How to Salt Eggplant
This technique of salting eggplant removes bitter compounds and improves the texture.
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Christine Silk
- Oct 23, 2022
- 4 min
Squash & Sweet Potato Soup
A smooth, delicious soup that captures the flavors of fall. You can use any combination of winter squash, sweet potatoes or yams. It can...
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Christine Silk
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Pizzelles: Italian Waffle Cookies Flavored with Lemon and Almond
Pizzelles are Italian waffle cookies, crisp and not-too-sweet. They pair well with ice cream and coffee.
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Christine Silk
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
The Cheddar-Dill-Onion Bread That Won an Award
This is a delicious, savory bread that won an award in 2007
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Christine Silk
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
Dairy-Free Pumpkin Pie Custard
This diary-free pumpkin custard is every bit as delicious as pumpkin-pie, and is much easier to serve.
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Christine Silk
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Tartiflette: Rustic Potato-and-Cheese Gratin, French-Style
A cheese-and-potato tartiflette is perfect for cold weather. About 20 ounces of potatoes (I prefer waxy potatoes for this dish, such as...
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Christine Silk
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
Potato Pancake with Poached Egg
The backstory follows the recipe. About 5 or 6 ounces (by weight) of shredded raw potato OR the same weight of leftover baked or boiled...
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Christine Silk
- Sep 25, 2020
- 3 min
Cheese Triangles: Forget the Greek Word, Just Call Them Amazing
Savory phyllo triangles filled with four different cheeses are perfect with cocktails or as part of a Mediterranean meal
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Christine Silk
- Jul 13, 2020
- 5 min
Queen of Hearts Strawberry Tart
This strawberry tart includes rhubarb compote and vanilla pastry cream -- a dessert fit for a queen.
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Christine Silk
- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
Pot de Crème: The French Version of Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients: 250 g dark chocolate such as Lindt 70% (see below for suggestions) 150 g whole milk 350 g heavy cream 60 g sugar Optional: 1...
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Christine Silk
- Oct 22, 2019
- 5 min
Rugelach: A Cookie Recipe from Pittsburgh
I met Muriel Fleishman at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, in the 1990s. I was a graduate student and she was a secretary to...
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Christine Silk
- Sep 24, 2019
- 5 min
Award-Winning Peach & Cherry Coffee Cake
A friend of mine, who speaks several languages and learned English as an adult, once asked me whether "coffee cake" referred to a cake...
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Christine Silk
- Sep 19, 2019
- 3 min
Chocolate Cupcakes, Dairy-Free
When you think of dairy-free cake, what comes to mind? Sponge cake? Margarine- or shortening-based cake? This version uses a combination...
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Christine Silk
- Sep 4, 2019
- 3 min
Eggplant 101: How to Cook the Purple Globes
Eggplant is hard to cook correctly. Here's an easy method for succulent grilled eggplant that can easily become a vegetarian main course.
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