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Double Mango Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-05-20T06:53:00.001-05:00

I am back home again from my two weeks’ holiday tour just in time for Muffin Monday and I couldn’t be more pleased about this week’s ingredient: Mango! When I was little and we lived in Trinidad, my favorite way of eating mangoes was with hot chili peppers and salt and a shot of ketchup, when the mangoes were still green. We called it mango chow. (I know, I know, I had strange

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Tilapia with Mushrooms, Artichokes, White Wine, Lemon and a Completely Unreasonable Amount of Cream

2013-05-16T06:00:00.000-05:00

Calling all heathens. You know who you are. We are about to have a biblical lesson. Not a Bible lesson exactly but I want to talk about fish. And listening to your mother, because she is probably right. Who remembers when we didn’t know what tilapia was? Never heard of it and then, seemingly, it was ubiquitous. On every fishy crushed ice spread in every grocery store. And bags and

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Jam Yogurt Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-05-13T06:00:00.000-05:00

The best part about these muffins is how versatile the recipe is. You can change the flavor by using whatever yogurt you have in the refrigerator, along with whatever jam you have on hand. This time I chose strawberry yogurt and a mixed berry jam but you could do peach yogurt with peach preserves or lemon yogurt with orange marmalade or, or, or … whatever combination takes your fancy. I

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Smothered Pork Chops with Potatoes

2013-05-12T06:00:00.000-05:00

We have a game in my family that my mother instigated. (And now you’ll know what a food obsessed family I come from.) It began as a way to pass time on road trips but now and again it comes up in different settings or if a new person wants to join the discussion. It’s a simple question: If you knew you were dying, let’s say you are on death row, what would your final meal request be? The

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Crisp Brick-fried Chicken with Rosemary, Thyme and Garlic

2013-05-09T06:07:00.000-05:00

Here’s a recipe I’ve been meaning to share for the longest time, (read from back when my photo taking skills were really pathetic - Sorry!) but other more pressing dishes got in the way. Which is rather ironic since this recipe calls for a great deal of pressing, so to speak, down on the chicken, so there is hardly a more pressing recipe. Yeah, okay. You are probably not laughing like I am

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Loaded Baked Potato Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-05-06T06:00:00.000-05:00

Imagine a loaded baked potato full of sharp cheddar and crispy bacon bits and sour cream and onion tops. In a muffin. No kidding. I think this is my favorite muffin so far. Have I said that before? Probably. But this time I really, really mean it. I ate two back to back, standing at the kitchen counter. And then I had to go sit down and clutch my chest. So rich, so good. Serve them

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Meyer Lemon Upside-down Cake

2013-05-02T07:18:00.000-05:00

The beauty of the internet is that we can learn about things that we would otherwise not experience in our lives. We gain access to information and products that might have been out of reach before. The downside of the internet is that sometimes it introduces us to things we still can’t have. For years now, I have been reading about Meyer lemons. They grow well in places with warm

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Banana Honey Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-04-29T08:20:00.000-05:00

We are coming up on six months in the desert and it occurred to me that I haven’t really shared that much about life here. At least not like I feel I did when we were in Cairo. I guess it is that Dubai is such a modern city that it doesn’t feel that different in many ways, from other places we have lived. My neighborhood is surrounded by vast desert wasteland with little in the way of

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Pan-fried Scallops with Garlic Chili Linguine for #SundaySupper

2013-04-28T01:15:00.000-05:00

This week’s #SundaySupper theme is a challenge: Try something new. A technique, a new ingredient, a new ethnic cuisine. Just something new that might be considered adventurous. You may find this hard to believe, but I had never cooked scallops. I was always just a little bit intimidated by their thickness and the fact that they should be just cooked, not too much, not too little, to be

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Lemon and Cilantro Crusted White Fish for #Random Recipe Challenge

2013-04-24T11:33:00.001-05:00

This month’s Random Recipe Challenge has the same rules as always, it’s just gotten a little more high tech, with Dom over at +belleau kitchen creating a random number generator for us to use. I have seen these, as I am sure you have, on blogs that do giveaways but I had never used one myself. Good fun and more probably more random than my usual method, which is to make someone give me a

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Cheesy Spinach Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-04-22T08:48:00.000-05:00

There are a few staples I keep in my freezer, just in case. Frozen spinach is one of them. In a pinch, spinach can be thawed quickly and added into omelets or quiches or cheesy sauces for pasta. It adds color and nutritional value without an overly strong or objectionable flavor. It is also beautiful added into muffins. (See exhibit A, above.) This week’s Muffin Monday ingredient is

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Brigadeiros for #SundaySupper

2013-04-21T01:11:00.002-05:00

This week, #SundaySupper is celebrating celebrating. What I mean is, we are sharing recipes that are perfect for showers. Baby showers, bridal showers or whatever lovely gathering you are planning this month. Our host is Brandie from Home Cooking Memories, so I think she will appreciate that I reached back to one of my favorite times to share this party favorite. Brigadeiros are an

