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Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites
I’d write something eloquent about this, but doesn’t the recipe title tell you everything? My friend Corinne of spare cake made these for me a few years ago, and my guess is that she didn’t make the recipe up. It’s not even much of a recipe — just an amazing technique that you need…
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Chicken Fried Steak with White Pepper Gravy
My mother made cube steak sometimes when we were kids, but wasn’t one for sauces, so I wasn’t introduced to white pepper gravy until I began ordering it at diners. I liked nothing better than going to a greasy spoon diner after a night out with friends if we’d been imbibing, or as a recovery…
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Cider Pot Roast
While I know there are people out there who dream of steak dinners, prime rib, or some other fancy cut of cow, my all-time favorite beef dinner is a good pot roast. I’ve been wanting to post a pot roast dinner to the blog for years now, but I hadn’t figured out how to get…
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Atomic Fireball Liqueur
Atomic Fireball Liqueur Remember when we were little kids and you could get Atomic Fireball individual candies for a penny or five cents depending on the era and rate of inflation? I wonder how much they are these days. In any case, I was trying to make a spiced cranberry liqueur when I came…
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Fancy Little Birds (Oven-Roasted Herbed Cornish Game Hens)
I’m not a big holiday celebration person, but I do like cooking special food for special occasions. Christmas, growing up, was always a special meal, but it wasn’t one specific thing. For years, Christmas Eve was Welsh Rarebit (something like this recipe — completely not allergy-friendly beer cheese sauce over toast), and then it was…
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DIY Creme de Cacao Liqueur
So the 15 food allergy thing, two of which are wheat and corn, ends up cutting out a whole lot of alcoholic beverages out of my diet. It’s looking like I may have another possible allergy (or three) on the horizon that may make my safe vodka no longer safe, so I was poking around…
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Delicious Failure Ice Cream Cake
Cake. I adore cake. Cake is the whole point of birthdays, right? But allergies, man, they make cake harder. Gluten, dairy, eggs — all of these have structural properties in baking, and while it’s very possible to make cake without these things, when you take them all out, there are a lot of adjustments. If…
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Roast Goose
Roast Goose Why Roast Goose? I’m sure some of you are asking that question. Well, I’m allergic to chicken and I reacted to turkey when I challenged it. However, I don’t appear to react to duck and I like it. After further research it turns out that chicken and turkey are both in the Phasianidae family,…
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