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TBT Idea for the Super Bowl: Turkey Medallions with Tequila Lime Sauce, Druken Red Beans and New Mexican Rice

  Sunday is Super Bowl and today is Thursday, time for TBT recipe. From 2015, here's a meal idea that seems just dandy. It's not tacos or nachos or wings. It's real food,  stuff you can make in advance and keep warm and serve when every you want. I know, some of...

And We Begin Again ..

  Sorry. I was starting to post again and then Suzi and I went to Boston for a museum show. And we got Covid. Second time. Second chances can be brutal. Speaking of second chances, we gave one to these cats. "I won't split them up," the woman said. She was the...

Roussilon Meatballs from Michele Scicolone

Meatballs? Oh, sure, an Italian recipe. Right? Wrong. This is French, from the Roussilon region in Southwest France. Too often we hear "French Food" and have images of Paris and roast chicken. France's food is as diverse as Italy's and French regional food has...

Lemon Herb Crust Salmon with Warm Lentil Pilaf and with Celery Root and Apple Slaw

Lemon Herb Crust Salmon with Warm Lentil Pilaf and with Celery Root and Apple Slaw Before you taste your food, you smell it and you see it. Gee, you might even hear it cooking in another room before your plate is presented to you. That is why Suzi is so focused on all...

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Cookbook Review: The Brownie Diaries

    Brownies. It’s a powerful word sure to bring up the fondest memories of childhood. Or, in my case, adulthood. I adore brownies. In my lifetime, I have eaten more brownies than Oreos....

TBT Cookbook Review: Tart It Up!

In these days of being locked down at home, cooking chores can weigh on us all. One key trick is to make dishes that give you leftovers you really want to eat. Like a tart with a wonderful crust and...

Raspberry Tart with a Pistachio Crust

    This delightful tart was our Easter dessert. It features a pistachio crust that you will find wondrous — something you will want to use over and over again. Inside goes a rich vanilla...

TBT Recipe: Chicken and Asparagus Pie

It is early spring. Time for the first asparagus of the season. What can we do with chicken so that it doesn’t taste just like chicken? Well, the special and distinctive flavor of asparagus is...

Vermont Late Winter Cottage Pie

  These are days when we can all use some comfort food. And, with us cooking all our meals, it’s great to construct a dish that will give you leftovers to smile about. The bubbling topping here...

Sticky Buns from Marion Cunningham

Sticky bun? Cinnamon roll? I think the distinction is whether you cover the top with that white sugar glaze you see in bakeries. I like the glaze, but, but is superfluous. And I find it actually...

Cheese Strata

Here’s an idea from March 2015, and it shows why if you want breakfast, you’d be better off in Italy than anywhere else. This dish is deep and decadent. You might consider challah or...

TBT Cookbook Review

In 2015 I first posted this review of Jacque Burdicks’s lovely French Cooking en Famille.  Published in 1989, it brought rave reviews, like this one from M.F.K. Fisher: “French Cooking...

Cookbook Review: Searing Inspiration

Utterly delicious. Searing Inspiration was published in 2018 and I got an early copy. And then stuff happened and I lost track of the book. I uncovered it this weekend and truly regret the delay in...

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