Holiday Ham with Apple Bourbon Glaze
Holiday Ham with Apple Bourbon Glaze
Holiday Ham with Apple Bourbon Glaze
May 03, 2025
Easter Ham Thanksgiving

This recipe is for “ready to eat” or “fully cooked” hams—not fresh hams. Try to buy hams that have been minimally processed, preferably, bone-in and unsliced with a nice cap of fat.

apple bourbon easter +4
Best French Toast, Ever
Best French Toast, Ever
Best French Toast, Ever
Best French Toast, Ever
Apr 26, 2025
Breakfast Brunch

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This is a breakfast fit for a King, I mean husband. Serve my wonderful daughter breakfast in bed. She woke up happy.  Adapted fromÂ...

brown sugar brown sugar +10
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas
Apr 13, 2025
Beef Mexican Restaurant

3 pounds ground beef
1 pound chorizo (if you don’t like, substitute with additional ground beef)
1/4 cup taco seasoning (or more to your taste)
red enchilada sauce or Mexican style hot tomato sauce

salt and pepper

corn tortillas

Corn Oil
Mexican...

beef chorizo ground beef +3
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sage
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sage
Mar 14, 2025
Italian Restaurant Vegetarian

Recipe (Modified from a recipe in Gourmet, 1997)

Filling:
2 c. roasted butternut squash
1 medium onion, chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 T. fresh chopped
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 garlic clove, minced
3 ounces aged goat cheese, grated or you can...

butternut squash hazelnuts +2
Mashed Potatoes with Black Walnut Oil
Mashed Potatoes with Black Walnut Oil
Mar 06, 2025
Side Dishes Thanksgiving

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black black walnut oil oil +3
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Very Cherry Vanilla Jelly
Feb 26, 2025
Jams and Jelly My Cannery

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Very Cherry Cherry Vanilla Jelly

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jelly cherry vanilla
Creamed Corn with Lime
Creamed Corn with Lime
Creamed Corn with Lime
Feb 15, 2025
Eat your vegetables

Wow, this is good. This is Tom Keller’s recipe for Creamed Corn from his Ad Hoc Cookbook. The base taste is lime chiffon with sweet corn. This is a keeper recipe.Â

Fresh corn on the cob or quick frozen corn.Â

1/2 Cup Sweet or sour Cream Cream...

corn creamed creamed corn +1
Fig and Olive Tapenade
Fig and Olive Tapenade
Jan 23, 2025
Appetizers Fan Favorites My Pantry


I was telling someone the other day that I hadn’t found a tapenade that I loved. I happen to love olives, but tapenade from the store has been left many a month in my refrigerator. Just don’t like it. That is until I was browsing the internet and...

kalmata olives fig +1
Irish Soda Bread
Irish Soda Bread
Irish Soda Bread
Jan 21, 2025
Bread

bread irish quick bread +3
Tomato, Sweet Pepper and Garbanzo Soup with Rosemary
Tomato, Sweet Pepper and Garbanzo Soup with Rosemary
Jan 13, 2025
Soup Kitchen

Roasted Tomato and Sweet Peppers with Garbanzo Beans and Rosemary

garbanzo beans garbanzo beans +6
Grilled Fish Tacos
Grilled Fish Tacos
Grilled Fish Tacos
Dec 24, 2024
Mexican Restaurant Ocean's Best Seafood

A small place out on silver strand beach sold fish tacos and I had them about 25 years ago. They weren’t very fashionable back then, but they have gotten to be more and more so. Most places you get your choice grilled or breaded.Â

Grilled is...

fish recipe tacos +1
Cream Anglaise
Cream Anglaise
Dec 15, 2024
Fan Favorites My Bakery

Creme Anglaise (the base of vanilla ice cream) is the French translation for custard sauce. There are two types of custard; cooked (stirred) and baked. The difference being that 'baked' custards contain whole eggs and are cooked 'in' a water bath...

sauce topping cream