Monthly Archives: February 2011

Beef Mushroom Soup

  This Beef Mushroom Soup is great the day that you make it but it will be even better the next day. I used a more expensive cut of beef and it made all of the difference in the flavor.  I used beef chuck boneless country style ribs that I got at my Safeway store. …

Banana Walnut Cookies

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  If you love bananas this will be your new favorite cookie! I already had 2 different kinds of cookies that I was going to make last weekend then I realized I had some bananas that needed using up. I looked through my recipes for inspiration and in the end decided to slightly modify a…

Meyer Lemon Mousse

  It’s Meyer Lemon season so I feel obliged to share another one of my yummy lemon recipes with you! This mousse really does taste like a combination of the filling and the meringue of a great lemon meringue pie! It is very creamy and not as heavy as the filling of a lemon meringue…

Chicken Cacciatore

  I hadn’t made this recipe in years and then when I thought about it, I couldn’t find my original recipe!  I remembered the ingredients though, so I was able to recreate it and it tastes perfect. It is a super healthy entree to serve because it is full of vegetables and chicken.  My Mom…

Chocolate Cut-Out Cookies, Part Two

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  This is my second post about the results of my recent chocolate cookie testing. This second cookie recipe is another that I made years ago before going gluten free.  The recipe is pretty close to the first recipe, the Chocolate Sweet Hearts – it has the same ratio of cocoa to GF flour mix.  These…

Chocolate Cut-Out Cookies, Part One

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  Last week I tested 3 different recipes for gluten free chocolate cookies that you cut out with cookie cutters.  I temporarily eliminated one of the recipes as soon as I tasted the batter- it just wasn’t worth the calories! That recipe was one that I had made years ago and thought it was good…