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Oktoberfest Obatzda (Bavarian cheese spread)

Summer blueberry cake (and a blogiversary giveaway)

Mom’s (even better) barbecue chicken

Kitchen hack: Cleaning the kettle

Chicken and veggie lettuce cups

Irish soda bread (classic and cranberry-orange)

Fried won tons with sweet-sour sauce

Tuscan wild boar sauce (no boar required)

My favorite easy fish preparation is also a perfect January recipe. It ticks all the new years resolution boxes: Cook at home! Be healthier! Eat more fish! Lose weight! My husband swears he always loses weight after we have fish for dinner, even if he’s stuffed after the meal. We all know fish is great…

One recipe, two ideas here: First, that you can use ground turkey in a stir fry. Second, that when you have older, thicker green beans, you can transform them by cutting steep diagonal slices that will absorb a fantastic amount of flavor. My mom has made green beans like this for years, so it always…

One of the best meals to be had in New York City – and very often my first destination off the plane – is a $5 tray of steaming hot dumplings in Chinatown. Xiao long bao – pronunciation shao (rhymes with now) lohng (long O like tone) bow (as in take a bow) – aren’t…

Paris

Pavlova

Oktoberfest Obatzda (Bavarian cheese spread)

Honey (or maple) fried ham

Zucchini carbonara

Summer blueberry cake (and a blogiversary giveaway)

Jalapeño greek yogurt dip

Hula pie

Sweet vinegar slaw

Mom’s (even better) barbecue chicken

Labneh party spread

Kitchen hack: Cleaning the kettle

Soy sauce poached fish

Magic mushrooms

Chicken and veggie lettuce cups

Discovery Saturday

Irish soda bread (classic and cranberry-orange)

Sparking joy

Fried won tons with sweet-sour sauce

Tuscan wild boar sauce (no boar required)

Super duper veggie burger

Fresh citrus sangria

When you get there

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