COOKING WITH THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER
Comfort Food
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When the winter sky turns gray, cook something golden By Suzanne Martinson
fter two weeks of revelry with relatives in Michigan, where I never passed up a candy dish or a cookie platter, some onerous options emerge for squeezing into my swimsuit in the New Year.
• Spurn butter, sauce, pasta, cheese burgers and — of course! — fries. • Go half-hog and switch to any food with a nutrition label that bespeaks 100 calories or less. Unfettered fruit
If the cook wants to add some color to macaroni and cheese, chopped green onions make a nice garnish.
need not apply. Of course, there are munch-ables, such as raw cauliflower or broccoli, but they are binge-worthy only if accompanied by a dip.
•Never do lunch with a friend again, especially the dears who dare dine on dessert. Forget that. We only live once.
• Bid adieu to ice cream for breakfast. I still have visions of the homemade ice cream with hot fudge that I inhaled at my sister’s and her husband’s house.
Sadly, not one of these options appear either viable, or enjoyable.
• Skip the whipped cream and sugar in festive holiday coffees. Latte? Later. (My one calorie-quashing success is learning to drink my coffee black.)
I am advancing a sixth for holiday food withdrawal: comfort food. In my meat-potato-bread-ice cream (and pie) farm family, we didn’t do cot page 24
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