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October 27, 2026

Mixing Bowl: Sweet Pralines

This recipe, from the cookbook Sweet Home Café Cookbook by Albert Lukas, combines sugar, butter, milk and nuts to form  these very sweet candies.  Boil these ingredients together until thick, plop onto waxed paper, and you have one of the easiest homemade candies there are. Because...

Mixing Bowl: Ceviche

Versions of ceviche are created up and down the Americas from Mexico, south to Guatemala, through Central America, the Caribbean, to the tip of South America in Chile — basically wherever there is fish.  Peru calls it their national dish and claims it originated there...

Mixing Bowl: Black Olive Tapenade

My first run-in with the olive came from my mom’s tamale pie.  It was the only time we ate them, and the metallic flavor and soft texture never seemed objectionable. It was a popular ’50s casserole thought to have come out of Texas. Although named...
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 No ICE presence confirmed at Watsonville hospital

Watsonville Community Hospital reported there was no confirmed ICE presence on the hospital campus, despite a reported sighting of suspicious-looking vehicles earlier in the...