Mac & Cheese has always been my #1 comfort food. It was also one of the first dishes I learned how to make as a kid. My Mom diligently walked me through all the steps in making a perfect béchamel sauce only to joyfully smother it in heaps of melty cheese. This was the method…
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Gingerbread
I was not able to get my gingerbread fix over Christmas due to the dozens of cookies still hanging around, so I made sure to ring in of the New Year with this seasonal treat. For me a good gingerbread needs to be moist, heavily spiced, and served with a contrasting set of flavors to…
Philly Cheese Steaks
The occasional Philly Cheese Steak is one of the things that I sometimes miss about living in the mid-Atlantic region. The one time I had the gall to order one in a Vermont establishment it came served up on a French baguette topped in sharp cheddar cheese – tasty, but not what I would call…
Stollen
My Mother used to make stollen every year for Christmas. She readily employed a small army (her children) to undergo the labor intensive kneading process. We – gullible, young, and naive – would have a blast stretching, plopping, and mushing the dough around. This year I tried out a new stollen recipe adapted from Visions of…
Amelia’s Refrigerator Cookies
These are my Dad’s favorite cookies. His Grandmother, Amelia, used to make them for him each year around Christmas time, and now the task has fallen to me. These Refrigerator Cookies are some of the simplest cookies to make, but they check almost all the boxes of the perfect cookie list; buttery, crispy along the…
Chicken Pho – Simplified
With the wind-chill values hitting the negatives today I thought it would be a great time to break out the chicken soup recipes – I tend to think of Chicken Pho as a more elaborate, spiced version of chicken soup. My home-cooked Pho tends to be a more simplified take on the more traditional pho…
Gingerbread Bunnies
This is a recipe of my Mother’s. I have no idea where she found the recipe, but it has become one of those family Christmas cookies staples that we make every year. We usually use this recipe to make gingerbread men, but this year I was going for simple – figuring that the bunny shape…
Lila’s Cinnamon Rolls
Grandma Lila made the BEST cinnamon rolls! Sunday and Holiday mornings at Grandma Lila’s would start out several trays of sweet, gooey, goodness. She would make huge batches of them to feed her loving husband, 8 children, several in-laws, 20 grandchildren, family friends, and even a few great-grandchildren. Needless to say, she had it down…
