Kitchen Epiphanies

KITCHEN epiphanies

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Meatball Chili

This Meatball Chili is my make-ahead-keep-in-reserve dinner this month.  Each December, I focus on baking cookies, breads, and cakes, pickling herring, making pâtés, and curing meats for our traditional Scandinavian and Ukrainian Christmas celebrations. Other meals throughout this month are often thrown together at the last minute from leftovers and pantry ingredients.  This year, I …

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Cajun Tourtière – Recreating a Lost Recipe

I embarked on recreating the Cajun Tourtière after learning that this traditional dish vanished many decades ago. When our daughter Sophia settled in New Orleans, I became interested in learning about Christmas traditions brought to French-ruled Louisiana by Acadian emigres after their expulsion by the British from Nova Scotia in the 18th century.  Those French-speaking …

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