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Almost Gwyneth's Fudgy Brownies

2013-04-18T07:05:00.000-05:00

I was sitting around the house this past Monday (actually on my laptop making comments on many of the movie-inspired #SundaySupper posts – so many fabulous ones!) and suddenly, on Facebook (yeah, okay, you got me, also reading Facebook) a link popped up for these brownies. It was posted by a friend who is trying to eat more healthily (Hi, Claire!) and she said that, for healthy

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Jammy Peanut Butter Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-04-15T04:10:00.000-05:00

I know, I know you are probably saying to yourself, “But she just DID peanut butter.” And, so I did. But this week, our ingredient was jam and what goes better with jam than peanut butter? I submit to you that the correct answer is NOTHING. I used the lovely peanut buttery muffin recipe from My Baking Addiction and then swirled jam through the batter to create these lovely things. And

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Spicy Sichuan Noodles for #SundaySupper

2013-04-14T04:47:00.001-05:00

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Cookies and Cream Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-04-08T06:34:00.000-05:00

It’s Monday so we are baking muffins again! As we do. Or, I should say, as I do. Anyone out there baking with me? Here’s a muffin I don’t think you are going to be able to resist. Our ingredient this week is the classic Oreo, which made its debut in 1912 so they are the same age as my beloved grandfather (if he weren’t dead) which means they turned 100 last year. Did you hear of any

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Tarka Dal or Curry Lentils for #SundaySupper

2013-04-07T04:00:00.001-05:00

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Cherry Blueberry Cheesecake Bundt for #BundtaMonth

2013-04-03T06:34:00.003-05:00

While I was in Houston for a week visiting family, I decided that it would be a good time to bake my Bundt for April’s BundtaMonth because 1. Time would be short when I got back to Dubai and 2. I had been invited over for dinner and 3. I found this lovely Bundt pan in my cupboard. As I might possibly have said to my BundtaMonth friends, you know you have too many baking pans when you

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Garlic Mushroom Parmesan Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-04-01T05:06:00.005-05:00

This week’s Muffin Monday ingredient is mushrooms! I have to admit that when I first got the email, I was taken aback. As much as I love mushrooms, I wasn’t sure about mushroom muffins. But I am never at a loss for muffin inspiration for long. I sautéed the mushrooms with a healthy helping of fresh garlic and butter because mushrooms and garlic and butter are best friends. And they play

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Lemon Poppy Seed Sweet Bread for #SundaySupper

2013-03-31T03:00:00.000-05:00

We are all about citrus this #SundaySupper! Our host for this Easter Sunday is the delightful Jen from Juanita’s Cocina and, like me, she would choose lemony desserts over chocolate ones. Because we are special like that. When I read the theme for this week, I knew I wanted to bake bread because I am still in Providence visiting my daughters and I can buy fresh yeast at the neighborhood

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Prawn Patia for #RandomRecipeChallenge

2013-03-28T20:13:00.000-05:00

I am either very brave or rather reckless. The other night, I invited folks over for dinner to try out a whole new randomly chosen recipe, one I had never made before. Granted, they were mostly college students and two of them were my daughters so it wasn’t a tough crowd. But time was getting short (again!) for participating in +belleau kitchen's Random Recipe Challenge where, according

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Caesar Dressing with Anchovies OR Capers

2013-03-26T08:37:00.000-05:00

Among friends in Kuala Lumpur, my most requested dish to bring to a potluck is my Caesar salad. I always made it just by pouring a little of this and a lot of that in a large measuring cup while not actually measuring. But when folks started requesting the recipe, I had to take measure. My original recipe calls for a small can of anchovies. I would like to give credit for the caper

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Peanut Butter M&M Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-03-25T08:56:00.002-05:00

Way back when I was a freshman (first year) at the University of Texas at Austin, I lived in an all-girls dorm called Contessa West. It was suite-style, which meant three bedrooms with two girls each and a tiny common area in which you could not swing the proverbial cat, with a round table, four chairs, a two-burner electric stove, a hotel refrigerator and a bathroom-sized kitchen sink.

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Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

2013-03-21T07:29:00.000-05:00

Way back in February, I was minding my own business when a certain post from Katherine at Eggton arrived in my inbox. It was witty and fun, much like Katherine herself, and the recipe was for a tasty grilled cheese sandwich made with cheddar and cream cheese and ham. It gave me a scathingly brilliant idea! (Anybody else grow up watching Hayley Mills in the Trouble with Angels movies?)

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Rosemary Cheddar Cornbread Muffins for #MuffinMonday

2013-03-18T08:18:00.000-05:00

I was in Providence, Rhode Island this week, baking in my elder daughter’s kitchen. First I went to the grocery store and fondled the fresh yeast, whispering to the tiny foil-wrapped cubes that I would be back next week for Spring Break. And I bought rosemary, cornmeal and sharp cheddar cheese for this week’s #MuffinMonday. Our required ingredient is rosemary, one of my favorite herbs and

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