Knickerbocker Soup is a U.S. Navy tradition, filled with beans, carrots, and tomatoes and garnished with bacon.
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Hors d’Oeuvre Potluck for Twelve
Ham and Cheese / Chicken Salad Open-Faced Sandwiches on French Bread These are simple, two-bite canapés, although “canapé” seems like too fancy a word to describe them. They’re easy and casual, but nonetheless delicious and attractive. Ingredients to make at least 48, serving at least 12: 2 baguettes¾ lbs. ham, sliced 1/8-inch thick8 oz. Gruyère, […]
Leftover Thanksgiving Chickeny Turkey Soup with Buttermilk Dumplings
This recipe for Leftover Thanksgiving Chickeny Turkey Soup with Buttermilk Dumplings produces a comfort food that can stand up to the dreariest, early-winter chill.
Foil-Baked Cod with Ginger, Orange, and Cumin
Foil-Baked Cod with Ginger, Orange, and Cumin. And spinach. It’s wonderful, no fuss, hardly any clean-up … it almost clears the table and does the dishes afterward. That’s how good it is.
Dark Chocolate, Burnt Orange Cake. Plus, a discussion of magic strips.
Part 2: last week’s chocolate-orange fantasy continues. In this post, you’ll learn how to put this four-layer, ganache-drenched, silk buttercream-filled, Dark Chocolate, Burnt Orange Cake together.
Gluten-Free Taco Night
Gluten-Free Taco Night with steak tacos, homemade corn tortillas and homemade refried beans, plus blackberry margarita punch (tequila, cassis, ginger beer)
Phenomenal Polish Smoked Sausage Soup
Phenomenal Polish Smoked Sausage Soup, properly called “White Borscht,” is a kielbasa soup, heavy with root vegetables (including potatoes, but not beets), mushrooms, and topped off with a dollop of sour cream (and perhaps a hard-boiled (Easter) egg). Great recipe. Reheats well.
Dinner for Four: Beef Tenderloin
Treat your guests to a whiskey-glazed Beef Tenderloin dinner for four. In addition to the main-course roast, this menu includes cocktails, roasted vegetables, and a spice cake with apples and brandied cherries.
Christmas Menu for Six: Dinner Fit for a King … or Three Kings … and Three of Their Guests
Christmas Menu for Six: feta-stuffed French bread, coffee-encrusted pork roast, hasselback potato gratin, carrots with whiskey and ginger, caramelized Brussels sprouts, raspberries and cheese, black forest buche de noel