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dinner

Appetizers/Starters, Breakfast/Brunch, Savory Snacks

Chanterelle + Caramelized Onion Breakfast Tarts

Here a bit using the of bounty from my weekend in Maine: Chanterelle and Caramelized Onion Breakfast Tarts with the chanterelles that I foraged in the woods myself. Let me start with this disclaimer: If you do not know your wild mushrooms, please don’t go foraging; just buy them in the shops. Even if you know your mushrooms, please be exceptionally careful. I have been “mushroom hunting” since I was a toddler with my family … it’s a German thing.

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1. July 2024
Appetizers/Starters, Dinner, Lunch, Soups

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Bisque

Catching up on something that I made for “red week” in my Cook/bake-a-long this week: Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Bisque. It’s really hearty but tart and “spring like”. As usual with creamed soups, it’s really hard to photograph, so I tossed in a few garlicky croutons. This recipe makes a whole bunch so it will feed a crowd and/or freezes well.

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4. May 2024
Dinner, Lunch

Arroz Amarillo + Sausage Stuffed Peppers

This is a particularly yellow dish. On purpose. I’m doing a little Cook/Bake-a-Long over on the CSPS FB page and this week is “Yellow Week”. Arroz Amarillo is of course, yellow by nature, but you could also use red or green bell peppers, zucchini instead of summer squash, and if you wanted to go vegetarian, skip the sausage and it will still be delicious.

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25. April 2024
Dinner, Lunch

Chicken Fricassée with Spring Vegetables

Chicken stews for me are often an autumn or winter meal; nice and hearty to take off the chill. While sometime you need that in the spring too, this one is filled with fresh seasonal green veggies: leeks, peas and pea pods and asparagus, in addition to the chicken and mushroom. Definitely filling and this recipe will feed an army worth of people, so make sure you use a nice big pot!

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16. April 2024