Recipes by The Crispy Cook (Page 2)

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	Sharing our Family Recipe for Grandma Nellie's Chicken by The Crispy Cook When I married my husband Dan, I not only joined a warm and loving family, but I became privy to the heritage that he and his relatives shared. I got earfuls of family lore and albums of photographs of long dead ancestors posing with their town baseball teams, classmates and in one case, a taxidermied ostrich! (that was some strange…	1 vote 484 views
	A Roundup of Reviews of some New Gluten-Free Books by The Crispy Cook The Crispy Cook mailbox has recently been stuffed with a spate of gluten-free books to review. The variety of the books I've been sent by various publishers shows how sophisticated and popular the gluten-free book-buying public has become. We've come a long way since 2007, when my husband and I were whacked over the head with the…	1 vote 295 views
	Dipping my Culinary Toe into Persian Waters with Funny in Farsi by The Crispy Cook Firoozeh Dumas’ first memoir, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (NY: Random House, 2003), is a collection of lighthearted essays that illuminates her childhood experiences growing up as an Iranian transplant in Southern…	1 vote 206 views
	Garden Lites Veggie Muffins Review by The Crispy Cook Dan and I recently received a complimentary sampler of five flavors of Veggie Muffins from the Garden Lites company based in Queens, New York. These muffins are not only gluten-free, but each muffin also contains 20% of one's daily recommended fiber requirement, so that was a big plus.The muffins come frozen, so to heat them up we…	1 vote 282 views
	Chicken Riggies: An Upstate New York Specialty by The Crispy Cook	1 vote 274 views
	Chicken Riggies: An Upstate New York Specialty by The Crispy Cook	1 vote 301 views
	Of Possums, Oysters and Mark Twain by The Crispy Cook My Cook the Books Cohost Simona (the cheese-, pasta- and bread-making force behind Briciole) picked a wonderful title for our online foodie book club to savor: Andrew Beahrs' Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens. The book examines some regional foods that Twain pined for, both in terms…	1 vote 501 views
	Broccoli Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes, A GF Product Review and Giveaway by The Crispy Cook Through this relentlessly cold and snowy (and recently icy) winter season, I have been diligently trying to empty my chest freezer of several seasons' worth of chopped, pureed and oven-roasted garden tomatoes. I have been so diligent that I have in…	1 vote 285 views
	Old-Fashioned Date-Nut Bread Made Gluten-Free and Giveaway Reminder by The Crispy Cook During the course of my holiday food shopping, I picked up a package of dates and meant to use them in something for the Christmas feast, but just didn't get to it. They've been stashed away in my kitchen cupboards since but after skimming a charming…	1 vote 248 views
	A Review of Gluten-Free It! Candies by The Crispy Cook A Review of Gluten-Free It! CandiesAfter making candies for her friends and family over the last three decades, candymaker Karen Masi started her own mail order candy business two years ago. She makes It!, a delicious, crunchy indulgence at her Bristol, Connecticut shop and offers It! confections in gluten-free, sugar-free and vegan…	1 vote 170 views