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A collection of the latest recipes I have found.

Sourdough focaccia

Sourdough focaccia

Fresh focaccia is so good and much less fussy than baking sourdough bread. I really like the salty and olive oil taste and adding rosemary and olives can ma...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Found this recipe on food52 as a quick meringue custard pie recipe using sweetened condensed milk. The pie filling can be lemon juice and lemon zest or subs...

Bacon

Bacon

I liked watching the youtube video below from food52 on bacon. I used to mostly fry bacon in skillet or cast iron. Sometimes I would bake on a wire rack. ...

Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

I have been making chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich from an Americas Test Kitchen recipe. The cookies recipe is modified from the normal recipe addi...

Porch tomatoes

Porch tomatoes

For several years I have been growing grape tomatoes on our porch and getting good results. A few years ago I counted and got about 1900 tomatoes for the wh...

Anzac Cookies

Anzac Cookies

Anzac stands for the Australia / New Zealand Army Corps. During World War I these cookies were created to send to troops. The cookies are meant to last lon...

Quiche

Quiche

We have been making the quiche crust ahead of time and freezing the dough. To bake the quiche can just pour the filling into the frozen crust and put in ove...

Sourdough Bread

Sourdough Bread

I really like this youtube video from Food52 with Sarah Owens on a great sourdough bread recipe. The video goes into a lot of details on how to prepare and ...

Persian Rice (Tahdig)

Persian Rice (Tahdig)

I have been reading Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and really liked her Netflix show with the same name. Also I have been watching lots of Food52 yout...