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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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Harvesting Pomegranate Seeds

Tis the season! Sprinkle festive, cherry red pomegranate seeds on salads all through the winter season! They are tasty in yogurt, crunchy...

Won Ton Lasagna

Easy to make, cooks up quickly, whisper light and pretty enough for company! We have made this for decades and always called it “lazy...

Roasted Butternut Squash Frittata

This casserole is the nexus of my lifelong passion for Mac and Cheese, love for roasted vegetables, mission for breakfast (even if it’s...

Caramelized Onions

Caramelized Onions are sweet and savory Nirvana made from nothing but plump yellow sugary onions, a chef’s tears and time at the stove....

Classic Mac and Cheese

Mac and Cheese is the ultimate comfort food that lends itself to many exotic, delightful variations. I‘ll also share some other M&C...

The Waffle of Insane Greatness

Simply the best waffle recipe EVER. Every B&B Innkeeper I ever knew used this recipe. This recipe originated from Aretha Frankenstein's...

Split Pea Soup

Simple, healthy, delicious. Of course the base should be a perfect veggie soup stock. Then a simple mirepoix. The Recipe: 8 cups...

Mirepoix: The Soup Starter

The French flavor base called mirepoix is a combination of onion, carrot and celery generally cut to the same size. It's used in a ratio...

4-Ingredient Creamy Carrot Soup

Vegan too, because this soup gets its creaminess from Arborio rice (risotto)! The flavor trick is homemade veggie soup stock and sweet...

Roasted Acorn Squash Soup

Creamy, spicy and finished off with the squash’s own roasted salted seeds, this soup is for when you are really craving complex autumn...

Roasted Peppered Salmon

Roast salmon correctly and then enjoy it at home for a lifetime!! We have never been to a restaurant that cooks salmon as well as we can...

Classic Cornbread

Crumbly, buttery and savory sweet, and so easy to whip up it’s almost embarrassing. Everyone loves cornbread! Yes, you can change it up...

Classic Shortbread

Ahhhh, the sublime, basic butter cookie at its simplest. Store-bought never tastes like what you make at home. My Mister requests these...

Perfect Everyday Quiche

Quiche is Mac and Cheese for grownups. Besides being beautiful comfort food, so very satisfying and delicious, quiche delivers all the...

Sweet and Sour Pickled Apples

These are 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌AMAZING 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌!!!!! Gala apple slices marinated in a sweet brine spiced with shallot, jalapeño, cinnamon,...

Vegetarian (or not) Pot Pie

Sure, you can add chicken pieces if you want. Or fake tofu or seitan chicken, if you must. But this already tastes as perfect as the...

Blueberry Breakfast Cake

This is timeless, delicious, and easy. What makes "Allegra Breakfast Cake" or "ABC Cake" as my dear Ellie calls it, effortless and always...

Cranberry Coriander and Mint Chutney

Another fall classic for holiday feasting! Canning up a few jelly jars also saves this luscious condiment for summer sandwiches and all...

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