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Lisa Maguire
- Feb 18
- 5 min
Buckwheat Crêpes with Leek Jam
On this rainy day holiday weekend we went to the Hartford Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, an unjustly overlooked institution with an...
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Lisa Maguire
- Feb 4
- 4 min
Vegetable Ragù
When she was first married, my grandmother used to cook something for my grandfather called finnan haddie. I had only heard of this in...
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Lisa Maguire
- Jan 22
- 4 min
Spiced Tomato Quiche
It's the wrong time of year to be thinking about tomatoes, but I think about tomatoes all year round. I have also been enjoying eggs...
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Lisa Maguire
- Jan 2
- 4 min
Puffed Rice with Winter Vegetables
The New Year's weekend project was clearing out the big walk-in closet, which is lined with cedar and needed its periodic re-oiling, It...
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Lisa Maguire
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
French Onion Pasta
This is the time of year when we not only practice carbo-loading and stretchy pants, but we yearn for heart warming stories. I have a...
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Lisa Maguire
- Dec 4, 2022
- 3 min
Creamy Vegetable Stew with Orzo
This was the first week at a new job. One morning, while I was in the shower, my husband got the coffee ready for me. Espresso loaded...
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Lisa Maguire
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
Faith Kramer's Curried Carrot Tzimmes
Tzimmes in Yiddish means “a big fuss.” The Big Fuss is coming up next week, and I am buckling up for it. We are only a few people this...
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Lisa Maguire
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Grilled vegetable and pesto crêpes
I adore crêpes and almost never eat them. While there are many recipes for savory crêpes, I never seemed to have the imagination to think...
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Lisa Maguire
- Jun 1, 2021
- 5 min
Stuffed Tofu with Vegetables
I've been going through my mother's old recipes, which she clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted into spiral bound notebooks....
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Lisa Maguire
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
Gigante beans with Spinach and Feta
Dried beans are usually not my thing, since I never seem to plan ahead, and dried beans require soaking overnight as well as a lot more...
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Lisa Maguire
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
Roasted Eggplant and Saffron Rice
Why can't America be more like ShopRite?
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Lisa Maguire
- Dec 7, 2020
- 5 min
A bout de Soufflé
I have posted a couple of French recipes, but this blog really should feature more French cooking, since at one time I fancied myself a...
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Lisa Maguire
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
Colcannon
I am Irish, but raised completely unaware of Irish food. My parents had zero interest in, or nostalgia for, the Irish cooking they grew...
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Lisa Maguire
- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Pasta alla norma
I made this roasted eggplant and tomato sauce for the first time this week, when we were in need of comfort food watching the unending...
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Lisa Maguire
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
Mujaddara
I prefer cooking in small spaces, where everything is in arm's reach and you don't have to trek from place to place. I live in a small...
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Lisa Maguire
- Oct 17, 2020
- 4 min
Okonomiyaki (Japanese cabbage frittata)
For okonomiyaki you can use whatever you have in the fridge.
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Lisa Maguire
- Oct 9, 2020
- 5 min
Roman Rice-Stuffed Tomatoes (Pomodori al Riso)
My son is a picky eater. A really picky eater. For most of his childhood we called him the Decavore because he only ate ten things....
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Lisa Maguire
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Sauteed Corn with Garlic and Slow- Roasted Tomatoes
Can we discuss one thing first? That fork. That one effing fork you HATE. HATE HATE HATE. You know which one I mean.
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