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Burrata and Apple Microgreens Salad

I love this salad! It’s like an explosion of summer in your mouth: soft, sweet cheese and crispy green apples, joined with honey and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with crunchy pine nuts and strengthened by the fragrant, earthy taste of microgreens.  I wonder if it’s possible for food to affect the equilibrium, because it made me a little dizzy when I first tasted it. All flavor sensors firing in exaltation can do that to a person! I take no credit for […]

Fudge cookies
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Fudge Cookies

There are times when chocolate is called for, and when the need arises, I say, go Big or go home!  These cookies will assuage any chocolate craving, however long you’ve had it and no matter how badly you deserve to be compensated.  Chocolate is often about compensation: something that was supposed to happen didn’t – and so you need chocolate.  Or something you never wanted to happen did – and so you need chocolate.  It can’t be a daily occurrence; […]

Ham Biscuits with Blackberry Honey Butter on Americas-Table.com
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Ham Biscuits with Blackberry Honey Butter

There has always been an air of southern hospitality about the White House, situated as it is below the Mason-Dixon line. It’s reflected in the sumptuous afternoon reception buffets offered to guests, and one of the classic foods for those events is a good old-fashioned ham biscuit. There are many ways to make a great biscuit, but for this particular recipe I prefer those that are made without baking powder, so that the biscuits don’t raise too much. You wouldn’t […]