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Visit weekly for original and adapted recipes as well as cooking tips to make your kitchen life easier — and more delicious! I’ll include simple, straight forward instructions along with recipes that are truly worth your time making. And, recipes that elevate the familiar and introduce you to the new and unexpected.
  • Breakfast and Brunch

Dutch, Dutch, Baby!

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on February 20, 2021

“Fancy” can be simple. There’s no better proof of this than a Dutch Baby oven-baked pancake.

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  • Appetizers

Pickle Me This: Lemon Pepper Celery Sticks

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on February 6, 2021

No one really enjoys munching on plain raw celery, do they? Try simple pickled lemon pepper celery, instead!

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  • Appetizers

Variations of Lentil and Rice Empanadas-Samosas-Pasties-Hand Pies Whatchamacallits

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on January 23, 2021

Whether you call it a Spanish empanada, an Indian samosa, an English pasty, or an American hand pie, they all have the same thing in common — they are vegetables or meat baked or fried in a dough.

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  • Lunch

Polish-style Creamed Cauliflower Soup

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on January 9, 2021

With only a handful of very basic ingredients, you can make this luxurious Polish-style creamed cauliflower soup

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  • Perspective

Shaking Up our Routines

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on December 19, 2020

As we await a vaccine to turn our lives back to normal, there are things we can do now to change how we feel. Cooking forces you to “be in the moment” and shut everything else out.

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  • Brunch

The Sentinel Salad (Fennel and Smoked Whitefish)

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on December 5, 2020December 6, 2020

One of my favorite take-away lunch spots when I worked in downtown San Francisco offered a shaved fennel, apple and smoked whitefish salad. The salad works equally well with chicken or duck.

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  • Grains

Holiday (or anytime!) Savory Bread Pudding with Green Beans

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on November 21, 2020

If there were ever a year to try something new for Thanksgiving (or any holiday meal), it’s 2020! I mean, what could go wrong?!

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  • Dinner

Zuppa Ribollita Toscana (Tuscan Ribollita Soup)

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on November 7, 2020November 22, 2020

It doesn’t get more Tuscan than Ribollita, a soup found on menus and in Italian kitchens everywhere in the fall and winter.

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  • Breakfast and Brunch

Variations on a Deep-Dish Quiche

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on October 24, 2020November 22, 2020

Quiche has an air of elegance to it, doesn’t it? Really, though, with the requisite custard base, it can be a dumping ground for whatever you have in your refrigerator!

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  • Desserts & Breads

My Family’s Pumpkin Loaf

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on October 10, 2020December 11, 2020

Pumpkin-spiced this, that, and everything in between might be all the rage, but my family has been making this pumpkin loaf for over 30 years.

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