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

04 Tuesday Jul 2017

Posted by in Buffet Food, Casserole, Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Onions, Potatoes, Salads, Side Dishes, Skillet Dinner, Vegetarian Option

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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 →

Soft-Shelled Crabs with Meyer Lemon-Brown Butter Sauce

20 Friday May 2016

Posted by in Gluten Free, Shellfish/Mollusks

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Soft-Shelled Crabs with Meyer Lemon-Brown Butter SauceHurray!  It’s soft-shelled crab time! They are back in season.  Soft-shells are only around for a couple of weeks, so get some and enjoy them now.  Keep it simple, with a light breading and a nice big drizzle of great Meyer Lemon-Brown Butter Sauce….mmmmmmmm…life is great!  Continue reading →

Sichuan Cucumber Salad

19 Thursday May 2016

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Sichuan Cucumber SaladThis is a nice little salad to have in your repertoire.  It is the perfect summer salad, but joy of joys, since good cucumbers, a.k.a. English cucumbers are available year round, it’s a non-seasonal salad or side.  It packs a nice kick of heat and garlic…Vampires beware!  Continue reading →

Perfect Rice Every Time – UPDATED!!

11 Friday Sep 2015

Posted by in Gluten Free, Grain, Side Dishes, Vegetarian

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Rice is a cereal grain; there are white, brown, black, red and purple varieties of rice.  Rice offers a wonderful backdrop for other flavors, because it is has such a neutral flavor.  Combined with legumes, it becomes a vegetarian  protein.  It is low in fat and offers a good deal of Vitamin B, potassium, and phosphorus, as well as some fiber, which is all great…but how do I cook perfect rice? Continue reading →

Basil & Strawberries…Dessert and a Salad!

14 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by in Brunch, Desserts, Gluten Free, Herbs, Quickies (It's not what you think!), Salads, Vegetarian

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An Assortment of BasilsBasil, is more than just pesto.  We tend to use it in savory ways, but it’s great used in a sweet, dessert-type way too.  Basil like mint, comes in flavors.  Here we have from the top left corner (clockwise) Purple basil, Thai basil, Lemon basil, Columnar basil, Variegated basil and Genovese basil, the one we’re probably most familiar with.  Continue reading →

Creamy, Cheese Polenta

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by in Cheese, Gluten Free, Grain, Quickies (It's not what you think!), Side Dishes, Vegetarian

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I haven’t made the creamy-type of polenta in years…and I do mean years.  I had forgotten just how good it is and that it’s a nice alternative to mashed potatoes.  It also behaves as a backdrop for other flavors; herbs, spices, garlic, scapes or ramps, and in this case, cheese!  Beautiful, creamy cheese!!    Continue reading →

Arroz con Pollo (Chicken with Rice)

28 Saturday Feb 2015

Posted by in Gluten Free, Latin Food, Main Course, Slow Cooker

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Arroz con Pollo is part of The Latin Lover’s childhood.  He likes this version, because it has tons of flavor, with just a bit of smoky heat.  This is a fix-it-and-forget-it meal, thanks to the slow cooker; dinner will be ready when you come home and the aroma…baby, life is good!  Continue reading →

Let’s Talk (More) Flavors…Spices!

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by in Gluten Free, Slow Cooker, Soup

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To further our flavor adventure, this week we’re going to focus on spices.  Life should be spicy and full-flavored, don’t you think?  Spices can, well spice things up.  They can take us to other worlds, on a flavor adventure, so to speak.  These are a few of my favorite things…!  Continue reading →

Pink Peppercorns, the Imposter

22 Sunday Feb 2015

Posted by in Appetizers, Gluten Free, Salads, Vegetarian

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002Pink Peppercorns (Schinus terebinthifolius), a.k.a. Brazilian Pepper, Rose Pepper and Christmasberry aren’t true peppercorns.  That’s right, they’re all dressed up, pretty as can be in that deep, sexy pink; they look like peppercorns and they have a nice peppery taste, so what’s the deal?  Well, they’re imposters, I tell you.  Continue reading →

Québécois-Style Pea Soup (Soup aux Pois)

23 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by in Gluten Free, Legumes, Soup

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023Pea soup is winter in French-speaking Canada.  The pot is always on the stove and the more you reheat this soup, the better it tastes.  It keeps the freezing cold at bay, is very economical to make, is filling and plain and simply put…it’s good.  Continue reading →