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Category: Recipes

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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Garnished chilaquiles in pan.

Breakfast for Dinner

Sometimes when you need a quick dinner and have eggs, you can either go for the fallback of breakfast for dinner, or spruce them up in a new egg recipe.

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Hushpuppy appetizer and cocktail sauce with tilapia.

Hushpuppies

One night when we were walking back from our cluster mailboxes – we do not get door to door mail service here (kind of un-American isn’t it?) – we ducked

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squeezing lemon on the completed fish in pan.

Caper Sauce

Happy Leftover Friday! Today is a great day for leftovers for anyone who hosted a big dinner yesterday; in some cases they’re even better the next day. A common theme

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Serving of pie with whipped cream.

Pumpkin Pie

Happy Thanksgiving! Every day it is good to feel gratitude for what we have. Not only does it feel good in the moment, but it changes the energy level around

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Serving kale and pork with paprika garnish

Kale Dilemma

I need to take a green vegetable for Thanksgiving, and I don’t feel like taking beans. The farm market I went to was out of Brussels sprouts so I settled

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Serving fried fish and lemon on vegetable bed.

Ragout

Today it warmed up enough to go out in the back yard and do a few things, like make the kids rake the leaves . I brought in sticks and

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Warm and toasty-looking sweet potato biscuits

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Last summer my son spent a couple of weeks at an overnight camp that had a Parents’ Day — I told you a little about it back in July. We

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Carrot soup in bowl with garnish

Carrot Soup

At the one-year-old’s birthday party that I went to this summer, the mom made a cold carrot soup to go with chicken salad sandwiches. I’ve been meaning to make it

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strong popeye the sailor man

Creamed Spinach

It’s no surprise that spinach is a super food due to its rich dark green leaves. Previously I talked about the calcium and vitamin content, and Popeye loved it for

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