April 27, 2024
Easy Banana Bread Muffins
Inspired by banana bread, but grounded by the realities of life I offer Easy Banana Bread Muffins. The muffins offer a few benefits over traditional banana bread. They are: easy
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March 26, 2024
Slow Cooker Mango Chicken Curry
Curry is international. It belongs to so many regions: India for sure, Southeast Asia, Caribbean Islands, British pubs… and, frankly, appreciated everywhere. This Slow Cooker Mango Chicken Curry is a
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February 22, 2024
Stage Plank Cookies
Stage Plank Cookies are a snack and a Southern story with flavor and a back history. As an adolescent, as was common in my small Southern town, I worked summer
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December 28, 2023
Mustard Roasted Cauliflower
Roasting vegetables is about technique. The technique is about removing moisture so that a Maillard reaction can happen. The reaction produces a distinctive taste and a brown appearance from caramelized
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November 17, 2023
Dutch Apple Cake
This very simple, very tasty dessert is a depression-era product. Times were difficult in the South during the Great Depression, but if you had butter and eggs you could make
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November 1, 2023
Lemon Basil Chicken Thighs
Like many great dishes, Lemon Basil Chicken comes down to good ingredients and technique. Lemon is always a fresh taste, basil makes anything livelier and chicken thighs provide a rich
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September 20, 2023
Spaghetti Cucuzza
Cucuzza squash grow beautifully on long vines around homes in Sicily – serving as half a landscape plant and half an easy garden plant. They are beloved in Italy. The
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August 21, 2023
Homemade Fried Okra
There was a style of Fried Okra I grew up with that seemed to have little relationship to the over-breaded restaurant and meat and 3 dishes available elsewhere. This style
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July 4, 2023
Peach Gelato
Consider Peach Gelato a virtual holiday. Short of traveling to Italy, authentic gelato often is out of reach. However, with the right equipment and approaches, you will be pleased with
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June 29, 2023
Barramundi Fillets with Mango
Barramundi is found throughout coastal areas of the Indo-West Pacific region. Always readily available in Southeast Asia and Australia, now fillets are easily found frozen in the U.S. and other
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