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Crowd-pleasing Dinner Rolls - Sortachef

For Thanksgiving one year, my whole family rented a house at the Jersey Shore for a reunion. My job was providing dinner rolls. The nieces’ and nephews’ eyes got round when they saw me mixing flour, water and yeast. I put the sponge on top of the fridge and let it [...]

Nourish: Walnuts! French Walnut Bread and Toasted Walnut Hummus

Walnuts! I love walnuts and toss them into lots of things, especially salads and cookies. Growing up we rarely had ANYTHING with walnuts, because my brother was/is deathly allergic to them, along with peanuts and hazelnuts. Every day after school I would go over to my friend’s house and snack on walnuts from [...]

When Sandwich Becomes Art – Bouchon for Two

The sandwich is such a conflicting food item. The span of ideas within this umbrella of essentially any filling squished between bread has deterred me from eating them for a long time.

On one end of the spectrum, the sandwich is hailed for its portability, convenience, and affordability. All throughout elementary school, my mom [...]

Beef Stroganoff With Wide Noodles – Cafe Nilson

Seen in the foreground of the above photo, this dish was served at our 70s disco party with the wide egg noodles. Also perfect with just plain bread or even over wild rice with mushrooms.

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Tomato Pie Recipe – Simply Recipes

Lovely tomato pie!

One of the great things about going on vacation is I get to hang out with my friends, and sometimes meet their friends, who sometimes have OMG-this-is-so-GOOD dishes that they bring over. This tomato pie recipe is a result of one of these encounters. The first time I heard of it (“tomato [...]

Gnocchi – We Are Never Full

Look folks, I don’t even know what gnocci is, never had it, so this blog being about what I’ve never had and may be good.. It’s here.. Making them from scratch!

The second course was gnocchi with a combination of two Lidia Bastianich sauce recipes – one with breadcrumbs fried in butter, and the other with [...]

Sausage and Apple Turkey Stuffing

We usually prepare the stuffing the night before and place it in the refridgerator. Then we start the Turkey in the early AM. This recipe will do 2 15lb turkeys but one is what we usually do and cook the rest of the stuffing in a casserole as it’s extremely [...]

Pizza Dough Preparation

The foundation of the Pizza is the dough. I wanted chewy more than crunchy. This recipe as is can be stretched ( no pun intended ), somehow my kids can sense from a hundred miles away I’m making it and [...]

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