lucy Moll
Pergee Books
Pretty Party Punch and Silly Spider Cookies Menu
A child friendly recipe card shows two treats, Pretty Party Punch and Silly Spider Cookies. Punch blends grape juice pineapple juice orange juice sparkling apple juice and grapes. serves eight cups. Spider cookies combine peanut butter crackers pretzel sticks and raisins to form eight-legged critters.
Stuffed Celery With Raisins Preparation Notes
Cut each celery stalk into two pieces. Mix nut butter cream cheese and honey then fill celery cavities. Push raisins into the filling for each piece. Makes several pieces.
Dear Abby s college dating and family dilemma
On campus dating tips from Dear Abby advise being yourself and creating chances to interact with students. A reader asks about a Marine boyfriend returning from Iraq facing stress and an unresponsive partner while another probes legality of porn photos in a drugstore. Abby suggests seeking help for PTSD and police guidance if underage images are involved.
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Abby
Christian College
Mr Right
Mr. Right
Andy
Iraq
Smalltown
USA
Dean
UPS
Dear Amy column bites and awkward romance advice mixed
A reader’s letters cover wedding ring timing myths with a Frodo joke, porch theft woes, and a coworker flirting at a homeless shelter. Amy urges direct talks and practical steps, including notifying UPS and addressing aunt and cousin concerns, while a volunteer seeks help to redirect a flirtatious coworker toward a friend.
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Linpa
Cicero
Anita Truettner
Meta
Jean Helf
Linda Cicero
Foodherald Co
E’o Food
Herald Plaza
Mim
Fencada
Joanne Stepaniak
Vesanto Melina
Contemporary Books
Veterans Administration
Dear
Dear Abby
Abyail van Buren
Jeanne Philips
Pauline Philips
Los Angeles
Abigail van Buren
Amy
the Mal
The
Institute of Anxious Girlfriends
Amy Dickinson
Frodo
Community Theater
Mina
Harry
Monica
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