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Cooking for Pleasure: Three layers of sweetness
These bar cookies combine layers or shortbread, chocolate and toasted nuts
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Cooking for Pleasure: Making local shrimp the star
Shrimp pasta à la New Orleans focuses on the seafood
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Cooking For Pleasure: Barbecued baby back ribs
This time of year, my barbecue grill starts calling to me. So despite the temperatures in the mid-40s…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Rich chocolate cream pie
About once a year I indulge myself with chocolate cream pie, using someone’s potluck as an excuse to…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Tortilla ‘dry soup’ (sopa seca de tortillas)
This recipe is based upon one in an old Mexican cookbook I’ve had for ages. Over the years…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Mary’s extreme bars
For at least 20 years, my sister Mary Watson has been making these cookies frequently, especially for her…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Braised carrots with garlic and thyme
When I was growing up, my parents never, ever served cooked carrots for dinner. Nor were they even…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Easy cinnamon rolls
My father really loved cinnamon rolls. In his later years I would make bargains with him in which…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Shrimp gumbo for Mardi Gras
I love gumbo. Several years ago I was lucky enough to go to New Orleans and sample it…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Chinese-style fried rice
At most of the Chinese restaurants I’ve eaten at over the years, the fried rice accompanying the meal…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Orange apricot muffins for breakfast
A few years ago when I had a bag of oranges and a half eaten bag of dried…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Restaurant-style Caesar salad
When I go to a fine restaurant and Caesar salad is on the menu, it is usually the…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Fish Szechwan style
Ever since I started writing this column, I have debated whether to include this recipe which I have…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Tortilla casserole with leftover turkey
This is a great way to use leftover turkey should you have any remaining from Thanksgiving. If you…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Pumpkin cheesecake with a pecan crust
For those of you who struggle with trying to figure out how to bake pies and also put…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Mexican cornbread loaf with roasted green chiles and cheese
Many years ago when I lived in Tucson, Arizona, I was lucky enough to have neighbors of Mexican…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Sheet pan tomato soup
Whenever I get my hair done at Salon Cedar, owner Brendan Sullivan and I talk about food nonstop.…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Nine-hour pork roast with crackling
For a few months now I have been craving an old-fashioned pork roast, one with the skin on…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Green salad with blackberries, pecans, pears and blue cheese
This is an unusual salad that I love to serve as a first course for a company dinner.…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Crisp sugar cookies with your choice of flavors
When I was about 14 years old I babysat for a very fine cook who gave me this…