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Ingredients for quiche with bok choy in center

Bok Choy Quiche

I saw a picture of a quiche in Vegetarian Times (Sept. 2014, pg. 64) that used phyllo dough for the crust and it looked quite pretty. I often find that

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Serving creamy tuna noodle casserole.

Tuna Casserole

Next on the menu for using up red pepper and celery was Tony’s American classic – tuna noodle casserole. Yes, we had two almost identical (in terms of the béchamel

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Ingredients ready for white bean chili

Slow Cooker

I never know whether to call the crock pot a slow cooker, so I try to use both names in each post; but a crock pot is really the thing

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Putting nuts on the side of the frosted cake.

Birthday Cake

Determined to make a somewhat healthy but still irresistible carrot cake for my son’s birthday, it took me a couple tries to figure out a recipe. I’ve learned that it’s

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Serving pork chop with polenta and cactus fruit

Overcooking Meat

My favorite way of having pork chops is breaded and baked because that’s how my Grandma made them, although I rarely cook pork. Today I was trying to use up

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Bowl of cream of crab with parsley on leaf placemat

Old Bay

Maybe this is a Maryland thing, or at least the mid-Atlantic region, but everywhere you go they serve cream of crab soup. Some of the soups have sherry or white

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Toasts on plate.

Toasts

It’s Tony’s night on the meal schedule and he signed up for toasts for dinner – not toast, thank goodness! Toast would not cut it for me in the Breakfast-for-Dinner

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Lodge front with timber archways covered in white lights.

Clyde’s

I got sidetracked with the pretzel trout recipe yesterday and forgot to tell you about the second Lodge restaurant. I get to treat my team at work to a holiday

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Lodge and lots of trees lit up at night.

Food Views

In food news last month, a Dallas restaurant critic who previously only presented herself as an avatar, outed herself and may regret it since now restaurants know who to Not

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Pieces of kalacz on Christmas plate at work with coffee.

Hungarian Kalacz

My Grandma Breza called this bread roll “kalacz” (ka-loch), which means cake; this is a less sweet, eastern European version of a coffee cake. You can roll it with either

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