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Chipotle Shrimp Chowder

March 10, 2010

 
I suspect I’m like most cooks. When I see a recipe that looks good, I copy it to try later with my own substitutions or additions. I subscribe to many (too many) cooking blogs where I drool and gather ideas.
One blog that I particularly enjoy includes recipes from everyone in the family. When I saw [...]

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Shrimp Creole

March 3, 2010

 
My accumulation of cookbooks started early, and I’m sure that is true of most cooks. One of my favorite cookbooks dates back to when I was a girl traveling in New Orleans with my parents. One that I didn’t mention in my post about my cookbook addiction is New Orleans Creole Recipes, by Mary Moore [...]

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Spaghetti Squash

February 23, 2010

 
I’m trying to keep calories and carbs low, but I get starved for a good Italian marinara. One of the best solutions I know is to use spaghetti squash. You might have seen it in the store, but you weren’t quite sure what to do with it. If you’ve never tried it, you’re in for [...]

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My Cookbook Addiction

February 17, 2010

 
I confess! I’m addicted to books! But I have read all the books I own and continue to use them all as reference and/or for teaching.
My addiction carries over into cookbooks, and I doubt if there is even one of these books that hasn’t been used for at least one recipe. Like many cooks, I [...]

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Cran-Apple Crumb Pie

February 10, 2010

Before baking
 
It has become a joke among some of my friends that they can always find a huge bag of cranberries in my freezer. It’s true! I find all sorts of uses for them throughout the year. Because it’s such a beautiful red, I’m making one this week for my significant friend for Valentine’s Day. [...]

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Peasant Potato Soup

January 27, 2010

 
Like many “foodies,” I learned a lot of my cooking from my parents at home as a child. Because I came along at the end of the Great Depression, there was one staple that always found its way to the table in our home – Potato Soup. And I hated it!
Then, by the time [...]

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Chicken, Cranberries, Yams, Etc

January 20, 2010

 
When my brother and I were growing up in a preacher’s home, many of our meals were made out of what was on hand and leftovers. Our parents had a knack for creating some interesting and tasty meals out of little bits of this and that.
A few weeks ago, my brother posted a delicious looking [...]

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Feta, Buckwheat Noodles, and Red Chard

December 27, 2009

 
I’m often inspired by recipes that I find on other foodie blogs. When the other cooks say their recipe uses what any pantry would contain, I laugh. Not my pantry! I don’t think my pantry items are weird, but they certainly aren’t what a lot of other people have.
I saw a recipe recently that sounded [...]

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Cranberry Bread

December 23, 2009

 
A few Christmases ago, my brother gave me a gift certificate from Ace Hardware. I bought an old-fashioned grinder like the one I remember using to grind up cranberries for the bread our mother often made. It is still one of my favorite fruity breads.
There is a funny incident that goes along with this recipe. [...]

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Tomato Catsup

November 11, 2009

 
The name I gave my great-grandmother Laura Margrave was “Gran Mutt,” a peculiar title for anyone, but she took great pride in being called by that name. As the wife of a Methodist preacher, and mother of many children, she gathered loads of recipes from church folks. I could write an entire book on the [...]

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Split Pea Soup With Smoky Pork

October 28, 2009

 
When I lived on my sailboat, this soup was a tradition on all homeward bound trips after a week or more at sea. It’s a good thing stoves on a sailboat are gimbaled so that they remain steady and the soup doesn’t slop out when we are heeled over on a good run.
I like to [...]

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Orange Bread

September 23, 2009

 
When I was in high school, I worked as a receptionist for one of the local optometrists who was also a member of my father’s church. His wife was known to be a great cook, so this is the recipe from Bea Henderson of Litchfield, Illinois – one I’ve made for many years.
This recipe became [...]

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Lilikoi Butter

September 9, 2009

 
First, you need to know that “lilikoi” is our Hawai`ian word for passionfruit, the fruit of the Passion Flower vine. Read the Wikipedia religious explanation of the word “passion.” But I’m passionate about the passionfruit (groan), which I know mostly as lilikoi.
In January, I wrote about trying to grown my own, but I haven’t had [...]

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