Category: Cookbooks

This is intensely peachy and lightly thymey. It's a great summer treat. I can't believe how much I love my ice cream maker. It does so many things -- gelatto, ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet and even frozen drinks. What can't it do? Fine. It can't knit a blanket. Whatever. Who wants to eat a …

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Lazy! Lazy! Lazy! And to think I have a whole other week off starting next Monday! Hooray! Okay. Enough of the gloating and the flaunting my time off. Let's talk about fritters -- mixed greens fritters to be exact. This recipe came from the cookbook, Modern Greek by Andy Harris, which is full of all …

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If I don't say so myself, this was a good use of some chicken, feta, mint and phyllo dough. Now that I am over my apprehension of working with phyllo, it was even relatively easy. My one nitpick though, is that the chicken seemed to get a little dry. The flavor was still excellent, though, …

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This month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge is picnic food. This is a great topic as it is very open -- there are so many foods that make for excellent picnic-fare. For this assignment, I reached for a very underused cookbook in my collection, Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. After a few minutes, I picked my recipe -- …

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