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Teacher gone wild: Summer cooking frenzy

Maybe it was the movie “Julie and Julia”, where a young wife cooks daily from a Julia Child cookbook. And watching   too many TV episodes of   Top Chef, Barefoot Contessa, Rachel Ray,   and Next Food Network Star (“I’m plating now,” I would shout to my husband from the kitchen).   Or simply   a desire to meet the special dietary needs of my family. The result was   a summer kitchen filled with the aroma of Three Pepper Quiche, Fruit and Oat Pancakes, Chili Con Carne, Scampi Linguini, Zucchini Bread, Pasta Salad Nicoise, Meat Loaf, Broccoli- Cauliflower-Carrot Bake, Salt-Free Pizza, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Egg Fried Rice, Chinese Almond Cookies, Lemon Curry Chicken Salad, Pineapple Fruit Whip, Cajun Pork Chop, Hot Fruit Compote, Barley-Rice Pilaf, Raspberry Streusel Muffins,   Sunshine Carrots, Herb Topped Fish, Moroccan Couscous, Country Biscuits and Gravy, Grilled Chicken Sesame, Cottage Cheese Salad, Strawberry Ice Cream , Chicken Veronique. All these I cooked or baked this summer