(David) Hasselback Challah French Toast

(David) Hasselback Challah French Toast

by | Jan 13, 2020 | | 0 Comments

My book group meets on Sunday mornings and brunch is typically served, so when it's my turn I'm always looking for something that can be made ahead and is, of course, worthy of the fine women who attend. With a small amount of effort this dish from our friends at Real...

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Artichoke and Spinach Relish with Walnuts

by | December 17, 2022 | Featured, Original Recipes | 0 Comments

Friends, if you've ever lost a recipe you truly loved you will understand my excitement today. For I have recovered two of my favorite appetizer recipes thanks to other bloggers (and some dodgy sites that may now be harvesting my data or something idk). These were...
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Pasta al Pomodoro

by | August 29, 2022 | Featured | 0 Comments

  Hope you are all enjoying a safe and happy Tomato Season. For many of us, it's a celebratory time; a time to consume tomatoes every way we can imagine: BLTs, bruschetta, panzanella, galettes, caprese salads, tomato tarts, gazpacho... And fresh tomato sauce....
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Blueberry Cream Pie

by | July 22, 2022 | Featured | 1 Comment

Get a load of this stunner. If summer were a pie... The blueberry flavor is optimized and heightened by combining whole berries with a blueberry puree and finished with a touch of lemon. All poured into a graham cracker crust and topped with a heavenly alloy of...
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Cherry Pie

by | July 6, 2021 | Featured, The Hoosier Mama Book of Pies | 0 Comments

Cherry pie is my favorite pie I don't even have to think about it. Last week I managed to hit the farmer's market at the exact right moment to get the tart cherries I needed for this recipe and therefore achieved pie nirvana and am now deceased. I did not grow up...
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Blueberry Biscuits

by | July 3, 2021 | Featured | 38 Comments

I was intrigued by this recipe when it took a certainly nonconsensual ride on the social media rollercoaster on a facebook cooking group I belong to. It went like this: popular>wildly popular>backlash ("would people PLEASE stop posting about these biscuits!" and...
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Pork, Fennel, and Lemon Ragu with Pappardelle

by | March 31, 2021 | Featured | 5 Comments

Sometimes you make a dish so sublime and so chef-y that you ask yourself "do I ever need to eat out again?" This is certainly that dish. Close your eyes and you could be in any high-end, trendy-neighborhood hotspot. You know the place. It doesn't have a drink menu it...
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Cornmeal Lime Shortbread Fans

by | December 11, 2020 | Featured | 0 Comments

  Recipe first, blah, blah, blah later. God I'm already so tired of sweets and it's only December 11th. But we must persevere. There are so many cookies, candies and pies to eat before we're done. This recipe was part of a brilliant article by the brilliant...
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Classic Martini

by | September 8, 2020 | Featured | 3 Comments

I know everyone is joking about how much drinking is going on right now. Oh, were you waiting for a "but..." and then something witty? Something Nick-and-Nora-Charles-ish? No time for that because I need to talk about my new hobby: the Classic Martini. It's taken me a...
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French Summer Sandwiches with Zucchini and Olive Tapenade

by | July 20, 2020 | Cook's Illustrated magazine, Featured | 0 Comments

I'm going to assume we've all had it up to our masks hearing about Covid cooking. Sourdough starter, banana bread, air-frying, everyone's done it, blogged about it, made a Tik-Tok, and written a New York Times think piece. Whatever you're going to get out of this...
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(David) Hasselback Challah French Toast

by | January 13, 2020 | Featured | 0 Comments

My book group meets on Sunday mornings and brunch is typically served, so when it's my turn I'm always looking for something that can be made ahead and is, of course, worthy of the fine women who attend. With a small amount of effort this dish from our friends at Real...
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Tuscan Beef Stew

Tuscan Beef Stew

by | Mar 8, 2015 | | 1 Comment

I appreciate that Cook's Illustrated has a scientific explanation for why its recipes are superior to others, but most of the time I'm content to take it at face value and not read their lengthy dissertation.  I don't dislike science, I just feel like it's doing fine...

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Toasted Bread with Burrata and Arugula

Toasted Bread with Burrata and Arugula

by | Feb 26, 2015 | | 0 Comments

Or Bocconcini if that's what you discover the kid in the cheese department gave you right before you assemble this.  At least it was buffalo.   This was meant to be a first course but I doubled it and served as an appetizer.  It was a bit of a mess to eat and I'm...

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Italian Vegetable Stew

Italian Vegetable Stew

by | Feb 18, 2015 | , | 1 Comment

As I write this local Chicago weather professionals are going bonkers over a predicted record-setting temperature tomorrow.  National weather folks are saying there will be wind chill factors in FLORIDA.   And what most experts will tell you is that the best...

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