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Cornbread Salad from A Gracious Plenty
I saw this Cornbread Salad in A Gracious Plenty, a cookbook I read about on the Chowhound home cooking board. (Warning: This board can do serious damage to your cookbook budget!) Even though it didn’t win the “cookbook of the month” (where everyone cooks and reviews recipes from the same cookbook), I wanted it. The…
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Mom’s Apple Walnut Cake
I have this recipe on an old recipe card in my Mom’s handwriting. I used to make it when the girls were little and our apple trees were bursting with fruit…then somehow I didn’t make it anymore. I ran across it the other day and had just picked some apples so I made it again,…
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Lidia’s Zucchini and Rice Tart
My niece is coming for dinner tonight and I thought it would be fun to have something to nibble on while I’m fixing dinner. I saw this zucchini and rice tart and thought it sounded good and would taste fine the next day so I made it last night. I roughly halved the original recipe…
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Cream Scones with Sweetened Dried Cranberries
When my girls were young, some other neighborhood moms and I would walk downtown really early on Saturday mornings to a certain coffee shop that had the best scones. My favorites were the cranberry ones. I’ve tried baking scones multiple times and while they were good, they never had the texture that I liked so…
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Jicama Salad with Arugula, Romaine and Lime-Cilantro Dressing
I’d forgotten how much I like jicama. I used to just cut it up and serve it with vegetables anytime we did vegetables and dip at parties but I can’t remember the last time I bought one. I saw this jicama salad in Mexican Everyday by Rick Bayless and decided it would make a great…