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I love homemade bread, but I don’t always have the time – or patience – to wait for dough to rise for a yeast bread. This easy and delicious Irish soda bread is a quick bread recipe transformed into moist scones rich with chunks of …
Easy Focaccia Bread with Homemade Italian Seasoning Almost everyone would agree that homemade bread is absolutely delicious, but the process can seem intimidating. Bread dough can be pretty temperamental, but there is nothing scary about this Easy Focaccia Bread with Homemade Italian Seasoning. With just …
A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able …
Ratatouille: Not Just a Chef Ratatouille, in addition to being a talented rodent chef, is also a traditional French dish. We ate a ton of it this summer, to my husband’s great displeasure. Ratatouille was the vegetable rich staple of his childhood and not a …
Today is my 37th wedding anniversary and it has me reminiscing about a lot of things, not the least of which is the fact that my husband left his home and family in France to come to the US to marry me. I guess you …
When are vegetables not like vegetables? When they taste DELICIOUS! Like this pureed butternut squash. Smooth, creamy, and flavored with maple syrup, cinnamon, butter, and heavy cream, you can eat this in place of mashed potatoes. We had this batch as a side to salmon, …
I have had Thanksgiving dinner in my house every year of my entire life except one. In that one mistake, my family decided to go to an uncle’s house. I’m sure it was fine for the most part, but we did find ourselves wandering into …
