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Grilled Shrimp Cocktail
Grilled Shrimp Cocktail It’s my baby’s birthday on July 3rd. Okay, so my baby is 26 and six-feet tall, but he’s still my baby. Every year we celebrate his July 3rd birthday with a backyard barbecue,...
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Panzanella Salad
Panzanella Salad I’m sure many of you are faced with the same harrowing dilemma that plagues my family week after week. You go to the market and buy one of those four-foot long French baguettes for...
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Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes with Roasted Onion Crema I seem to find inspiration in the strangest places. I was asked by a friend of mine who is a caterer If I would help her cater a large 50th birthday...
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Cucumber and Dill Soup
Cucumber and Dill Soup It’s funny how everybody’s been talking about kale lately, like it’s a Kardashian or something. For the last year or so it’s been the new “it” veg. I know a lot of you out there...
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Fresh Peach Cake
Fresh Peach Cake People will often come to me with that burning question, “Mama, what’s you favorite summer fruit to bake with?” Without wavering, I look them straight in the eye and answer,...
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Homemade Potato Salad
Homemade Potato Salad We’re going on a picnic! It’s hard to believe that Labor Day is just around the corner, and summer is coming to an end. Although, living in Southern California it seems as...
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Mushroom Soup
Mushroom Soup Mushrooms can be such a polarizing vegetable. I find people either love ‘em or hate ‘em. I find myself in the group that loves them. I love their earthiness, and their musky, woodsy...
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Roasted Pears with Yogurt
Roasted Pears Okay, raise your hand if you like to eat dessert first! Don’t be embarrassed, I’m totally willing to admit publicly that on many occasions I will have dessert before I eat my dinner....
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Autumn Apple Crumble
Apple Crumble I recently returned from a trip to the Philadelphia area. We went to visit my friends Carol and Larry who live in rural Bucks County, but it was also an opportunity for me to go “home”....
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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Toasted Meringue
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Toasted Meringue I live in a town called Calabasas. It’s home to such American luminaries as Drake, Jennifer Lopez, the Jackson’s and an overabundance of Kardashians. The word...
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Classic Apple Pie
Classic Apple Pie I think Classic Apple Pie is one of those dishes that everyone on the face of the planet loves. No really, I challenge you to find someone who doesn’t love it. If you know somebody,...
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Stuffing with Mushrooms and Apples
This is the weirdest thing, but I only eat stuffing once a year, that being at Thanksgiving time. It’s probably a wise choice being that carbohydrates are definitely not my friend, and stuffing is...
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Chocolate Bark with Almonds
Chocolate Bark with Almonds Well, I don’t mean to sound like a real Negative Nancy, but I find this holiday gift giving thing very stressful and frustrating. Each year I have given a myriad of socks,...
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Lemon Meringue Pie Shooters
Lemon Meringue Pie Shooters I remember the days (not fondly) when New Year’s Eve meant finding a wild party, a cute dress and a cuter date. It was so much pressure. For the last decade or so, we’ve...
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Coffee Cake Muffins
Coffee Cake Muffins Oh how I love the smell of cinnamon and chocolate in the morning. Now tell me, who doesn’t like to start their day with cake. Well, I do. This morning I have cousins Ted and Mary...
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Butterscotch Pudding Shooters
Butterscotch Pudding Shot Glass Dessert As a kid growing up in Philadelphia I can clearly remember those February days trudging home from school through several feet of snow. Our noses were frozen, our...
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Blueberry Lemon Bundt Cake
Blueberry Lemon Bundt Cake I’m not much for Hollywood award shows, but I’m not gonna lie, I love the Academy Awards. I love the spectacle of it, the gowns, the speeches, the whole shebang. I was...
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Toasted Coconut Doughnuts
Toasted Coconut Doughnuts I’m a bad, bad girl. Yesterday it poured here in Los Angeles, something it never does except maybe 5 times a year. So when it does happen, we folks here in LA become...
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Soft Pretzels
Soft Pretzels So often in life we are confronted with crucial life altering decisions. One of the most difficult for me is “Sweet or Salty”. I know you struggle with this one too. It’s not a decision...
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Apple Raisin Loaf Cake
Apple Raisin Loaf Cake Those who know me know that Mama, (that’s me) is not much of a reader. I am definitely not a reader of fiction I can tell you that. When I’m able to harness my attention to read...
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