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Roasted Shrimp, Pepper and Pea Couscous Salad
A quick and light spring lunch for today: Roasted Shrimp, Pepper and Pea Couscous Salad. Under 30 minutes, from fridge to table. Yum! Ingredients 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 tablespoons freshly...
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How to make Hollandaise
Hollandaise. That lovely creamy buttery addition used to perfect Eggs Benedict, place over white fish or summer veggies. It is pure magic if done correctly, and can be a disastrous mess if it splits on...
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Getting to be BBQ season here in the Northeast and it is the Fourth of July coming up so I thought that I would share one of my “Go To” side dishes. This pasta salad has to be one of the fastest ever...
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Cauliflower Steaks with Pistachios and Browned Butter
Cauliflower is really underrated, in my opinion. A lot of people think it is bland or flavorless. The white color doesn’t exactly do it any favors either. But you can really use it as anything from a...
View ArticleWhite Balsamic and Rosemary Cranberry Chutney
Every year, I seem to make another variation on cranberry sauce. There have been versions with ginger, apple, port wine and this one, with Rosemary and White Balsamic. It’s a great little combination,...
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Goat Cheese and Lemon Deviled Eggs
More deviled eggs! I think that if you were to search this site, you would find at least a dozen recipes. I love them. This version is extremely light and fresh: Perfect for spring. Try to find a very...
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Crabmeat and Asparagus Quiche Tart
For some reason, quiche always means Spring to me. Maybe summer. Do you have “seasonal” food, at least from a mood perspective? I went on another picnic today and instead of making sandwiches, I made...
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Caprese Orecchiette Pasta Salad
Here is a riff on both pasta salad and caprese, the tomato-mozzarella-basil salad that I eat normally when the local tomatoes come into season. I used mini-everything for this recipe: cherry tomatoes,...
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Charred Sweet Potatoes with Chile-Infused Honey
So, have you guys noticed that I seem to buy random ingredients and then kind of after the fact, think to make something with them? Yep, I have a pantry full of weirdness. And in today’s edition of...
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Early Summer Picnic Salads
Last Weekend, I went on a picnic to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. In typical me fashion, I volunteered to bring the food, and decided to make a few salads, in addition to wraps and fruit and...
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Slow-Cooked Cherry Tomatoes with Garlic and Rosemary
I’ve had a crazy overload of tomatoes from my porch garden this year. It started out with the bigger tomatoes, like Early Girl and Big Boys. Then came the Romas, and now I have a crazy amount of cherry...
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Rustic French Boule in a Dutch Oven
The story of this loaf of bread (condensed version): I’ve been meaning to make this style of bread for a while, but always forget the overnight rise, so remembered last night at about midnight that I...
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Cheesy Colcannon
Today … today I wanted comfort food for lunch. So that turned into mashed potatoes, cabbage sauteed in bacon fat, bacon bits and cheddar cheese. My own amazingly delicious version of Colcannon. Might...
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Rustic Rosemary Olive Loaf
So, if you’re noticing a tread in the last couple of weeks, yes, I am indeed really getting into this “bread baking in a dutch oven” thing. In fact, so much so that I bought a second — smaller —...
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Kat’s Basic Straight-forward No-frills Guacamole
One of my guilty pleasures is Guacamole. OK, it could be worse — avocado is good for you right? — but I could eat it by the bucket. On Toaste. On potatoes. As salad dressing. On a burger. Whole Foods...
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Flavored Salt Trio: Ramps (Wild Garlic), Spicy Chili and Meyer Lemon
And now for something completely different… it started out because I found some ramps (wild garlic, ransom, bear’s garlic … whatever you want to call it, in German, it is bärlauch) and wanted to be...
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Lemon-Dill Salmon Pasta Salad
Ahh, summertime when veggies are fresh and you really don’t want to eat hot food anyway, right? Right. So I made this lovely Lemon-Dill Salmon Pasta Salad with Cucumbers and Peas for lunch. Made it up...
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Refrigerator Dill Pickles 5 ways: Whole, Spears, Stackers, Slices and Relish
Have I ever told you about my complete and utter infatuation with the Dill Pickle? The Gherkin. The traditional accompaniment to the American burger. I have never met a combination of Vinegar, Dill and...
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Multigrain No-Knead Bread Loaf
Cooler weather (though really, it has still been summery) makes me want to bake more bread. Most of the time, when I want a multigrain, I go to my standard Dakota bread, but I wanted to see if I could...
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Cranberry Black Currant Apple and Ginger Chutney
Sauce”. I like to experiment with different sauces and chutneys to accompany the big turkey on the day. This year, I made the chutney variation a little earlier than usual, while I still had time. So...
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