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From the monthly archives:
I receive Kraft’s free food & family magazine, which you can sign up for here. It’s quite a nice magazine even if it really exists to promote Kraft products. The layout and photographs are just as glossy and professional as the gourmet magazines. And the recipes are very practical and easy to make. I’ve decided [...]
Chef Genuine writes in: I just received this recipe for French Toast Casserole as a result of my "What’s your favorite breakfast?" post. I told Betsy at My Whim Is Law that I would pass it on to you for This Mama Cooks. Thanks Chef Genuine and Betsy! This recipe sounds amazing and extremely decadent [...]
We have a huge supply of venison thank to Big Bad Dad’s hunting efforts. I cook it up like beef, except for extra seasoning and fat/oil, since the meat can be gamey and is very lean. I saw this recipe by Lia Mack Huber in the November 2004 issue of Cooking Light. Beef Daube Provencal [...]
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and aren’t having too much of a problem dealing with all those leftovers. If you are, you may want to try out a couple of these ideas at iVillage by author, Holly Clegg. Or these recipes from PastryWhiz.com. Anyway, I’m looking for a few good cookie recipes. [...]
Our first recipe from fellow blogger, Chef Genuine, is for Caribbean Scotch Bonnet Pepper Sauce. If you like it hot, this promises to do the trick. I hope to feature some of Chef Genuine’s crock pot recipes in the near future if he ever emails me the recipes. (hint, hint) Chef Genuine writes: Things seem [...]
Our final contenders for the pumpkin pie contest are Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Rum Cream from the December 2004 issue of Healthy Cooking magazine and One-Bowl Pumpkin Pie from the November/December 2004 issue of Weight Watchers Magazine. Healthy Cooking is a wonderful magazine that unfortunately is hard to find and doesn’t have much of a [...]
Michelle D. writes in, “What is wrong with the pumpkin pie recipe on the can of Kuner’s pumpkin? It is traditional and SO very delish!” Indeed, what’s wrong with being traditional? While I don’t have the Kuner’s recipe, I do have LIBBY’S (That’s what I’ve been buying since they’re on sale and I have coupons [...]
This week, I have two words for the lunch-challenged: Goat cheese. This is cheese made from goats. Or cheese that goats eat. Not sure which. Just kidding! One taste and you will never go back to cream cheese, I promise. The taste is a little like a mild cheddar, but milkier, if that makes sense. [...]
After searching all the cooking magazines’ Thanksgiving issues, I realize that pecan pie is almost as traditional as pumkin pie. Now I love a good pecan pie, but I like pumpkin pie, too. So maybe a compromise between pumpkin and pecan pie is needed. Thus our second contender for the pumpkin pie contest, Pecan Pumpkin [...]
I’ve been searching for good pumpkin pie recipes in all the Thanksgiving cooking magazines. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that Food & Wine and Martha Stewart Living magazines don’t have any! Sacrilegious! Isn’t there some kind of law that says you must serve pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving or you’ll be banned from future family [...]
For my 40th birthday party, Big Bad Dad made me a Mexican style ceviche with some of the fish he caught in Baja Mexico. It was wonderful. La Paz Style CevicheThis is based on the seviche recipes from The New Joy of Cooking and is adjusted to be more like the seviche Big Bad Dad [...]
This year we’re going to a friend’s home for Thanksgiving. I’ve been asked to bring dessert. Besides the Pumpkin Streusel Cheesecake, I’d like to make a traditional (or not-so-traditional) pumpkin pie. But which one? There are so many pumpkin pie recipes out there that I’d appreciate a suggestion. Do you have a favorite pumpkin pie [...]
My mother-in-law Melba Jean has celiac sprue. Basically she cannot eat anything with gluten in it or she’ll become violently ill. She’s been staying with us for the past two weeks and is leaving tomorrow. While she’s here, she’d like to celebrate my birthday with us. (I turn 40 on Monday.) Since this means I’m [...]
I’m jealous of Kyle Wagner, the food critic at The Denver Post. In today’s paper she wrote about her week-long trip on the American Orient Express’s Pacific Coast Culinary Explorer (Scenes from the dining car). This is my dream trip. You travel by train up the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. You eat [...]
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