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lunch

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
Savory Snacks

National Pretzel Day, who knew!

Evidently, today is National Pretzel Day (in the US), so while I am feeling a bit homesick for Southern Germany this week — this is usually one of the weeks that I am home — I put together this platter of snacks: Brezn (of course), Obatzda (a Bavarian “pub cheese” that one often eats with pretzels), some salami and smoked ham, emmenthaller cheese, gherkins and olives. Bought forgot to add to the platter for the photo: radishes.

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26. April 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