Terrific Tartar Sauce

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Terrific Tartar SauceThe Goddess loves mayonnaise and tartar sauce is just so good.  If she didn’t like fish as much as she does, tartar sauce alone would be reason enough to eat fish!  Continue reading

Tex-Mex Dig-in Dip

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Tex-Mex Dig-in DipSeven Layer Dip has been around for years, and with good reason.  It’s delicious.  It’s easy and it’s delicious.  It goes together in a flash and it’s delicious…are you seeing a pattern here?  But, seven layers is just a tad too limiting for The Goddess…. Continue reading

Hot Potato Salad with Bacon, Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

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Hot Potato Salad with Bacon, Cheese and Sun-Dried TomatoesYou know how The Goddess loves potato salads of all kinds.  She’s given you Classically Good Potato Salad, French-Style Potato Salad and Grilled Potato Salad.  This one is pretty much a basic potato salad, but she riffed on the dressing used for German potato salad and then threw in a few things she thought would be tasty.  Continue reading

Happy Fourth of July!

Fourth of July Picnic-Type FoodHappy Fourth!  It’s a fun time of year and the focus on good food, cooked out-of-doors, usually on a grill, is at its peak.  But, what usually makes any day special, is the joining of friends and family, around a table, with great food, just plain good fun and laughter.  Plenty of laughter…. Continue reading

Hot Pot Revisited-Seafood Hot Pot

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Seafood Hot Pot RevisitedWe visited Han Restaurant again.  Those Hot Pots are addictive, I tell ya’.  Well, we had some of the broth leftover and you know how The Goddess loves her leftovers.  We decided to “re-purpose” it a bit, so we made a fish stew.  Continue reading

Roasted Sicilian Eggplant with Golden Raisins and Cumin

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Roasted Sicilian Eggplant with Golden Raisins and CuminI probably shouldn’t be calling this Sicilian Eggplant, since I’m not only not Sicilian, hell, I’m not even Italian.  This may seem like it has non-Italian flavors, but we need to remember that the Moors “visited” Sicily for quite a number of years.  Therefore, this has many of the flavors they left behind, after they moved on.  You know, things like raisins, pistachios and cumin.  It matters not what those flavors are, it’s still darned delicious.  Continue reading

Roasted Eggplant Wedges with Soy-Balsamic Glaze

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Roasted Eggplant Wedges with Soy-Balsamic GlazeYou may have heard rumor that The Goddess has a torrid affair going.  Don’t worry your pretty little head about it, The Spicy Honey knows all about my relationship with eggplant.  I love it (and him!) in any and every form, but roasted (not him!) is I think perhaps, my favorite.  Continue reading

Roasted Citrus Tapenade

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Roasted Citrus TapenadeThis tapenade is salty, slightly bitter, slightly sweet and completely delicious.  It works with meat, poultry, and fish.  It can be stirred into sauces.  Or smeared on a grilled cheese.  Yes, it’s a flexible little minx, this one.  Continue reading

Fattoush or Panzanella-Why Choose?

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Fattoush-Panzanella SaladPanzanella or Fattoush?  That is the question.  In reality, they are pretty much the same salad…and yet, not.   That makes no sense, does it?  At their roots, they are both bread salads, with good veggies tossed in.  But it is all about the bread or the pita, and with this version, you don’t have to choose between the two…Fattoush-azella! Continue reading

Tomato-Corn Chowder

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Tomato-Corn ChowderI just made this for dinner tonight.  The Spicy Honey loves tomato soup, but he usually prefers the kind in the can.  However, he does enjoy this one.  This is an incredibly simple and delicious soup.  With summer on the horizon, this seems to work, even when the heat creeps into our bones.  Continue reading