Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I have consistently posted on this blog every weekday for a while now which means if I’m slacking I must be reeeeeally busy. That’s why when I had almost all of Sunday free, I thought the best thing I could do for myself was to cook up something yummy so I would have a fresh…
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I bought some jalapeño chicken sausage with the intention of making some sort of jambalaya inspired rice dish. Intentions are great, but when you get home late with no time to buy any of the other necessary ingredients, intentions mean absolutely nothing. I opened up my fridge to see if there was anything I could…
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This holiday never gets old to me. I get the warm fuzzies just thinking about all the tradition. And as is tradition in my family, I am in charge of the appetizers. Since the caramelized onion dip I made for book club was devoured, I decided that would be my backup. I’ve learned to always…
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Experimenting with grilled cheese is fun. I’m a purist so I don’t believe you can add more than one non-cheese ingredient and still call it a grilled cheese. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t play around with different cheese varieties. This time, I wanted a cow’s milk Alpine cheese and went with Appenzeller Kaserei Tufertsch.…
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One if my great new cheese discoveries is dunbarton blue. It’s a blue cheese with cheddar as the base. The texture is more like cheddar so it doesn’t crumble the way you may be accustomed to. Even the people I was with who don’t like blue cheese liked this one. I had to have more…
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My Mom recently told me about a recipe she made that was a super simple version of chicken parm. It wasn’t quite simple enough for me so I tossed about half the ingredients and made parmesan crusted chicken. Mix mayo, fresh parmesan, and a bit of milk in a bowl. Thinly spread this mayo mixture…
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I love stuffed peppers but plenty of people seem to think tomatoes are totally interchangeable when it comes to a meal of filled vegetables. There are about as many stuffed tomato recipes as there are stuffed pepper recipes so there must be something good there. I didn’t want to use the same recipe I usually…
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This year was the first year I had trick or treaters. Ever. When I was younger, I was always the one going door to door for candy and once I was old enough to stay home and answer the door, my family had moved to a house that stood all by itself. No neighborhood means…
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My brother is a great eater. If you go to a restaurant with him, he’ll order the most out-there item on the menu. Vegetables pose no threat to him and strange food combinations are exciting rather than gross. But that wasn’t always the case. Growing up, my brother’s diet consisted of three items: chicken fingers,…
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The day before last week’s book club I Googled “make ahead appetizers” and the first article to pop up was “6 Make-Ahead Appetizers” at realsimple.com. I’ve made many a Real Simple recipe that turned out great so I knew I was bound to find something easy and delicious there. I was drawn to the caramelized…
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Peaches to Apples 