January 2012

Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake

January 30, 2012

My son, John, inherited his chocolate gene from me.  He’s also got a very dominant cheesecake gene.  Throw in the fact that he likes chewy, chocolate chip cookies; and you can see that I’ve passed along the alliteration gene as well—and double alliteration at that!  Did I mention he really likes Chinese food, too?

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OMG Chocolate Cake

January 27, 2012

Did you know that today is National Chocolate Cake Day?  There are a couple of people in my family who consider every day as being worthy of that title.  I found out only at the last minute that this was a special chocolate day, so I relied on a tried and true chocolate cake recipe [...]

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Shrimp and Andouille Gumbo

January 26, 2012

With the cold winter weather here and Mardi Gras looming, I thought it was time to share this wonderful shrimp and andouille gumbo.  I first saw it in my January 2009 copy of Bon Appétit accompanied by glowing reviews—but, as is often the case, it languished in a pile until a year ago.  When I [...]

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Beef Barley Soup

January 23, 2012

The colder the weather gets, the more I crave soup—and I have been craving soup a lot lately.  It’s the rare week that I don’t make a big pot of one soup or another, and that’s year round.  Now that we’re experiencing really frigid temperatures, it’s not unusual for me to make soup a couple [...]

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Orange Chicken

January 20, 2012

My kids are crazy about orange chicken.  They frequently pick it up at that well-known Chinese restaurant chain and will order it off the menu any time they see it at a Chinese restaurant.  Personally, I have never been a big fan of orange chicken, but this recipe has made me change my mind.  I [...]

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Brussels Sprouts

January 17, 2012

While the girls were home on break, I decided to roast some Brussels sprouts as a side veggie to go with our steaks for dinner.  When my daughter Amy saw me take the Brussels sprouts out of the fridge, she told me she had found a really good recipe and had made them while at [...]

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Green Smoothie

January 14, 2012

We’re almost halfway through January, so it’s about time I posted a healthy recipe.  Are you getting your 5-a-day servings of fruits and vegetables?  I’ve got you covered with this green smoothie—and, yes, as you may suspect, the green component is spinach!

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Cranberry Scones

January 11, 2012

I am waaaaay behind on posting recipes!  Someone asked me recently if I were running out of recipes to post.  Uh, no.  I target, on average, 10 new recipes a day to try.  Given that I am able to actually make only three or so new recipes a week, you can see that I won’t [...]

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Mama Musto’s Lentil Soup

January 8, 2012

This lentil soup is one of many in my Sicilian mom’s arsenal of pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) recipes.  Of course, if you’re Sicilian, you pronounce it “pasta fazool.”  It was one of my favorite soups growing up, the other being her version of Italian wedding soup.  How many 5-year-olds today can say that [...]

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Bread Sculpture Dough

January 5, 2012

My friend Jill and I have decided that we must have been twins separated at birth.  We are both certifiable recipe-aholics with no recipe too difficult to tackle and no ingredient too strange to track down.  If one of us needs an expensive, obscure ingredient, she’ll call me or I’ll call her and we’ll split [...]

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