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Smoky Pecans and Cashews with Bacon

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Don’t ever say that there is nothing worth reading in airline magazines. My sister-in-law Valerie clipped a recipe out of the Southwest Airlines magazine, Spirit, last year and this recipe was born of it. The original recipe is for cashews only, but you know I can’t resist throwing pecans into …click to continue Smoky Pecans and Cashews with Bacon

Tomato Confit BLT

I’ve never made a traditional BLT. I’ve never had the urge because I don’t think I’ve ever purposefully ordered tomatoes on a sandwich or burger. I told my mother when I was about four that “pamatoes” were nasty and I meant it with all of my little heart. Now I rather like them, but …click to continue Tomato Confit BLT

Potatoes with Buttermilk Dressing and Bacon

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This recipe is easy and it is wonderful. My favorite thing about it is that it allowed me to use a big handful of various herbs from my garden. You can use small amounts of dried herbs if you do not have access to fresh. The cost of buying a number of herbs at …click to continue Potatoes with Buttermilk Dressing and Bacon

Eight Layer Salad

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Following the dodo bird, presentation salads have wandered down the road to extinction. For the gelatin based creations I will mostly agree that this is a good thing, although a recent tryst with panna cotta made me re-consider my general reticence towards gelatin based goods. This has been a stupid prejudice, because gelatin is …click to continue Eight Layer Salad

Honey Dijon & Bacon Salad Dressing

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This is really a bait and switch. This post isn’t about the salad up there. It is about the dressing. Don’t fret…I’ll tell you about the salad, too. But the dressing is the point of the post.

A good salad dressing recipe is hard to find. Mine are usually last minute affairs. I start …click to continue Honey Dijon & Bacon Salad Dressing

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