What is your favorite Mole recipe, and why? Is it a family recipe or an official/published recipe? Please share. Mole is a very thick, Mexican sauce with complex flavors. There are several versions that usually feature dried chile, nuts, seeds,...
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My favorite desert in the world is this chocolate cake and I just read that the Washington Post printed 209 1/2's sour cream chocolate cake recipe about 20 years ago. Anyone have it? I'm desperate now that I know is...
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I am trying to find a recipe for a dish that is supposed to be Swedish. It is 1/2 ground pork, 1/2 ground beef with spices in a sort of stew with potato balls and a white gravy? I have...
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I made biscotti once in a cooking class I took, unfortunately I have no idea where the easy and yummy recipe went. Anyone have good recipes to share? Thanks....
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I have seen lots of references to making one's own ricotta on this site and would love to try it sometime. Anyone here willing to share their go-to recipe/technique??...
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When DH came home from having coffee with MIL on Saturday, he brought home six containers of peach yogurt. Apparently someone gave her a bunch and it was more than she can use. So she passed them on to me....
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Well, in order to celebrate the fact that I have finally moved out and into my own home, and since it's only my parents and myself for Christmas, and since we just had the big turkey dinner for Thanksgiving and...
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I would like to make a chicken pot pie today using the pastry. Can I just make the good stuff and then just lay the pastry over it? Should it be defrosted first? Egg washed? Does it have any special...
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Going to family later this week, and week I'm currently trying to decide what to bake - It's about a 2 hour drive, and we leave around 6am to arrive by 8 for breakfast. I'm thinking about baking cinnamon rolls...
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Tomorrow night I am having some other poor old mama's over for some serious eating. Nothing fancy—lots of chocolate. I would love some fattening, eat-until-you-feel-sick recipes. For example, cream cheese, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 sugar, teaspoon vanilla and chopped...
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