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How Can You Make Valentine's Day Fun Without Pressure?

My Partner and I have a tradition of eating Popeye's Chicken and really nice chocolate truffles on Vday.

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How Can You Make Valentine's Day Fun Without Pressure?

My Partner and I have a tradition of eating Popeye's Chicken and really nice chocolate truffles on Vday.

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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Holidays'

three tier devils food cake with chocolate ganache between each layer with the whole thing covered in white icing.

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Saving Family Recipes - Do You Have A Cookbook?

I'm currently working on a family cookbook to give my mom and her sisters for mothers day this year. I plan to use the online service at blurb.com where you can actually create and publish your own book.

I have been gathering and restoring old photos of my parents, their siblings, and my grandparents at various family functions and my plan is to include lots of those photos along with pictures of the completed meals.

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Braised Chicken

Another dish that I make at least once a month is Spanish Chicken and Chorizo Paella. I don't have a Paella pan or large deep skillet so I just make it in my large cast iron dutch oven. I also just make it chicken thighs instead of dealing with a whole chicken. (I actually saw this on the Paula's Home Cooking on the Food Network).

1/4 cup olive oil
1 chicken, cut legs, drumsticks and thighs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons paprika
1 large onion, diced
1 large green bell pepper, diced
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes
4 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 pound Spanish style chorizo links, cut into slices on the bias
2 cups short-grain rice (recommended: Valencia or Arborio)
Pinch saffron threads
1 cup fresh or frozen green peas
Lemon wedges, for service


Heat a paella pan or very large, shallow skillet or pot, preferably with 2 handles over high heat.
Cook's note: A large cast iron skillet would work here.
Pour in the olive oil and let it heat up. Season the chicken all over with salt, pepper and paprika. Sear in the olive oil until browned all over. Transfer to a plate with tongs.

Lower the heat to medium and saute the onions and bell pepper until softened. Stir in the diced tomatoes, chicken broth, and chorizo. Bring the liquid to a boil and then stir in the rice and saffron. Add the browned chicken pieces. The rice should be completely covered with liquid. Cook the paella without stirring for 20 minutes. When the liquid has all been absorbed, pour the peas over the top of the pot, turn off the heat and cover the pot with a kitchen towel. Let stand 5 minutes and then serve with lemon wedges.

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Braised Chicken

My favorite is Zesty Braised Chicken with Lemon and Capers. It is super easy and taste great.

The recipe can be found here at Food & Wine. http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/zesty-braised-chicken-with-lemon-and-capers

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So good that I eat it from the container ...

When I was a broke college student sometimes I would eat green peas right out of the can for dinner.

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Great Gelato. Not Ice Cream. In the U.S. Where? Whose?

I had pretty good gelato at the Espresso & Gelato Bar in the National Gallery of Art (East Building) in Washington, DC. They offer 16 flavors of gelato and a full espresso bar.

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

Margarita Lime Pie or Strawberry Shortcake or Devil's Food Cake or Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake or German Chocolate Cheesecake or Pumpkin Pie or Lemon Meringue Pie or ....................help me!

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

Pears poached in marsala, cinnamon and vanilla bean.

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

butterscotch pudding with caramel sauce anda sprinkle of fleur de sel (from Mozza)

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

I love MOST desserts, unfortunately! :) My all time favorite I guess would be chocolate cake.

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

I love a really good piece of cake. Or creme brulee

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

BAKLAVA with pistachios and rose water atar syrup!!! YUMMY!!

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

pick 1?? to hard to do. anything chocolate. cheesecake truffle.....you get the point :)

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

Pumpkin Cheesecake without a doubt!

I blogged your contest to Prize-A-Tron!
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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

I can't decide between flourless chocolate cake and key lime pie.

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

Great - why don't you just ask me which is my favorite child?!! That would be just as impossible to answer. OK, but you don't really know me, so you won't know if I tell the truth or not...... hmmm - so then why can't I just type SOMETHING? Why am I still sitting here thinking? OK - my favorite dessert is Banquet banana cream pie - not necessarily unfrozen.

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Cook the Book: The Sweet Melissa Baking Book

That's a really unfair question because who can pick just one? If I could only have one favorite, it would have to be . . . hmmm . . . . chocolate cream pie.

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