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Roast Leg of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary – Sunday dinner at Mom’s calls for a recipe on a “pièce de résistance” scale. This past Sunday it was an old fashioned roast leg of lamb. Yes, I am blowing the diet to a certain extent but every so often, she enjoys a regular type of meal […]
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Veal Lasagna! With mushrooms. It’s the best and most delicate tasting lasagna you will ever taste. Yes! Here is a quick and easy way to make a delicious lasagna using the ground veal I often find in my (and your) neighborhood markets. At close to seven dollars a pound, ground veal is more expensive than the leanest ground […]
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Homestyle Holiday Recipes – Everyone has favorite holiday recipes. Most likely these are recipes your Mom or Grandma used to make only around the major holidays. A few years ago, I decided it was time to collect and organize all those recipes clippings, and then, create a virtual personal cookbook. [yellowbox]In a hurry? Click on […]
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It is easy to prepare an artisan pizza for those of us who are following a gluten-free diet. Our sample is a take on a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. The crust (made by Schär® and found in the natural food aisle at the supermarket) bakes up crisp, crunchy but more importantly – flavorful. A year […]
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Cherry Chocolate Bars Recipe – These bars are a rich and moist variation of the traditional “gooey” brownie bars. Bake a pan full of colorful brownie treats. They make wonderful food gifts to bring to the office at Holiday time. In a hurry? Who does not like cherries or chocolate? Close your eyes and imagine […]
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Fruit pizza is one of our all-time favorite summer dessert treats. My uncle still talks about the slice of mixed fruit pizza I served when they visited the United States more than ten years ago. We know the French have some spectacular desserts but the fruit pizza made the family record books as “the most […]
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Home Style Pork and Beans – Let’s make that pork and beans with Applewood smoked bacon! You might wonder why anyone would be cooking pork and beans in August when the temperature’s rising and a summer storm front is brewing. It is late afternoon, I’m getting hungry and have no clue how to prepare the […]
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Barilla Pronto – While grocery shopping last week, I noticed something new in the pasta aisle: Barilla Pronto™ pastas. I decided to see what it was all about. The boys love their mac and cheese…and just about any pasta for that matter. I knew I would be cooking pasta soon enough and it is never […]
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This recipe for curried chicken thighs could be prepared in the slow cooker but I had the time and took the opportunity to use one of my favorite 5 quart dutch ovens – part of my vintage, hard anodized, commercial quality, Calphalon® cookware collection from the mid 80s. It’s much like using cast iron cookware. […]
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This is our chocoholic’s guide to the best brownie recipes in the family’s baking arsenal. Do you have a favorite brownie recipe…one you consider the best? Care to share? Chocolate is the flavor of choice for nearly every member of this family. It does not matter if it comes in the form of cake, cookies, […]
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By La Cuisinière | All Recipes , Comfort Foods
This is a recipe for Grandma’s (in other words – me) semi-homemade, back of the box, doctored up lasagna. It is specially prepared for two growing boys. We’ve always known she can’t leave well enough alone so every part of the back of the box recipe was changed in some way. This is her version […]
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