Lillet Marshmallows

So I served homemade (yes Layne, homemade) marshmallows at my party and they were almost like a booby trap because everyone
who ate one had the tell tale dusting of powdered sugar down their front.  Next time I’ll shake the extra sugar off a little better.
I have a lot to say about these marshmallows.  First, they [...]

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Hungarian Goulash

I never thought I’d post a recipe for goulash on this site, but a picture of one on foodgawker.com made me start thinking about how good
goulash and spaetzle would be for a cool Fall night dinner.  I poked around for some recipes that seemed moderately healthy, and found one on Food & Wine that was [...]

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Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie

I’ve definitely been in the mood for old-school comfort food and I’ve been wanting to make Shepherd’s Pie, Hungarian Goulash, cabbage rolls and the like.  I decided to make Shepherd’s Pie last night but wanted to see if I could make it vegetarian, and mushrooms seemed like a pretty obvious choice.  So, I looked around [...]

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Gingersnaps

This is a re-post, but I think I’m justified because I now have pictures of this recipe. And, it’s a good kick-start into the baking season with the holidays around the corner.  These are the gingersnaps my mom always made, and I think they’re the perfect one.  I did double amount of ginger and add [...]

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Warm Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Smoked Paprika

This is one of those drop everything and go make this now recipes.  It was that good.  In fact, so good I bumped it up
in my queue of posts.
I made this recipe two nights ago thinking it would pretty tasty because I love lentils and smoked paprika, and I was lured in by the picture [...]

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Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas

I’m sure everyone has that go-to meal that when you have no idea what to make for dinner, you can always fall
back on this dish.  For some people that means a meal that can be made from ingredients you always have on hand (for me the only thing I could make at any given time [...]

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Creamy Garlic Italian Dressing

Now, you would think I served this withe the Sicilian tuna steaks, and while that would be a great combination, I
didn’t.  Instead I made some pizza with friends one night and served a salad with this creamy, garlicky dressing on the side.  It’s one of those salad dressings that’s really worth making at home, because [...]

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Spicy Lemongrass Tofu

I’ve been very faithful to my favorite way to prepare tofu, which is the Grit restaurant way of crisping cubes in a pan, sprinkling on
soy sauce, giving them another crisping, then dusting them with nutritional yeast.  I found another recipe that gives tofu so much flavor it really surprised me.  This recipe, from Pleasures of [...]

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Eggplant with Coconut Milk

This was my personal favorite recipe from the Vietnamese meal that I cooked this weekend, but you know I’m a sucker for eggplant.
The eggplant turned out perfectly tender in a rich coconut milk sauce that was almost like a curry, but much easier and faster to make.  If you don’t love eggplant, I think you [...]

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Jaime Oliver’s Eggplant Parmesan

I wish I took a picture of this right after it came out of the oven because it was beautiful.  The picture I managed to take after the
carnage is not so beautiful, but you get the point.  I made this Eggplant Parmesan last night from a Jaime Oliver recipe, deceptive in its simplicity.  There’s no [...]

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