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Italian Marinated Mushrooms With Pecan Smoked Garlic

Italian Marinated Mushrooms With Pecan Smoked Garlic by Bob Vincent

These mushrooms and garlic make a great addition to an antipasti platter or as an additon to a salad. Add cubes of cheese, olives, roasted red peppers, sliced banana peppers, salami and a glass of wine to make for a perfect first course. Serve at room temperature as the flavors will be best then. Don't throw out the mushroom…

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Creamy Italian Dressing

Creamy Italian Dressing by Bob Vincent

This is adapted from a recipe in Cuisine At Home. The original used much more sugar which I cut back on. I increased the amount of granulated garlic and added garlic pepper. I also added finely minced parsley for some color. The addition of sugar makes for a slightly sweet dressing. I used it on a main dish salad which had…

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Mega Garlic Basil Foccacia

Mega Garlic Basil Foccacia by Bob Vincent

This Foccacia bread is adapted from a recipe made at the California Culinary Academy at a "Weekends At The Academy" class that I took 17 years ago. This course was on Pizza & Flatbreads. We made four different breads all of which are excellent. Sadly they no longer offer these classes for the home chef; they were great fun and an…

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Clean Out the Refrigerator & Pantry Soup

Clean Out the Refrigerator & Pantry Soup by Bob Vincent

The beauty of soup is that is has no boundries. Anything can become soup. It is filling. It is economical. This concoction is the result of trying to clean out the refrigerator, pantry and a couple of freezer items before going grocery shopping for the week today. My motto for soup is use whatever you have on hand but still come…

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Italian Meatballs

Italian Meatballs by Bob Vincent

These are tasty meatballs. Everyone has their own version. This one was based on what I had on hand and the fact that I needed to use up some ground beef and pork I used for something else. Though traditional Italian meatballs are usually fried I elected to bake them to reduce fat content a bit. I made a large batch which resulted…

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