Author: Ellen
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My Favorite Dishes of 2018
I know it’s popular to do a rundown of the most popular recipes on a food blog, and I probably will do that, but I also wanted to highlight my personal favorites. These are new to me dishes that I’ve already made more than once this year. Roasted Green Olives. These are cooked with orange…
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Beef Stroganoff
I had a hard time deciding what to make for Christmas dinner this year. We don’t have any firm food traditions for Christmas dinner. Christmas breakfast is always cinnamon rolls, sausage, scrambled eggs and orange juice (with champagne now that the girls are grown!). We varied that a little this year because my youngest wanted…
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Chickpeas and Sausage
I’m cleaning up the site again (does it ever end?) and converting recipes, finding recipes that didn’t make it to WordPress when I moved things, adding photos, reworking things. So please let me know if you see anything wonky. This recipe for Chickpeas and Sausage came from Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin. I’d…
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Crockpot Spaghetti Sauce
We had our 23rd annual Gingerbread House Day on Sunday. I always cook something in the crockpot so that lunch is ready as we are winding down from the decorating. Most of us have nibbled on candy and are craving a good meal. I often make crockpot spaghetti sauce.
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Pasta with Beet Greens
When I was at the farmer’s market the other day, the lady in front of me was buying beets, as was I. But as her items were being bagged, she asked the farmer to cut off the beet greens! The farmer stuffed them in a bag that already had several bunches of beet greens in…