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Cheddar Cheese Puffs

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The French call these cheese puffs Gougeres and I was introduced to them by a French neighbor of mine, who once served them at our book-club meeting.  I got this recipe from her years ago and since then have frequently served these as appetizers for a dinner party.

Ingredients:

1.    One cup of unbleached all-purpose flour 2.    One teaspoon of...
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Baba Ghanoush

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While traveling in Egypt with my family, I fell in love with the cold vegetarian mezze dishes that we were served in every part of the country.  Every restaurant that we ate in had freshly baked pita bread that they served with various kinds of tart pickled vegetables and thick vegetarian dips like Baba Ghanoush and Hummus.  Even though...
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Polenta Casserole

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This is a recipe devised by my college-going daughter.  She prefers to eat vegetarian and found that there were very few vegetarian choices in the college’s cafeteria.  Also, they tended to repeat the same old same stuff every day and she longed for something different. So she threw in a few ingredients she had in her pantry and refrigerator...
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Latino Grocery Stores

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Most regular supermarkets have an aisle of Latino supplies and I get most of my ingredients from there but every now and then I go to the Latino specialty store to buy fresh chorizo sausage, Andouille sausage or queso fresco.  You can also find a wide variety of rice and vegetables that one can’t always find in the conventional...
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