Margaret Minnicks

There are at least twelve types of fathers who are celebrated on Father's Day on the third Sunday in June every year. Perhaps you are familiar with some or all of them.

Almost all cooks have paprika in their cabinet or on their condiment rack. Unfortunately, paprika thinks it is on punishment because it is allowed to come out only as a garnish to top certain foods such as deviled eggs and potato salad.

I grew up in a large single-parent family. My mother cooked a lot of mackerels but never salmon because mackerels were cheaper and could be stretched further in a stew to feed ten children. Therefore, I never had salmon cakes when I was growing up. After the children grew up and left that southern country town, my siblings learned to make salmon cakes, but I never gave it a thought until recently. I heard them talking about how good salmon cakes are.

Fans of Greenleaf will say goodbye to the series after Season 5 that premieres on June 23, 2020, at 9 PM on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Even though the regular season is ending, the story will continue in a spinoff that's in the works.

During the time of my quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic, I discovered an insatiable taste for bagels, especially the everything bagels. I grew a fondness for bagels because they are delicious and convenient to eat. Besides, there are so many ways to prepare them for a meal or a snack. They can be eaten toasted or untoasted with cream cheese or other ingredients on the slices after the bagel is split into two halves. I love the bagels so much and eat them so often that I might have become a bagel addict.

There is one thing most people have in common while staying home during the coronavirus pandemic is that they are eating more and eating more of the things they weren't eating before they were mandated to stay home. Even healthy eaters are finding themselves eating different foods than they did just a few months ago. They have begun to eat comfort foods that are not always healthy. Some have stopped counting calories and have gone back to eating foods that make them feel better.