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Shaved Winter Salad with Roasted Tomato and Shallot Vinaigrette

Shaved Winter Salad with Roasted Tomato and Shallot Vinaigrette by Susan

Shaved Winter Salad with Roasted Tomato and Shallot Vinaigrette8 servingsIngredients:For the Salad:To make the vinaigrette:Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Put the tomato halves and the shallots on a baking sheet and lightly brush them with olive oil.…

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Grilled Peri Peri Chicken Kabobs with Roasted Potatoes and Green Chili Sauce

Grilled Peri Peri Chicken Kabobs with Roasted Potatoes and Green Chili Sauce by Susan

In answer to a number of Sauce and Sensibility readers who have kindly asked for new posts…we are back! By way of explanation, Bob and I took a brief sabbatical while we adjusted to a new culinary lifestyle. This change is in the wake of our eldest son…

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Roasted Golden Beet and Apple Puree

Roasted Golden Beet and Apple Puree by Susan

Roasted Golden Beet and Apple PureeI met a woman at a party not too long ago and we bonded over our mutual love of cooking. Talk turned to our favorite Thanksgiving side dishes, and she said that one of hers was the Beet Puree in the original Silver Palate Cookbook. Since I too have cooked my way through that book, I remembered the…

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Sausages in Red Wine

Sausages in Red Wine by Susan

Sausages in Red WineI love fall days where you can take a brisk morning walk, hear the wind in the trees and feel the crunch of dry leaves underfoot—days like that never fail to make me run to the recipe box to find something to make for dinner that matches the cozy mood set by the weather. In Germany, where delicious sausages were…

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Crispy Fish Tacos with Creamy Chipotle Sauce

Crispy Fish Tacos with Creamy Chipotle Sauce by Susan

Crispy Fish Tacos with Creamy Chipotle SauceServes 4Ingredients for the Sauce:To make the sauce, stir together all of the ingredients into a serving bowl and set aside.To prepare the fish: combine the flour and the seven seasonings in a shallow dish or pie pan. Dip the tilapia strips into the buttermilk and then dredge in the seasoned…

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Indian Spiced Sliders with Curried Mayonnaise

Indian Spiced Sliders with Curried Mayonnaise by Susan

Ginger, cumin, garlic, and cilantro are separately four of my favorite flavorings, but together become a taste that I crave. So this Memorial Day weekend,I will make a batch of these well-seasoned sliders for a snack that the family can enjoy when we’re just hanging around the house. Sadly for my kids, for much of the weekend they…

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Pasta Primavera

Pasta Primavera by Susan

This now-classic pasta dish is not originally Italian, but was reputedly invented at Le Cirque restaurant in New York in the early 70s by a restaurateur named Sirio Maccioni. Mr. Maccioni’s dish is more complex than mine and his invention recommends that we cook the vegetables twice (once in water and again in oil) and then he topped…

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Bacon, Cheddar and Chive Mini-Muffins

Bacon, Cheddar and Chive Mini-Muffins by Susan

Bacon, Cheddar and Chive Mini-MuffinsTry these for breakfast with a bowl of fruit, as an afternoon snack with a tall, cool iced tea, instead of cornbread with a cup of chili or with your go cup of coffee on the run on your way out of the house for work or school. You’ll be surprised how quickly these will disappear.Buttermilk, Bacon,…

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Classic Coconut Macaroons

Classic Coconut Macaroons by Susan

Classic Coconut MacaroonsNot to be confused with their elegant and delicate French cousin, the macaron, this is a satisfying mound of a cookie that I seem to crave just a couple of times a year, especially at Easter time. A tad moist on the inside with a nice crunch on the edges is the result you can expect from this really easy…

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White Asparagus Gratin

White Asparagus Gratin by Susan

Growing up in Germany in the early 60s made for many interesting childhood memories, but few of them had anything to do with vegetables. We ate a lot of canned fruits and vegetables from the military P/X in those days—not much to remember about those items except they tasted great to childhood me even though they were mushy and laden…

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