KP Cooks: You can keep it simple or make it way more complicated than it needs to be, but the goal
remains a defiant ice cream full of fireworks
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Katrina Herringbottom
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7/2/25
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KP Cooks: Hotdish, a midwestern favorite, warms hearts and ovens while serving as an act of defiance.
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4/30/25
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KP Cooks: potatoes can make a delicious crust for a creamy quiche, blending fresh veggies and cheese into breakfast bliss.
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1/29/25
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There is only one surefire hack to prevent crying over onions. It’s easy — just get your heart broken a few times.
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Katrina Herringbottom
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11/28/24
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As with most people who are good at eating, I also cook a bit. And like most of those people, there are a few things I cook well, more I do OK, and some I should never try again.
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Katrina Herringbottom
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2/28/24
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My dad hated rice. That and celery. He was a U.S. Navy ensign during the Korean War and spent a month on an ammunition ship getting ferried across the Pacific to meet his destroyer.
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Katrina Herringbottom
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11/2/23
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Dolly Parton and I go way back.
In the earlier 1970s, my siblings and cousins and I got ferried around a lot by one of our slightly older cousins in a sky blue Plymouth Valiant, the one …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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6/28/23
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I don’t know why we called him Uncle Moose. He was my dad’s brother-in-law, his name was Murph, and he bore about as much resemblance to a moose as would a Methodist minister, which is …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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8/31/22
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In October 1981, I was napping on the hallway floor near a guest bathroom the morning after a pre-wedding function in the (to me) extremely foreign land of Arizona.
I was 20ish and otherwise …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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9/29/21
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‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez
We were about a month into this thing last year when I was laid up in the hospital. It wasn’t Covid-related but I was imprisoned long enough to learn what that disease was doing to people, to …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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8/28/21
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It was late one Christmas Eve and I was sharing a piano bench with some guy I thought was my husband. He was playing away and the assembled company, back when company could assemble, were all singing …
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Katrina Herringbottom
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12/30/20
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