When I first tried this recipe as a young mom over 25 years ago, I thought the marinade sounded so strange and exotic that there was a…
Family favorite alert! Here is a step by step guide to making excellent oven roasted potatoes. In the photos below, I am making butter roasted potatoes to…
What makes this the perfect (decadent) food gift? You can multiply the recipe as needed. It travels well and keeps for a week or more in the frig.…
This burger was somewhat of a revelation. While trying to simplify a time-consuming recipe, and using whatever ingredients I had in the pantry so as to avoid another…
For this wonderful summertime sandwich, I bought a large piece of salmon fillet and cut it into portions that I knew would work with the bread that…
One of my children once said, “It’s hard to be in a bad mood when there are Snickerdoodles in the house!” Like the best sugar cookie but with…
This is my idea of the perfect meatless meal (although not vegetarian, of course, with the chicken broth) It is a simplified version of the wonderful Moroccan dish that usually…
I’ve been making this soup for years and just recently wrote down the ingredients and measurements so that I could post it here. For entertaining, it is fun…
Doesn’t this salad just scream summertime in the South? This is based on a first course that I had at Noble’s Restaurant in Winston Salem,…
When you see a recipe this simple and easy, you should know that it’s success will depend on the quality of each ingredient. So find the perfect tomato, the…
This is perhaps my most requested recipe and yet I hesitate to post it. Not because it is a closely guarded secret, but rather because the cinnamon chips…
Now, I’ve made pies and tarts, crisps, crumbles and cobblers….but this is the first time that I have made a crostata. No particular reason, just never got around…
I find this combination of flavors positively addictive! Cape Cod brand BBQ potato chips work really well as they are nice and sturdy and won’t crumble into…
The #1 reason that we always have flour tortillas in our refrigerator, tortilla pizzas have been a staple lunch item in our home for years. I found that…
Inspired by a recipe in the book Cupcakes, by Joanna Farrow… but I had to look further for a really great white cake batter. I found it…
Two of the South’s favorite sandwiches in one. How can something so simple be so sublime? When I was little, I picked the slivers of red pimento out…
There is nothing dainty about the flavor of this little treat. Crispy hush puppies, hollowed out slightly and filled with a cool and creamy crab salad. …
A really special sandwich! Worth the effort! (published in Elle Decor magazine) 1 pound jumbo lump crab, picked over for shells 1 egg 3 tablespoons…
One of my pet peeves is when a I am reading a cookbook or magazine and the photo of the dish obviously doesn’t match the recipe.…
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