Category: Cooking

Recipe Post: 15-Minute Cream of Broccoli Soup

Is it possible to make fresh, nourishing soup from scratch in 15 minutes? I say yes it is, mainly because I did that very thing just the other day for my lunch. Working from home has some advantages, one of which is not having to meal prep as I can make a fresh lunch for…

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Recipe Post: Leftover Thanksgiving Dinner Meat Muffins

An old friend of mine used to talk about her single father’s, er, creativity in the kitchen, and how once he came up with an “ingenious”, time-saving recipe of meatloaf made in muffin tins. Which of course, he called “Meat Muffins” and in fact penned a charming little song about them too. While I won’t…

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Recipe Collection: 7 Squash Recipes for Your Thanksgiving Table

Squash is such a perfectly autumnal vegetable, signaling the end of harvest season for much of the country, not to mention its historical value as a nutrient-dense food. According to the American Library of Congress: “Squashes are one of the oldest known crops–10,000 years by some estimates of sites in Mexico. Since squashes are gourds, they…

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Recipe Review: Scalloped Potatoes by Gimme Some Oven

I must confess; since I was quite young, I’ve been making the same recipe-without-a-recipe scalloped potatoes. I watched my mother make it several times and then made the recipe myself as a duplicate to hers, with a frustratingly low 65-70% success rate. I’ve always figured that my hit-or-miss percentage on this recipe was because I…

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Recipe Post: Cauliflower Cheese Pie

My father, a proud British man and a pretty decent plain-cook in his own right, had an absolute passion for making and eating Cauliflower Cheese Pie (which is of course a casserole, not a pie, but that was its name and that’s what I shall continue to call it). He also had quite a preference…

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