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Burrata and Apple Microgreens Salad

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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 […]

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Ham Biscuits with Blackberry Honey Butter

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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 […]

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Lobster Salad on Fried Green Tomatoes Hors d’oeuvres

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Cocktail parties are the most versatile party to give.  You can pack together a group of people – as many as you like, and they don’t need to know each other at all (in fact it’s more fun if they don’t).  It ‘s a graceful way to make matches for business or romance without the pressure of guests having to spend an entire meal together.  When a party gets buzzy and laughter rolls around the room, it’s magical.  Guests have […]

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Easy Summer Hors D’Oeuvres

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This is such a luscious time of year!  The stone fruits, the bountiful green vegetables piled up at roadside stands and farmer’s markets – they beckon to us to cook for ourselves and enjoy the sensual pleasure of creating something delicious.  It’s a great time to invite a few friends over for a drink, and whip up some hors d’oeuvres out of all this irresistible produce.  (By the way, “hors d’oeuvres” is one of the hardest words to spell, and […]

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Butterflied Fried Panko Shrimp

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In keeping with the summer hors d’oeuvres theme, here is an American classic presented as an hors d’oeuvre.  When I was 12, we took a family car trip to California.  I ate fried shrimp everywhere they had it for three weeks straight.  And then I didn’t eat it again for about thirty years, because fried shrimp in Amarillo or Dubuque in 1968 was not an informed menu choice.  But the memory of the shrimp binge has faded and I’m back […]

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