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Tom Straub's Articles in General Family

  • Why Shop At A Farmer's Market
    Do you ever ask why different foods have a much richer flavor at certain times of the year? If you ever shop in a farmer's market, you will find different types of the most scrumptious foods, varying with the time of year. When local produce is fresh it becomes available for the farmer's market. One of the best kept secrets of chefs is that they know that if they buy the food at a farmer's market as well as at other vendors where local produce is sold, that it will really improve the flavor of their cooking.
  • Surviving Family Camping Trips
    Family vacations can be very stressful unless you plan in advance and make sure that all members of the family will have enough fun things to do when going on a camping trip.
  • Planning Your Camping Trip
    When it comes to planning your camping trip, you may feel overwhelmed with how much you will have to do ahead of time. However, you can do your planning fairly easily by using some simple strategies.
  • How To Keep Family Recipes
    Do you have a favorite holiday meal? Maybe your grandmother always serves her pineapple ham on Valentine's Day. Or, your mother may bake your children a special chocolate birthday cake, every year. Writing down special recipes is an essential element of being a cook. Keeping the instructions for making these special recipes is important to us and why we catalog them. After all, the recipe might become misplaced and never found again without a good system. It is a good idea to not let this happen, so you will not neglect an important part of being a good cook.