New Blog Site: CookLikeMad.com

WordPress.com, you’ve treated me well, but I’m ready to take off the training wheels. Please come to my new website (still a blog, of course), CookLikeMad.com, for all new posts, pictures, and recipes. Seafood Gumbo will be the next post, so check there later tonight for your new favorite recipe for this comforting Southern dish. [...]

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Chicken Pot Pie with Easiest Pastry Crust

Just look at that photo above- do I even need to say anything to encourage you to make this pot pie? Feel free to bake this in individual ramekins so you can serve them in their baking dishes. With this rustic dish, that would be a beautiful presentation. Interestingly enough, this dough is very similar [...]

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Balsamic Braised Chicken with Broccolini and Potatoes

Ignore those button mushrooms next to the broccolini (or don’t)- I just sauteed them and put them on the plate to use up leftover mushrooms in the fridge. They married well with the other ingredients, though. I’m cooling off from my sugar rush and getting back to my culinary school basics. While I cooked some [...]

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Easiest Cookies Part 2: Palmiers (Mini Elephant Ears)

Aw, they look like hearts… Good thing v-day’s coming up! Palmiers are the biggest trick in the book. They not only require two ingredients, frozen puff pastry and sugar, but maintain their addictive crunch for days after they’re baked. Using a silpat makes clean up especially easy, but the puff pastry has enough butter in [...]

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Autumn Pork Chops with Stuffed Tomatoes

Tonight’s dinner was both simple and impressive- simple for the chef, impressive for the bf. Does weeknight cooking get any better than that? I named these pork chops “Autumn” since they share the plate with mushroom-stuffed tomatoes. Stuffing, in any form, epitomizes fall to me, and here, crammed inside hollow tomatoes, it enriches a would-be [...]

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Kashi Apple Pancakes

I wrote a post a little while ago about using Pimms in turkey meatballs to avoid wasting it. Not surprisingly, it appears alcohol is not the only item in my cupboard that is in need of creative application! I opened a box of Kashi Go Lean cereal around the time I moved to DC two [...]

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Pimm’s Polpette

Ever find a special alcohol or ingredient that you just have to have in the store, buy it, drink it or cook with it once and then totally lose interest? Yeah, it happens to me, too. Normally I can resist these urges, but when I had a Pimm’s Cup at Bar Martignetti a couple weeks [...]

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