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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.
  • Desserts & Breads

Fixing the (Nearly) No-Knead Bread

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on May 4, 2019November 20, 2020

No doubt if you enjoy cooking or baking you have at one time stumbled across the “No Knead Bread” recipe. Here’s how to make it much easier and more flavorful.

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  • Snacks

Pickle Me This: Spicy Okra

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on April 20, 2019November 20, 2020

Okra has a reputation. Southern. Gumbo. “Slimy.” Let’s pickle them, instead, and leave the stereotypes behind.

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  • Side dish

Grandma’s Gruyere Gratin Potatoes

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on April 6, 2019November 14, 2025

Grandma Lehman wrote on her newsprint recipe, “Great on a cold winter night or for a summer picnic.” How can you argue with that?

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  • Drinks

The Negroni Cocktail, Right or Wrong?!

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on March 22, 2019November 20, 2020

The Negroni is a classic Italian cocktail; a bitter apertivo enjoyed before a meal or with appetizers. Then there’s a “wrong” Negroni, which is just right for me!

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  • Brunch

Spring Screams Shrimp Salad!

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on March 9, 2019November 20, 2020

Spring screams shrimp salad! Say that five times fast. 

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  • Desserts & Breads

“Pat My Shoe? What?!” (Pâte à Choux French Pastry Dough)

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on February 23, 2019November 20, 2020

Pâte à choux is the French pastry dough used to make all sorts of delicious (easy) and impressive (easy) desserts. Did I mention that the dough is easy to make?

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  • Desserts & Breads

Je Ne Sais Quoi Cake (Star Anise and Pear)

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on February 8, 2019November 20, 2020

Alluring and complex, star anise is the “je ne sais quoi” ingredient of this deceptively simple cake.  

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  • Poultry/Meat

Chicken Soup for the Bowl

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on January 25, 2019March 30, 2024

I believe every home cook needs a chicken soup recipe.  Mine offers you a springboard of possibilities.

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  • Dinner

Adult Mac and Cheese

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on January 12, 2019September 20, 2022

Macaroni and Cheese as an adult or even elegant dish? If you picture a blue box, probably not. Let’s talk….

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  • Soup

New Year’s Day Lentil Soup

  • by gregnelsoncooks
  • Posted on January 1, 2019February 22, 2021

According to Italian lore, for good, luck eat lentils for the New Year. In the southern US it’s black eyed peas.

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