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Childhood Re-Visited: Chicken Jaffa

My mom was a great cook… always experimenting with new recipes she had collected from friends or the newspaper.  A couple of years ago I found two of her recipes boxes I had forgotten I took when she passed away several years ago.  I made a promise to go through the recipes and make as many [...]

Veggin’ Out Turkey Chili!

Chili is great at this time of year.  Heck chili is good any time of year.  The beauty of chili is you can make it so many different ways, vary the heat, different meats, vegetables or totally vegan.  I like it on the lean side made with ground turkey rather than beef.  I’ve also made this [...]

Red Velvet Mini Cupcakes

Red Velvet cuppers preparing for transit!

Red Velvet cake and cupcakes seems to have developed quite a following in the last few years.  I had never heard of them until and friend asked me to make them for his birthday several years ago.  It was before the ease of surfing the web for recipes so I [...]

Crispy Spicy Kale Chips

This is a recipe by Jack Ricci.  I thought it was too good not to share.  I haven’t had a chance to try it yet – gotta dig out the dehydrator… not to mention find a place to put it when using…. I’m NOT kidding!!

If you try it, let me know what you think!!

Crispy Spicy Kale [...]

Poached Salmon in White Wine

I keep forgetting how easy it is to poach fish.  Using white wine gives it that extra oomph that makes it special!  Every time I serve this I get looks from those I’m serving that I must have spent hours in the kitchen slaving away.  This is actually one of those dishes I feel like I [...]

A New Year!

Hope everyone’s holiday was filled with joy and merriment and low on the stress.

Ah, it’s been so long.  I’ve have been busy with the holidays and gearing up for a big project (which I will write about soon) so I am remiss in my postings.  Never fear, I have returned with a new sense of purpose [...]

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to the Wonderful World Of Du (sounds like Oz, right?), where nothing is impossible, real food is abundant, no artificial ingredients and back to the basics cooking is encouraged.

Many have moved away from real food in favor of processed, packaged blech – it’s easy to stop by your local fast food joint and pick up [...]