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I like recipes where you do just a little bit of preparation the night before and the ingredients do most of the work while you’re sleeping. This is one of those recipes, and the results are amazingly delicious for such a little bit of effort. All you have to do is put frozen rolls in [...]
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It’s fall, definitely. Just last week I posted a Summer Harvest soup, and now summer seems so long ago. Here in Chicago, the days are suddenly much shorter, there’s dry dead leaves swirling everywhere as the wind blows in the new season, and there are pumpkins piled up in front of all the grocery [...]
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This is a fairly easy flat bread that you can flavor with any herb. I used basil because I have so much of it in my garden, but you could easily substitute oregano, parsley or dill. I used fresh, but dried probably works well too. It’s a delicious, soft, slightly chewy bread with just a [...]
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One beautiful day a few years ago I went hiking at Matthiessen State Park near Utica, IL, for several hours with Natalie and Paul. We hiked across streams, up waterfalls, over canyons and through white pine forests. Afterwards, a bit sore and very hungry, we stopped at Duffy’s Tavern, a local Irish pub (i.e., heaven) [...]
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Chapathis are delicious unleavened bread that are a traditional Indian accompaniment to all meals. When I was a child, I remember my friends’ father would make these (Mr. Saikia was from India) and I was in awe at how quickly and easily he made these treats; the fact that they bubbled up was even more [...]
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This recipe is a variation on quick Irish Soda Bread, with the addition of cheese and garlic. One member of the family who shall remain nameless thought it was “too spicy” but those of us with hardier palettes thought the flavors were perfect, and the aroma was amazing. Cheese and garlic can be omitted, or [...]
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This sandwich is another one from my days as a waitress at the private doctors’ dining room at Rush-Pres-St.Luke’s Hospital (Room 500) during college. I am not sure of the original name of this sandwich, but I remember it alluded to healthiness due to the addition of sprouts and spinach. This was Chicago in the [...]
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I discovered this recipe in the February 2009 Bon Apetit; it is from the Taku Glacier Lodge in Juneau, Alaska (I couldn’t find an online version of this reader restaurant recipe request).
Parmesan cheese, herbs and easy — that’s my kind of biscuit. I modified the ingredients (I do not have dried milk powder laying around, [...]
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Although two of my grandparents are from Ireland, and I have relatives there who run a bakery in Dublin, sadly I have no family soda bread recipes to cherish, bake or share, and so it was off to the Internet to find one. I found gazillions of recipes, and all include the primary ingredients of [...]
