November 2006 – Page 3

November 8, 2006

It's Pot Roast! It's Actually Good…Really!

When I was growing up, we had pot roast pretty often. My grandmother would make it at least once a month and wow, did I hate it. Now, times then were different and she was cooking for a husband who refused to eat both garlic and onion (blasphemy!!!) but still, it was pretty bad. I …

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November 6, 2006

Spotlight On Baking: From My Home To Yours #2: Real Butterscotch Pudding

This is part two of my post for Sara's spotlight on the cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. Except, it's not baking at all! Ha! It's cooking and chilling. That's right, I cook and then I chill. Okay, then. When I saw this recipe (in fact, I spotted this recipe before …

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November 5, 2006

Spotlight On Baking: From My Home To Yours #1: Swedish Visiting Cake

Today's recipe is for Sara's (of Weekend Cookbook Challenge fame) collection of posts about Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. The recaps of everyone's contribution to this event will be posted at the Weekend Cookbook Challenge site soon. So check them all out when they are up! First off, this is a …

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November 4, 2006

Pumpkins!

Just a few silly shots of our Halloween pumpkins. Carving away... Finally done. Boo!

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November 3, 2006

The First Risotto of the Season: Shrimp, Garbanzo Bean & Cherry Tomato Risotto

This was one of those, "hmmmm, I wonder what I could throw into a risotto?" kind of meals. Really, once you have arborio rice, broth, wine and Parmesan cheese, anything else goes. So, I had a bag of interesting green garbanzo beans from Trader Joe's in the freezer. I also had about a half pound …

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