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Essential Pepin: Risotto with Vegetables

What I like about this recipe: lots of veggies. I am crazy about risotto but eating a huge bowl of creamy, buttery, cheesy rice seems like something that will eventually end in ones’ skirts doing an intervention on one.  Adding lots … Continue reading

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Essential Pepin: Crab Cakes with Avocado Salsa

Remember when I made crab cakes before?  Let’s let the computer screen get all wavy as we recall that recipe… It was a bit crazy-making.  And the results, while good, didn’t justify the time and expense, let alone the beginnings of … Continue reading

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Essential Pepin: Carrot and Sunflower Seed Salad on (whoops!) Red Leaf Lettuce

Yumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyum. Too ambiguous?  So good.  Make it now. I love these kinds of salads.  Crunchy, sweet, tangy and nutty.  I probably ate three servings worth in the form of pre-dinner nibbling. Unfortunately I forgot to set it atop its bed of … Continue reading

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Essential Pepin: Red Snapper Fillets in Potato Jackets

What you can’t see in this picture, thanks to my formidable photography skills, is that the jackets did not quite embrace the fish as I believe Jacques intended.  What you also cannot see is that I used halibut vs. red … Continue reading

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The Next Book: Essential Pepin

I believe I’ve shared with you that I adore and admire Jacques Pepin.  Once or twice.  Or maybe several dozen times but let’s not keep score, shall we?  Why?  First and foremost for the reason that I love any chef: … Continue reading

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Review: Girl in the Kitchen

  Escarole and Frisee Salad with Apple Vinaigrette And so we come to the end of our journey with Stephanie Izard and I have to say, I will miss her.  Not only did I enjoy most of the recipes I … Continue reading

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Girl in the Kitchen: Four-Cheese Macaroni with Apples (of course!) and Bacon

What a tour de force of mac and cheese this is.  And can I just say, what a tour de force of a mom I am for the lengths I went to to make part of this vegetarian-acceptable.  It was not easy. … Continue reading

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Girl in the Kitchen: Tomato and Cashew Soubise

There’s something about a good rice dish for me — I could make an entire meal out of it. This one is SO good and so unexpected.  As I was stirring the par-cooked rice, sliced onions, canned tomatoes, cashews and … Continue reading

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Girl in the Kitchen: Smoked Ham Hock and Leek Soup

Once again my friend Stephanie displays her deep and abiding love of croutons.  What a girl.  And what I love about how she uses them here is that it’s so much more practical in terms of getting the bread efficiently into your … Continue reading

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Chocolate Truffles

I’m kind of mad at these truffles. From the January/February 2012 issue of Cook’s Illustrated, this was indeed one of the easiest truffle recipes I’ve ever come across.  No double boiler, no tempering.  You don’t even have to chop the … Continue reading

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