Last Minute Christmas Shopping and My New Camera Bag

I am so excited! I just received, in the mail, my new *emera camera tote. I ordered it last Thursday and it was shipped the same day. I can’t believe how quickly Nathiya was able to process the orders. She must be superhuman.I would post a picture of the bag and how I plan on arranging my “equipment”...

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Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Nut Cookies

I’ve been using the same recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies since the 90s. This recipe is found on the canister of Quaker oatmeal. It is my mom’s favorite cookie. I remember making it one year and sticking a clean penny in one of the cookies. The idea was the lucky winner would win a prize. The...

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Red Chile Pork Tamales

The bf starts to talk about his grandma’s tamales during this time of year. He is not going to visit his grandparents this Christmas so I decided to make some tamales for him. This is not his grandmother’s recipe. I told him to get her recipe while he was in Illinois last year. He ate the tamales...

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Cream Puffs (Pate a Choux and Creme Patisserie)

The first time I worked with choux pastry was at Johnson & Wales. I wasn’t a pastry major but part of the entire culinary arts program included a rudimentary pastry class. I remember hating the piping part so now I take a shortcut and use the scoop and drop method. This method works really well...

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Cranberry Chicken

It was very cold and snowy yesterday so I decided to channel 1950s-era cooking and try out a recipe I found on the Kraft website. This type of cooking is often referred to as “dump cooking” and the recipes as “dump recipes.” These recipes are easy and require almost no measuring. They are perfect...

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Roasted Lemongrass Chicken

Growing up, we always hosted Thanksgiving dinner for 50 to 100 people over the course of an entire day. We had turkey for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snack. Earlier in the day, we usually cooked the turkey Asian style and serve the slices of turkey in lettuce wraps with vermicelli noodles,...

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Raw Cranberry Relish

I used to cook my cranberry sauce on the stove top but last year I decided to make a raw version. I found that I preferred the raw version over the cooked. This year I made the relish the night before Thanksgiving and kept it refrigerated until dinner.The pictures are not from Thanksgiving. I forgot...

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Baked Sweet Potato Fries

I bought a case of sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. I only needed five pounds of it so I spent the week before Thanksgiving eating baked sweet potatoes for dessert. I think the case were of the beauregard or the garnet variety. I typically do not like this type because most of the time they are cooked...

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