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Archive for March, 2007

Cheese Fondue

This is a great recipe for cheddar cheese fondue, but it’s also a great basic creamy cheese sauce that can be repurposed for lots of things – adding in veggies, pasta topping, etc.
Ingredients:
3 tbsp butter3 tbsp flour1/2 tsp salt1/2 tsp cracked pepper2 cups milk2 cups shredded cheddar
Melt butter, stir in flour, salt, and [...]

Spicy Beans and Rice

My ultimate winter comfort food is spicy black beans and rice. Sometimes I soak beans overnight and spice them myself, sometimes in a pinch I use a box of spicy beans and rice, but it’s always good. Tiny cubes of cheese and a dollop of sour cream round everything off.

Lemon Bread

Lemon Poppyseed bread and muffins are my favorite of the quick bread flavors. To make these easy recipes, take whatever is your favorite quick bread base and add 1/4 cup lemon juice, the zest of two grated lemons, and 1/4 cup of poppyseeds.

Morning Glory Cake

At least, they are supposed to be morning glories. I am not known for having a green thumb, so they could be some other flower and I wouldn’t know the difference. In my mind, the cake tastes great and that’s what matters. I used applesauce instead of oil.

Best Macaroni and Cheese

Everyone always needs an excellent homemade mac and cheese recipe, it’s just that kind of comfort food. This one is my favorite. Originally passed to me by a friend, I stared in abject horror at the ingredient list when I saw that it containted Velveeta. I was sure that I would never [...]