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Chicken Marsala from Dan Pelosi's book "Let's Eat"
Dan!!! You are becoming my best friend!! Hubby said that I "nailed" the cooking this week; first with your pot roast and now with this chicken dish. I just finished the last of it today, sadly. I followed the recipe to the best of my abilities, taking a few notes along the way. First, I was not able to find Marsala wine at my grocery store and a person working the wine aisle had no idea what I was looking for even after I pulled up "marsala wine" online. I even checked the ba
Stacey Thomas
Apr 92 min read


Ube Champarado (Ube Rice Porridge) from Ian at iankewks.com
Months and months ago (maybe even a year ago), while in Hawaii, I picked up some quick-cook chocolate champarado and some ube champarado from a grocery store that comes in its own carton and you add water, let it rest and then eat it. My husband did not like the chocolate one because it was too sweet but he loved the one made from ube. I figured that once we returned to the mainland, I can easily find it but I hadn't been able to do so. So, each time we have been back in H
Stacey Thomas
Apr 92 min read
Baking Adventures Through Uncertainty A Professional Baker's Culinary Journal
I am a healthcare person who has "dabbled" in cooking to feed my four kids and husband through the years and has collected, donated, purchased more and more cookbooks than one can ever need, through the years. Now that the kids are leaving the house, we are packing up and moving into a smaller house and I need to decide what stays and what goes. When most of us were laid off from our professions during the start of the pandemic, I thought that I could finally clean my house
Stacey Thomas
Apr 22 min read
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