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Vermouth Dressing
Vinegar-free Dressing There can be no doubt, in my mind anyway, that the most quintessential salad dressing is vinaigrette. This simple combination of oil and vinegar along with seasonings like mustard, herbs, salt and pepper is universally loved and lends itself to an infinite number of variations. It is much more French than what is known […]
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Chardonnay Tasting My father had a Chardonnay tasting and asked me to bring an hors d’oeuvres. I had no time to shop and had to dig around my kitchen for ingredients. I found puff pastry, which I always have in the freezer, brie, onions and apples, so this is what I came up with and […]
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Last night was a true nightmare. My daughter, Grace, got a very bad case of the stomach flu and actually passed out. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she turned the color of pickled herring. My husband grabbed her and we ran to the car. Fortunately, a brand new urgent care opened up […]
Continue ReadingBreakfast Burritos
Wake UP and Smell the Coffee!!!! I have started to make big breakfasts every morning for the family. One day we had pancakes, bacon and sausage, the next oatmeal and tomorrow we are having breakfast burritos. I think kids need a good breakfast before school. Let’s see how long this lasts – I’m not exactly […]
Continue ReadingMoist Banana Nut Bread
I was listening to NPR this week and her a piece on All Things Considered with Shirley Corriher, who is an Atlanta-based food chemist and cookbook author. She offered advice for some common kitchen quandary. In a recent baking disaster, NPR‘s Melissa Block made a tasty but dense zucchini bread that didn’t rise. “Well, you’ve got a couple of options […]
Continue ReadingMaldon Salt
When asked about her thoughts on using expensive gourmet salt, Julia Child once responded, in her down to earth way, that “salt is salt.” Well, she was right—to a point. Sodium chloride, also known as salt, common salt, table salt, or halite, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCI. It is present in […]
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Sunday Lunch Yesterday, we had friends from England for lunch. We had “Sunday Lunch”, which basically entails eating, talking and drinking around the table all day. Sunday lunch is a complete “write off” for the day, but what a way to spend a Sunday. British Sunday lunch is also known as a Sunday Roast and […]
Continue ReadingSlow Cooked Curried Chicken with Cauliflower
An easy one pot meal…. I love crock pot recipes. There is nothing better than coming home exhausted to a fully cooked, ready to serve dinner. They only thing to be done is to open a bottle of wine and now in the age of screw tops make it effortless. Here is an easy chicken […]
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Chilean Miners Strike Gold I can’t really blog about anything but Chile today. I know the media “milked” the Chilean miner story to death, but what an outcome. There are never heart-warming, good outcome stories – ever. Think about all the things you’ve done in the past 69 days. I’m sure it did not include […]
Continue ReadingPenuche Fudge
Candy Thermometers…. Being the “people pleaser” that I am, I decided I would attempt to make my grandmother’s penuche. No one in the family seems to know what happened to the recipe. She did not do a lot of cooking, but she did make good pies, chocolate fudge and penuche. Unfortunately, I never actually witness […]
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