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December 18, 2007

WCC 23: Celebratory Lamb Stew with Olives and Caramelized Onions

This month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge is hosted by Mel's Diner with the aptly chosen, Celebration Dishes as the theme. For this, I chose my newest cookbook, Nigella Express and made a lamb stew from it. She calls it a tagine, but since I didn't cook it in an actual tagine and I'm not familiar enough …

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December 13, 2007

Linguine with Black Olives, Pine Nuts and Raisins

Okay, I am turning over a new leaf. I am going to try really, really hard to get back into posting at least 3 times per week. Really! Here's a super-good pasta recipe. When we were in Ashland last October, I caught some of Lidia's Family Table on PBS and fell in love with the …

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October 22, 2007

WCC21: Halloween: The Round-Up

First of all, thanks so much to Sara of Weekend Cookbook Challenge for letting me guest-host this month! I had a great time picking a theme and I hope everyone had fun participating. And here are some nifty new seasonal recipes to try this month. So, what kind of food does Halloween evoke? Soups, root …

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October 16, 2007

WCC21: Roasted Honey Parsnip Bisque

I recently got the cookbook, Talk with your Mouth Full by Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh and I absolutely love it. So many pages turned down of recipes that I want to make. This first one I thought would be perfect for the Halloween theme I chose for this month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge, which I …

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September 20, 2007

SHF35: Figs Ahoy!

Sugar High Friday, hosted by Cream Puffs in Venice is all about figs this month. Awesome. I really like figs. For this SHF I turned towards perhaps the perfect cookbook for this event -- The Girl and the Fig cookbook, one that I really like. In fact, I'm trying to finagle my way into lunch …

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