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August Recipe of the Month-those darn zucchini!

August Recipe of the Month-those darn zucchini!

August Recipe of the Month-those darn zucchini! I am so excited to have signed up for weekly vegetables from River Road Gardens, a small organic farm very close to where I live in Montgomery. The clincher? They deliver! But then, predictably, I had way more zucchini than I anticipated, especially since summer squash is not a … 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 →

Lobster & Cookies

This was a great Christmas Eve dinner, on an evening I was home finishing up preparations for Christmas Day.  I made a lazy cook’s version of the Lobster with Browned Cream from the Fall/Holiday edition of Canal House Cooking.  (That’s the one with the blue cover, snap one up while you can.) Instead of dealing … Continue reading →

Onion Soup

My little secret – I’ll never live this down!  This onion soup is, believe it or not Campbell’s.  No, not the heavily salted condensed kind, although I hear they’ve cut back on the salt in those. But this is part of the Campbell’s Select Harvest line, in a larger can.  I “enhance” it with brandy and … Continue reading →