I recently came into a bumper crop of fresh herbs here in the middle of winter! What to do? Make an Herb and Chive Compound Butter! I started out with a handful of fresh sage, maybe two dozen chives, and a large handful of curly-leaf parsley. I softened 1/2 pound of unsalted butter. The butter […]
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Today’s Ask Chef Christy moment came while volunteering with the Atlanta Free Store. On this brisk National Day of Service (Martin Luther King Jr Day) we were out giving away free food on a busy street corner in metro Atlanta. One of the boxes we had contained bags of parsnips, and one after another person
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In the Southern United States, the tradition of cooking a big pot of greens to go along with black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day stretches back to Colonial Times. Hoppin’ John, a combination of black-eyed peas and rice that originated in South Carolina is a favorite along with crusty cornbread baked in hot cast iron.
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I woke up this morning with a craving for latkes. I know it is the first night of Hannukah tonight, and I guess my inner holiday chef is calling the shots. I won’t post a recipe here because I used a boxed mix and improvised out of my freezer, but they are wonderful nevertheless. I
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I am very excited to announce that my newest cookbook, “Mrs. Claus Cooks for Holiday Entertaining” is now available on the Cookbook Cafe at Bakespace.com! It is full of traditional food favorites from around the world, hand picked to make it easy
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Turkey may be the star of the Thanksgiving dinner table, but the side dishes are by far our favorites, and the Dressing vs Stuffing controversy is trotted out every year for everyone to voice an opinion.
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My niece is a very clever woman. She mentioned that she had made some cinnamon maple pumpkin seeds, and that sounded so good, I had to try some for myself. She’s really on to something here! This has been a very pumpkin-intensive month here, and with Halloween night comes a batch of pumpkin seeds out
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This may or may not be my last pumpkin post of the season, but we are experiencing an unexpected pumpkin bounty here, so Pumpkin Salsa seemed like a great idea. I was gifted with this enormous Banana Squash, along with some yellow-fleshed Acorn Squash, creamy yellow-skinned and white-fleshed Summer Squash, and some miniature decorative pumpkins.
Mastering Gluten Free Baking is always a challenge, and I have produced many bricks of dense and gummy products here that have never seen the light of day. In experimenting with a Banana Bread recipe though, I have something that I deem to be Pretty Good, and worth making again. Here is what I did:
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