Make this salad and its creamy dressing with chicken or shrimp, crème fraîche or sour cream, simple or fancy greens and vegetables. All good.
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Thanksgiving Planner 2021
Thanksgiving Dinner 2021: A Traditional-Style Feast for Six. A how-to for a homemade feast, from turkey to pie.
Christmas Menu for Six: Dinner Fit for a King … or Three Kings … and Three of Their Guests
Christmas Menu for Six: feta-stuffed French bread, coffee-encrusted pork roast, hasselback potato gratin, carrots with whiskey and ginger, caramelized Brussels sprouts, raspberries and cheese, black forest buche de noel
Pork Tenderloin with Cider Reduction
It’s fall, and I’m thinking of apples. How about a pork tenderloin with a cider reduction? Along side it, white asparagus, and a potato/celery-root/cauliflower mash. For dessert, apple crisp. Now that’s dinner!
Cool, Blue, Sweet, and Spicy
This cool, blue, sweet, and spicy tropical dinner for four is fun and special without being fussy: Kahuna Salad, Spicy Coconut Beef and Vegetables, Blue Hawaiian cocktails, and Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. See the post for the menu and links to the recipes.
Cantina 1910
Cantina 1910: flavorful Mexican fusion in a colorful Chicago neighborhood. We’re talking small plates, ceviche, tacos, dinner plates, and we’re describing it all after two glasses of bourbon and mescal, with the lasso of truth compelling us to tell it like it is.