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- Easy Chocolate-covered Strawberries for Valentine’s Day
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Category Archives: Recipes
Bye, Bye, Holidays — and a Crazy Stuffing Recipe for Next Year
The holidays are over. Although I have several marzipan pigs and some cranberry sparklers hanging around, everything else is a memory. The turkey. The New York strip roast. Many cheeses. The creamed spinach and Yorkshire pudding. God knows how many … Continue reading
Jazzed-up Matzo Brei for Breakfast
Matzo brei with turkey ham and aged cheddar At this point in time I’m starting to ponder the half-case of Passover matzos I’ll have hanging around after next week. We’ll have had a sea of smoked whitefish salad on them … Continue reading
Easy Chocolate-covered Strawberries for Valentine’s Day
I always make chocolate-covered strawberries for my family on Valentine’s Day. My husband loves them, and they make my son feel better if he’s between girlfriends — I hope. While it’s nice to temper chocolate using a thermometer to know … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Recipes
Tagged chocolate, desserts, fruit, strawberries, Valentine's Day
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Make a cheese souffle at home
Cheese souffle is the kind of thing many home cooks are afraid to make because they think it’s difficult. It’s really not. You need to practice once or twice in terms of technique, which is the part you need to … Continue reading
Affogato: Quick, wonderful dessert
My son’s friend, Ed, introduced him to affogato a few years ago, and I’m glad. Affogato means “drowned” in Italian, and involves pouring a shot of hot espresso over a scoop of vanilla gelato or ice cream, and is quite … Continue reading
Potato & Cabbage Gratin
An oozing casserole is a great thing to have for din-din on a cold winter’s eve. While a potato gratin may be the perfect form of this, I like to add a little something else to the mix. Awhile ago I adapted Tyler Florence’s “ultimate” recipe to what … Continue reading
Little Crab Casseroles
Here’s an easy recipe for decadent little creamy crab casseroles I developed based on a couple 1950′s dip recipes. They work very well if you are having people over and want to serve a comforting, hot appetizer. Do me a favor, though: buy … Continue reading
Leftovers: Roast ‘taters with Cheese & Short Rib Gravy
Anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows I’m big into leftovers. If I make something or go out to eat I don’t care what’s left, how much or how little, I put it in a container and eat … Continue reading
Stuffed Peppers with Ground Meat, Farro & Feta in Lemon Sauce
The gist of this post is: farro better than rice in stuffed peppers, in my opinion. My Mom always used rice, lots of tomato product and green bell peppers in her version, which I still love, but I do something different that … Continue reading
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Tagged egg-lemon sauce, farro, greek cuisine, ground meat, lemon sauce, meat, red bell peppers, stuffed peppers
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Better Late than Never in Making Masala Chai at Home
You can file this under lame, or lazy, or just plain wasteful. Why I never started making masala chai (Indian spiced tea) at home I’ll never know. I have been telling myself to look into this for years, but just … Continue reading
