Category: Breakfast/Brunch
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The (pine)Apple of My Eye
Visiting with an acquaintance over bar bites the other evening, I was asked where I got my inspiration for new things to cook. Inspiration is where you find it, and as the conversation continued, mention was made that a favorite was “mama’s pineapple upside down cake”. I had some homemade, gluten-free yellow cake mix that…
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Greek Lemon Soup (Avgolemono)
It’s interesting, how food plays a part in the story of your life. Back in November of 2018, I reconnected over dinner with a friend who was my high school exchange partner in 1959 (you know, back before we started naming generations like we do hurricanes) – the first we had reunited in person in…
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Which came first,…
…and I’m not talking a contest between the chicken and the egg, but a contest between Easter eggs and deviled eggs. Assuming the hunt was for dyed hard-boiled eggs, and further assuming they were brought home, deviled eggs have throughout my memory always been the solution to what to do with ‘all those eggs’ (there…
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Celebrating yours and theirs.
One of the joys of growing up in a small town is that understanding differences between people is easier than in larger environs, especially when the physical manifestations of those differences, particularly religious, are a highly visible part of the community. The Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, and Baptist churches, and the Jewish Synagogue were all not…
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Vanilla Cheesecake with Caramel and Salted Pecans. Let’s do this!!!
Inspiration is where you find it! While waiting to board a recent flight at Dallas Love Field, destiny had me sitting, waiting, and reading across the way from the Paciugo Gelato store. It was mid-day,, and I’d had only a very light breakfast so – duh! – why not? The flavor that got my attention…
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Incredible. Edible. Egg.
Experience tells me that of all my favorite foods, eggs have had one of the longest and roughest rides on the good-for-you/bad-for-you roller coaster. Just in time for the recent/current shortages, eggs seem to be back on the good-for-you list, so I thought it a fun time to share some of my adventures with eggs.…
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Cheesecake! What’s not to like?
When I first started cooking, and wanted to branch out into something that I had always assumed was complicated and required an overabundance of finesse, I chose cheesecake; the baked kind, not the refrigerator kind. Growing up, cheesecake was something for cafeteria dessert selections, and was usually just a slice of cheesecake with some brilliant…
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Avocado Bread
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, along comes this gem. I debated calling this “Things I learned from Instagram”, since this delightful recipe was published to social media by B. Dylan Hollis (@bdylanhollis). He found it in a 1973 cookbook, and once you see how unusual and fun and easy it is, you’ll understand…
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Potatoes Pave
As common as potatoes are in most cuisines, and as luscious as they are when paired with cream and Parmesan cheese and butter, there’s little left to notching things up a bit more than a spectacular presentation. Enter Potatoes Pave. Yes, they take some time, and yes, it can be messy if you’re not careful,…
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