Sweet Home Allegra

My Mister makes these up a dozen at a time and we rewarm them for dinner for days. Peel a couple of butternut squash and slice the necks...

If you are working at mastering the fine art of Mac and Cheese, I trust you have already visited my posts on the Ten Commandments of...

I learned this at Rick Baliss's flagship restaurant Topolobompo in Chicago. This is an outrageous dessert cocktail!! Glass is rimmed with...

Simple (3 ingredients), sublime, and here is how: 2 parts fresh squeezed lime juice 2 parts excellent Tequila 1 part Cointreau or Triple...

Tender pockets of cabbage leaves stuffed with yum and slow cooked in home canned summer tomatoes. Oooo la la! My Mister grew up in a...

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

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

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

This savory, baked veggie pie is a gluten free, less cheesy option to quiche. We served it for years at the inn and it was hugely...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A favorite of mine with sushi, charcuterie or tucked into a hummus sandwich, these thinly sliced sweet and sour rounds have a slight heat...

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

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