Tomato and Spinach Lasagna

If you’re ever looking for my Achilles heal, you really don’t have to look to far.   I am totally enamored with the wonder of cheese.   All you have to do is make me something that involves the gooey melty amazing quality of cheese and you have won a friend for life!   It’s no wonder when the [...]

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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars with a Toffee Cookie Crust

I’ve been in a cheesecake kind of mood the last few months and I’ve been experimenting with different pans as well as flavors.   It’s been fun and the results have been delicious. But when you bake an extra creamy cheesecake using cream cheese and mascarpone, you can’t expect anything short of perfection. I decided on [...]

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Strawberry Lemonade Shortbread Bars with the Law Student’s Wife

For everything there is a beginning and for everything there is an end.  Today marks the last post  in my Guest Post Friday series.   It was great while it lasted and during that time I shared many of my friends with you.  You made new friends and discovered new blogs to enjoy, and you [...]

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Grilled Alaskan Rockfish

I’ve never been to Alaska, but it is on my to do list of places to visit after I retire.  Of course I won’t be visiting in the winter, but the summer in Alaska sounds amazing! If you’re wondering why I brought up Alaska, well last week I came across a new new variety of [...]

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Blood Orange Pecan Muffins

With this years supply of Blood Orange’s coming to a end, I’ve been getting my fill of those juicy delectable oranges.    My first contact with those ruby red fleshed beauties came on my first trip to Rome when the hotel we stayed at served a red orange juice that I mistakenly took for grapefruit [...]

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Chicken Florentine – Deconstructed

As I set up my mis en place for dinner, I began to envision the dish I was about to make and how I would assemble it.    I knew I wanted potatoes and I wanted them sliced and crisp, sautéed with garlic.  I had baby spinach in abundance so that had to be worked [...]

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