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Great Food Can Make Great Memories

FETTUCINE WITH CRAB, ALA ALICE & GOLDEN GATE ONION DRESSING At a recent dinner party, a friend asked my husband, “Do you always eat like this”?  “No”, the jokester replied, “she usually just heats up a can of soup”. I will deal with him later. However, it started me thinking about my love of cooking [...]

March 31, 2007 · Jude · Comments Closed
Posted in: Italian, Pasta, Salsas & Sauces, Seafood

Leftovers today, tasty salads tomorrow!

Bar T Barbecue Sauce, Bronco Barbecue Bread & Chuck Wagon Vinagrette Do you ever feel like a jalapeno in a nuclear reactor, at the moment of meltdown? So it seems when you are stuck in a hot kitchen during a heat wave. Even barbecuing burgers in the back forty, can be a blistering business when [...]

October 14, 2006 · Jude · Comments Closed
Posted in: Breads, Salads & Dressings, Salsas & Sauces

BBQ Without the Grill

Bar T Barbecue Sauce, Bronco Barbecue Bread & Chuck Wagon Vinaigrette You know how certain smells bring back memories? In fact, our sense of smell has the best memory of all our senses. When I smell chocolate, I remember our first apartment. It was down wind from the Guitard Chocolate Company – talk about your sweet dreams! [...]

August 19, 2006 · Jude · Comments Closed
Posted in: Breads, Salads & Dressings, Salsas & Sauces

Shanghai Surprise

Sometimes you just have to break the rules! Throughout the centuries, there have been recipe rebels that have pushed the pancake and defied the dumpling. In the early 1930’s, Ruth Wakefield , owner of the Toll House Inn went into her kitchen to make a batch of Butter Drop Do Cookies, but found she had [...]

July 29, 2006 · Jude · Comments Closed
Posted in: Appetizers, Salsas & Sauces

Salt 101

Better for you Bechamel Sauce, Chicken Breasts with Sweet & Sexy BBQ Sauce and Roasted Rosemary Garlic Potatoes What do Tutankhamen, Marie Antoinette and Mr. Peanut have in common? Stumped? The answer is salt! Salt has played a prominent role in world history, and not just because of its contribution to French fries and pretzels. [...]

May 16, 2006 · Jude · Comments Closed
Posted in: Chicken, Salsas & Sauces