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Cooking for Pleasure: Sockeye salmon in a red chile sauce
Every summer I look forward to finding fresh sockeye salmon for sale in one of the local stores.…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Fish and chips with homemade tartar sauce
For years I struggled with different fish batter recipes, usually with lousy luck. The resultant deep-fried fish would…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Almond cake from a trip to Croatia
I should have probably titled this week’s column: “Eating For Pleasure.” My daughter, Sally and I spent the…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Individual eggplant parmesan rounds
These flavorful eggplant parmesans are a great side dish, especially served with roast chicken or fish. They also…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Mexican corn and bean salad
Several years ago, I ate at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles where I was served a…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Tortilla beef casserole for Cinco de Maya
When my kids were growing up their appetites were insatiable. Every night I had to come up with…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Secret to this chicken paprika is authentically fresh Hungarian spice
How to use up chicken breasts has been a life-long problem for me. While my dog was alive,…
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Cooking for Pleasure: A Glorious Fruit Salad for a Company Dinner
Most people don’t think of a fruit salad as a dessert. This one makes a fabulous and impressive…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Crispy shrimp spring rolls w/ spicy sweet chili sauce
It took me many years to feel brave enough to make my own crispy spring rolls. I always…
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Cooking for pleasure: Rosemary focaccia bread
When I am lucky enough eat at good Italian restaurants in Seattle or elsewhere, the warm focaccia often…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Decadent chocolate apricot bars
I love apricots. I prefer fresh to dried, but I am happy to eat them either way. I…
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Cooking for Pleasure: Alaska Rockfish for dinner
The halibut and salmon being sold right now are superb, delicious fish. But there are other options out…
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Cooking For Pleasure: A taste of Mexico in the dead of winter — tortilla soup
Many years ago on a family vacation near Zihuatenejo, we loved eating at a tiny restaurant down the…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Stuffed with turkey sandwiches? Try stuffing turkey enchiladas
Now that you have eaten all the turkey sandwiches you want, all that meat leftover from the giant…
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Cooking For Pleasure: No trauma pie crust (that actually tastes good)
The secret is keeping all of the ingredients very cold.
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Cooking For Pleasure: Serving up a warm mood in lousy weather
This Middle Eastern red lentil soup is not the sustenance of long-ago cold memories.
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Planet Alaska: Furikake — A sprinkle of summer
Pronounced FOO-ree-kaw-kay, meaning “to sprinkle.”