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Salmon Cakes with Spicy Apricot Dip

Salmon Cakes with Spicy Apricot Dip
I am trying to be more of a seafood lover.  I love mussels, shrimp, and crab.  But salmon and other fish?  I look at it in the grocery store and say “not today!” But last week I got a piece of salmon in the discount seafood bin.  I know what you are thinking “they have a seafood bin like the meat bin?!”  Yep!  But I...
March 22, 2019

Apple Ring Pancakes

Apple Ring Pancakes
Ever since we went apple picking in early September, it’s been “what else can I make with apples!”  And I am not sad about it.  I’ve literally had an apple a day (at least!) since then.  Instead of drinking wine and potato chips on the train ride home, I am eating an apple!  Go me!     This is a honeycrisp apple – I don’t know...
October 11, 2018

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
Oh, that’s right.  It’s still April in Chicago, so that means you’ll have temps in the 80s one day, and then barely get out of the 40s.  I actually had to turn our heat on, which has been off for probably two weeks.  Luckily all three of us don’t mind a cool house, but yesterday I was downright cold.  Hannah was home for me with...
April 27, 2016