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Clean Plate Club

Clean Plate Club

As usual, I inhaled the first bowl of my winter favorite, herisah (continue on for very simple recipe). I only thought to take a photo after I’d literally licked the bowl clean. So I took another photo (below) when I had it for dinner again the next night. My small crockpot’s worth made 4-5 servings. … Continue reading →

Duck Soup

This turned out to be one of the more delicious soups I’ve made recently, I had the carcass from Thanksgiving, still with plenty of meat on it, and decided to just throw it in the pot at home one day. I added the last of the drippings (sans as much fat as I could scrape … Continue reading →

Kitchen Tools

How efficient! When it was time to prick my Thanksgiving duck all over before putting it in the oven (stuffed with apple, onion, fennel), I remembered I had this handy tool from a long-ago Pampered Chef home party I’d attended. (My other purchase: a heavy glass measuring/pouring bowl with plastic lid for storage. Very handy!) … Continue reading →

Spaghetti Sauce & Home Cooking

No convenience food here, unless you count the fact that I had frozen purchased sausage from a supermarket (a mix of hot and sweet), and the tomatoes were canned, a mix of JerseyFresh crushed and BioNature organic crushed. I did use rigatoni for this, my favorite dried pasta, De Cecco. (Although I do like Barilla … Continue reading →

Chicken Soup for the Storm

I count myself lucky to have only been without power for a little over two days. And I got gas without waiting in line, just by chance. But so many others are still powerless (in more than one way, as one friend of mine put it), and in many cases, without homes, too. It is … Continue reading →

Sunday Cooking

This was the rest of my Sunday cooking spree that produced the butternut squash soup in my previous post. A busy day! I made the Brussels Sprouts slaw here with shredded sprouts from Trader Joes (so convenient!), throwing in some carrot I needed to use up. I used just a smidge of a mustardy mayonnaise … Continue reading →

Gold Mine

I always say that leftovers are like money in the bank. But my leftovers are usually intentional, destined for office lunches or worknight dinners. That was the case with this butternut squash soup, which I made during a cooking binge on a recent Sunday afternoon. As I prepared to portion it out for single servings, … Continue reading →

Annual plum fest

I do this every fall. I start checking the local markets for Italian prune plums so I can make one of my favorite desserts, the Plum Pie (Zwetschgenkuchen) from Joan Nathan’s Jewish Cooking in America. The most reliable source for these plums is ShopRite, other markets may or may not have them. Regular plums don’t … Continue reading →

Swordfish

This turned out to be enough swordfish for three meals, because it was so rich, and cut a good inch or so thick. And that’s a good thing, because good fresh (i.e. never frozen), wild caught fish is an investment purchase these days – I believe this was almost $20. I drizzled some olive oil in … Continue reading →

Rachel’s Pie

This is what comes of watching daytime TV. I was home not feeling too well, and indulgled my self in TV land. Rachel Ray was cooking up this Spinach Artichoke Ricotta pie on her show, and it caught my eye, so I made it a week or so later. I have more than one package … Continue reading →