06 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Comfort Food, Pie
There’s something about pies and men…well women, too. From time to time we have folks over for dinner and when The Goddess decides it will be pie for dessert, she’s always bemused by the reaction people (read “men” here!) have. They get sort of glassy-eyed, perhaps a tear forms and then they get this satisfied grin, “There’s going to be pie for dessert….” Continue reading
05 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Salads, Vegetarian
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cabbage, cucumbers, mayonnaise, mustard, onion, parmesan cheese, Scallions, Spices, sugar, Tomatoes, vinegar, xanthan gum
I mentioned yesterday that The Youngest One brought some Hunter’s Sausage from Vermont. I made Grilled Potato Salad, and grilled cauliflower, but he loves cole slaw. He is particularly fond of the Sweet Mustard Summer Slaw, I’ve been making over the…wait for it…SUMMER! Continue reading
15 Saturday Aug 2015
Posted in Asian, Fish, Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Sauces
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egg white, honey, lemon juice, mayonnaise, sesame seeds, soy sauce, tuna steaks, vinegar, wasabi
The key to really good tuna, is to purchase the freshest tuna you can and then, not over-cooking them. They should be red in the very center and pink at the very least, with no more than 1/4-inch edge of doneness, less if possible. The truly wonderful part of all this is, tuna steaks can be cooked and on the table in less than 10 minutes! Continue reading
07 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Main Course
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Beer, brown sugar, coffee, corned beef, mustard, Onions, Spices, vinegar
Slow-roasted, brown sugar-crusted corned beef with beer and onion gravy. Why would you save this just for St. Patrick’s Day? It’s much too good and so simple to be left to one day a year. It makes a great Sunday dinner and the house will smell good enough to eat! Continue reading
28 Sunday Jun 2015
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Green Goddess dressing isn’t something you see too often anymore and that’s a shame. Its beautiful green color adds freshness to any table or dish. It’s versatile; it’s a great spread for sandwiches and canapés, swirled into soup and is terrific with chicken and steak. It also happens to be a great salad dressing. Continue reading
25 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Salad Dressing, Vegetarian
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black pepper, Garlic, herbs, lemon juice, lemon zest, mayonnaise, sour, vinegar, yogurt
Recently, I’ve been thinking about bleu cheese. This naturally leads me to bleu cheese dressing. Don’t you love bleu cheese and bleu cheese dressing? You know, the really chunky kind. You can certainly buy it, but making your own is fun and you can choose how much bleu cheese you use. And you’ll want to use a lot. Continue reading
18 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Pizza, Sandwiches
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Caramelized onions are for more than French onion soup, which is good…in fact very good, but add dried fruit, in this case mission figs, cranberries, some ruby port and other nice things, to those onions and you’ve created The Little Condiment that Could make dirt taste good! Since The Goddess has been on a bleu cheese kick recently (we’ll save dirt for another time, okay?), she decided this “jam” was just what she needed for a grilled bleu cheese sandwich. Life is STILL good. Continue reading
13 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in Condiments, Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Quickies (It's not what you think!), Salads
I’ve had this recipe for Russian dressing, given to me by a colleague from my single days, for years. God, that was decades ago. Anyway, she made this all the time; this was her go-to dressing and with good reason. It’s simple and a rather nice change of pace from bottled dressings of this ilk…a little sweet, a little tangy and drop-dead easy! The perfect summer dressing…. Continue reading
05 Friday Jun 2015
I mentioned a couple of things in yesterday’s Classically Good Potato Salad post—boiled dressing and Hard-boiled Eggs. Neither of those things sound very sexy, do they? But, these are both things you should know how to prepare well….first, boiled dressing…. Continue reading
04 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Make Ahead, Salads, Vegetarian
My father loved potato salad. More importantly, he loved my mother’s potato salad. This is the way she made potato salad and she made it well. This is the way she taught me to make potato salad. There’s not much better with a hot dog, and yes, Virginia, that’s ketchup on the hot dog…get over it! Continue reading
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