Cilantro Pesto
I LOVE cilantro! I was blessed to not have the “Cilantro tastes like soap!” gene, and I feel so bad for those that do. They won’t get the enjoyment from this recipe that the rest of us can! 3 cups...
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Pepper Jelly
I cannot tell you how amazing this jelly is, you’ll really have to try it for yourself. It’s the perfect balance of flavors – sweet, heat, and just the complex pepper taste in general… without being...
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Honey Dill Dipping Sauce Recipe
Honey dill sauce is one of those things that I think of as being ubiquitous… and then end up disappointed when it’s not. When you grow up with something THAT popular, it’s weird when you move...
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Orange-Ginger Cranberry Sauce Recipe
So I was reading a story last week, about how BPA – a toxin – was found in cans of cranberry sauce. My first reaction was “Whatever!”, seeing as how I learned the joy of homemade cranberry sauce YEARS...
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Roasted Radish Salad with Maple Dijon Vinagrette
Another weekend, another few steps towards a normal house/life! I’ll get more into what post tornado progress we made, after the recipe… but one thing we did this weekend was clear everything out from...
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Honey Garlic Cooking Sauce Recipe
While I can usually reproduce a dish off taste alone – intuitively – sometimes it’s fun to have to reverse engineer something. A good example of this was my homemade wine slush mix. For that, I took...
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How to Make Compound Butters – Easy & Versatile!
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking/working on my upcoming corn cookbook. It still feels weird to be on contract with a publisher (or, as I call it.. “Minnesota Historical Society Press owns my...
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Cilantro-Mint Chutney Recipe
As you may have heard, my friend Stephanie left The Glass House yesterday. What a crazy day… and the end of two LONG months of work for a few of us. The running jokes all centered around feelings of...
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Hoppy IPA Pickles Recipe
Those vines that are threatening to take over / decorating our upstairs mini deck? Those are first year hops, doing *way* better than we ever thought they would. You see, we haven’t had the best luck...
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Ginger Wasabi Dip
I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but I recently served sour cream / onion soup mix dip to a friend that I hadn’t seen in almost a year. This ran completely contrary to the rep I’ve earned of...
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Homemade Dill Pickles
Here we go – the start of “Pickle Week”! I’m fairly new to pickling, so I had to spend a bit of time researching things like techniques, brine ingredient ratios, etc. Usually I’m really “freestyle” in...
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Homemade Pickled Beets
Growing up, it seemed like there was always a supply of canned goods in the basement. I can’t remember my mother actually DOING the canning, maybe my grandmother did them… who knows? Anyway, I...
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Homemade Carrot Pickles, Two Ways
Day 3 of Pickle Week! So far, we’ve looked at Dill Pickles and Pickled Beets, how about some Pickled Carrots? These and beets are pretty much the only exceptions to my intense aversion to sweet...
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Mixed Vegetable Pickles
Every fall, my husband and I take our big roadtrip to Chicago, for our favorite annual convention. It’s something we very much look forward to every year – a great event, loads of friends, and an...
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“Caulcannon” Pickles (Mixed Root Vegetable Pickles)
When I first became obsessed with pickling, one idea came to mind before all others – CAULCANNON PICKLES. (!!!!) As I mentioned in my earlier Caulcannon recipe post, we make the East Coast Canadian...
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Hoppy Dill Pickle Relish
After seeing how nuts my husband went for the Hoppy IPA Pickles I created for him, I decided that I should make a hopped up version of a pickle relish. We love (non-sweet!) dill pickle relish, this...
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Hot Red Pepper Jelly
A few years ago, I posted my recipe for Pepper jelly, which has been a favorite in our house for a very long time. It works up quickly and easily, and provides a lot of flavor – super addictive...
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Hot Cheeseburger Dip
I want to preface this with a warning that this is not high cuisine. What a way to start out a recipe, eh? Here’s the thing: As I was sauteeing the onions and ground beef, it smelled exactly like...
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Pasta alla Porters
“Gourmet” cooking with a lot of effort can be fun and rewarding at times, but sometimes… you just want a really quick, fairly effortless pasta sauce. This is our go-to pasta sauce for those days – it...
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Fromage Fort, or “How to Make Garlic Cheese Bread like a BALLER”
Recently, I woke up from dreaming about Fromage Fort. Literally, I woke up to making a mental list of the bits of cheese that we had in the fridge, if we had any appropriate wine already open, etc. To...
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