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Sweet Home Allegra

❤️Food is LOVE❤️ Eat UP!!

Favorite recipes for creating and preserving vibrant food. Views to my sweet life too. 

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Black Bean Burgers with Japanese Mayo

These are the ultimate vegetarian burger without resorting to salty fake meat or mealy overly bread-crumbed patties! These are packed...

Sweet Potato and Sage Bread

This recipe is adapted from an online recipe with no origin that I can credit (or blame 😂). It is very easy to make. The bread requires...

Pickled Cranberries

Without a doubt, pickling is my favorite way to use November's seasonal cranberries. These little red pearls of pure spicy yum have...

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Tuna Noodle Casserole is classic childhood comfort food. This is true even when I choose to forget that in my huge family of the...

Sage: Harvesting and Freezing

I make my Vegetarian Soup Stock from October through to summer food (June), so big sprigs of fresh sage are always just plain necessary....

Creamy Fusilli with Shallots and Mushrooms

This recipe started with the Autumn Equinox. The change of season brought with it a craving for mushrooms, creaminess, pasta, garden...

Pear Custard Pie

Elegant, beautiful, delicious! And sooooo easy!!! The custard whirrs up in the blender and the entire confection comes together quickly...

Oven “Sun Dried” Tomatoes

SO much more roll your eyes back delicious than any store-bought sun dried tomato that you have EVER tasted!! Why? Farm fresh tomatoes,...

Peach Salsa

My Lake Michigan resort town, before it was a tourist vacation destination, was a lumber and fruit center, shipping to ports everywhere...

White Bean, Spinach and Tomato Bake

This is adapted from a Pinterest recipe, with the amount of cheese reduced, the tomato and spinach quantity increased and the white beans...

Alfredo Kale and Shallot Pizza

Ripped from NYT Cooking, which hides behind a paywall so will not pin to Pinterest for ease of reference, therefore I am posting here....

Dark Chocolate Raspberry Oatmeal Banana Bread

These are sublime. Of all the many treats we baked at the inn over our 3 decades, this was the hands down #1 favorite, a healthy snack...

Sweet and Sour Pickled Red Onions

Perfect for adding tang to hummus wraps, salads, charcuterie, grilled sandwiches and just snacking fingers to mouth ooo la la straight...

Elaine’s Hummus

Tried and true after decades of preparing in my inn's kitchen, stick with this recipe and you will never buy hummus pre-made again. Just...

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