Category: Recipes
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Caramel Stuffed Banana Nut Muffins
What’s better than a banana nut muffin? A banana nut muffin stuffed with caramel. Of course. This recipe is based on the great Alton Brown’s banana bread recipe, which I’ve tweaked to make these decadent muffins. If you’re looking for a healthy breakfast recipe, this ain’t it. Check out my whole grain low-fat banana bread…
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Cabernet Jelly
Have you ever had wine jelly? It’s divine. And couldn’t be easier to make. In fact, the hardest part of this recipe is sterilizing the jars and lids, which is easy. You should do that first, because the jelly comes together VERY quickly once you start. This recipe makes about 4 pints of jelly, or…
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Beurre Blanc (white wine butter sauce)
Beurre blanc is a classic French sauce made with butter, white wine, and shallots. I recently made this sauce at a cooking demonstration to prove how important it is to cook with quality wine, and I promised I’d post the recipe. It’s a very simple sauce to make, and it goes fabulously with fish and…
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Coq au Vin
This is one of my favorite dishes on earth. “Cock in Wine” is the translation…a mean, tough, stringy old rooster slowly braised in red wine. It has become a French classic, but it arose from humble farmhouses, rather than sophisticated bistros. I grew up eating dry, tough old roosters. And any time a rooster attacked…
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Bourbon Fig Jam
You fall into one of two categories of humans. The first: someone who has to pay an outrageous amount of money to purchase figs at the grocery store when they’re in season…sometimes up to a dollar a fig. If you’re not that person, you fall into the other category. Either you or a neighbor has…
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3-minute Microwave Oatmeal Cinnamon Breakfast Cake
I make breakfast almost every single day. During the week, when it’s nothing special, I usually make biscuits or pancakes. Biscuits take about 15 minutes, start to finish, pancakes take a little less. That’s not a lot of time, to be honest. Way less than most people might think. But even 15 minutes is too…
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Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins
I have loved blueberries since I was an infant. My mom has pictures of me with a permanent purple stain down my chin, chest, and into my belly button. My infant tongue wasn’t yet refined enough to sound out the name of this little blue miracle correctly…all I could manage was “bloo blellies.” (Which is…
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Homemade Garlic Naan Bread
Everyone loves flatbreads, from pitas to naan to foccacia, to the spongy fermented teff bread of Ethiopia: injera. Naan is the staple flatbread in India, and there are as many ways to make it as there are cooks. Naan is quick and easy to make, and for you guys who limit yourselves to the grill…
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Spicy Pickled Asparagus
I planted my asparagus patch in my garden about 4 years ago, and it has always been productive, but this year…I guess with the mild winter…it has been rabid. I’m pulling about a pound a day out of the garden, harvesting twice a day, and have been for more than a month! If you’ve never…
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Venison Meatballs
Venison is one of my favorite meats. The last meal I cooked before leaving to film MasterChef was venison tenderloin. (Ironically, the dish that sent me home in 5th place from MasterChef was venison tenderloin…I was trying to cook it the way Ramsay cooks it, rather than my own special way.) Venison is the most…