Kitchen Therapy

Hungarian beef stew with caraway seeds photo by vsimon No, the caraway seeds are not negotiable. This started as a recipe called Hungarian Goulash from Cooking Light. To me it is really more stew than goulash. “Goulash” to Wisconsinites is a mishmash of ground beef, tomatoes (maybe canned tomato soup), and macaroni. Seasoning is limited [...]

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wild rice chicken soup photo by vsimon A client requested Wild Rice Soup, please. I responded “sure”. Then I searched some of my favorite online recipe sites. Allrecipes.com had a likely candidate, Wild Rice Soup III, submitted by Diane. It is quick I adapted it for a pressure cooker, as I often do. Why take [...]

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Cocoa Melt Away Cookies photo by vsimon clockwise: powdered sugar, cocoa and cinnamon, granulated sugar These were a happy accident last year. It started out as a trial run of a recipe called Deep Dark Chocolate Cookies from Bon Appétit. The ingredients were cocoa, dark chocolate, eggs, a bit of cornstarch, salt and a lot [...]

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