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Spicy Corn Bread Cheese Toast

Believe me, I tried to think of a more original name for this invention of mine but somehow every catchy name that I could think of didn’t reflect the explosion of taste and texture in this simple combination of flavors.  So I had to resort to a simple name that simply stated all the components in it.  Yes, it...
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Lettuce Chicken Wraps

I am not a big fan of chain restaurants but every now and then I used to indulge myself in the vice of visiting Cheesecake Factory – I loved their Lettuce Wraps and their Pineapple Upside-down cheesecake!  The wraps “looked” light and tasted great, so I used them to justify eating the cheesecake.   But then I realized that I...
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Spicy, Creamy and Minty Mashed Peas

I have a daughter who attends college 650 miles away from home.  She loves her school and it is the perfect place for her. The only drawback is that the school is in a small college town in the Midwest and the food choices there are quite limited. Since she is so far away from home, she misses home...
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Onion Flavored Roast Chicken

I love onions is any form – raw, fried, roasted or grilled.  My favorite are caramelized onions because through the process of caramelization, they get a depth of flavor that is not possible through any of the other cooking methods.  Since chicken by itself is quite bland, I thought up this recipe to use this enhanced onion flavor to...
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Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Bites

I was in NYC last week to interview the celebrity chef Jehangir Mehta (runner up in the Food Network Iron Chef competition a couple of years ago) for the website www.talkingcranes.com . So as part of the interview “research” I ate a yummy dinner at Mehta’s restaurant Mehtaphor (highly recommend it!) and my favorite of all that I tasted...
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