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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Roast chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes and peas.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta with sauteed garlic and seasonal vegetables
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
The pumpkin pie recipe from the bottom of the Christmas Club pie plate.
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Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
kalamatas for me too.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Roast chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes and peas.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta with sauteed garlic and seasonal vegetables
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
The pumpkin pie recipe from the bottom of the Christmas Club pie plate.
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
Pear-cranberry pie my daughter made.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was Better Homes & Gardens. In spite of an entire bookcase of volumes which came later, there are times I still reach for it thirty years later.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Pasta topped with whatever fresh vegetable there is, sauted in olive oil with garlic and red pepper flakes, topped with parmesan, romano, or grana padana (depending on which the fridge yields).
Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'
Corn on the cob, and just-picked dead-ripe tomatoes.
Served: Your Waitress Gets Reprimanded
@cg_ups, we weren't allowed to drink on-site even if we changed. The owner felt very strongly that it was inappropriate.
Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'
Authentic chinese, japanese and korean.
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
I current put up pickles, salsa, chili sauce, jams and butters. I'd like to try meats and fish.
Cook the Book: 'Bottega Favorita' by Frank Stitt
Fettuccini topped with broccoli or cauliflower sauted in olive oil with fresh garlic and red pepper flakes, a squeeze of fresh lemon, a little zest, and parmesan or grana padana on top.
Cook the Book: 'Serious Barbecue' by Adam Perry Lang
The first time I grilled swordfish. I used the 10 minutes per inch rule, and an oregano/dijon/oo mop from More Taste Than Time. It was amazing. It bore no resemblance to any swordfish I or anyone in my family had ever tasted.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Making soft-shell tacos when the girls were young. Everyone made their own, piling a little of everything on, and the trick was to keep the taco, or pieces therefrom, from landing on your plate, instead of in your mouth.
Cook the Book: 'Real Cajun'
My grandmother's "casserole", and my grandfather steaming clams, then teaching me to eat them. I don't think my nose even reached the countertop.
Cook the Book: 'The Asian Grill'
On a charcoal grill near the beach, there were some really nice brats just coloring up nicely. If you grill near the beach, DON'T turn your back... even to run inside and grab a beer. I was just in time to see the last brat fly off with a seagull. They grabbed them right off the grill.
Dinner Tonight: West Indian Rice and Beans
Brown rice should work fine as long as you increase the liquid by 1/4 to 1/2 cup, and increase the original cooking time by say 20 minutes.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Linguini with cauliflower, garlic and red pepper.
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Italian - because the recipe I have always works.
Cook the Book: 'On the Line'
Shrimp steamed in salted beer, then seasoned with cayenne.
Bacon grease
Refried beans! It makes the absolute best refries ever.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
The chocolate mousse my mother used to make
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
A big bowl of steaming hot noodle soup!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
chicken and biscuits!!!!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Old fashioned turkey dinner does it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I love my Mom's boiled chicken and a big bowl of soup she makes with the stock!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I actually don't love olives: I like tapenades and things, but am not a huge fan of eating olives by themselves.
...but I sure do love olive oil :)
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Yum! Warm mixed olives with fennel, orange zest and Anaheim chile. My favorite olive is the gaeta.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Kielke and farmer sausage with "gravy" (aka cream sauce with onions). Oh thank goodness for Mennonite roots. If only I worked like a farmer to work it off.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
My olive of the moment is garlic-stuffed green. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I love Ziti and galic bread! Delicious!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Mom's Thanksgiving feast!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I have never meet an olive I didn't love. Since I am just back from Madrid, I will say arbequina olives with a nice red wine at an outdoor tapas bar.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Not really a huge fan of olives but olive oil is a wonderful thing.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Roast chicken with mashed potatoes!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I still remember the first time I had a kalamata olive. I was 13 years old, and my family had decided to picnic with some friends along a river. One person had brought along a bunch of kalamatas and was raving about them. I was eager to try one, but when I did, I thought they were awful. But after eating them at random intervals over the years, I've grown to love them; they're now my favorite :)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I love pot roast with roasted potatoes, onions, and carrots. YUM!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
been craving saltiness lately and it's been satiated with the kalamata olives. :)
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
the little spanish arbequina olives, hands down.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spaghetti and meatballs always goes over well here.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My family would be happy if I'd make them chicken and dumplings at least once a week. (And it's so easy!)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My family did roast chicken dinners every Sunday when I was growing up. Can't beat grandma's cooking!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love olives! My favorite depends on my mood - sometimes cerignola, sometimes arbequina, sometimes picholines, sometimes nicoise, sometimes picual, sometimes manzanilla - give them all to me.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Spaghetti with meatballs and chunks of Italian sausage in a smooth garlicky red sauce, caesar salad with homemade garlic croutons, warm crusty Italian bread with butter, a nice barolo, and lemon cheesecake for dessert.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Oh, I love olives so very much. It's a toss-up between a buttery cerignola or the always delicious kalamatas...
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kalamatas for me too.