Old Favorite Revisited: Chicken Piccata ( or adapt for Flounder Picatta) I’ve always loved this dish; I don’t know why I haven’t made it in over 35 years! I watched a clip of Ina Garten make hers, and it looked  perfect. I think  I loved it even more than Benji did- he ate 3 whole […]

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After Thanksgiving this year, Danny told me that he wants me to go back to my old, old recipe from 12 years ago, which was my Aunt Florence’s recipe. So yesterday, I bought a beautiful 5 lb. piece of brisket from McCaffrey’s in Princeton, and I set about making my own retro recipe. One of […]

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Today, in honor of one of Benji’s favorite Dartmouth meals, Chicken Monday, which consisted of fried chicken cutlet, mashed potatoes with gravy, and canned corn, I recreated the meal on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. I normally make chicken cutlets with either plain breadcrumbs or Italian breadcrumbs, but I used matzoh meal, and it was the […]

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My cranberry sauce 2022 to the present: I used 2 bags organic cranberries (12 oz. each). I put the cranberries in a pot and added 1 ½  cups of sugar and 1 cup of water. I added 1 large apple peeled and cut into really small pieces and the juice from a large navel orange.  […]

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Best cornbread/corn muffins/blueberry corn muffins! I made these today on July 26,2022 with about 1 ½ cups of blueberries Currently, I definitely love this recipe the most for corn muffins and blueberry corn muffins! New fav corn muffins aug 2018 per Randi and benji and kids from Alex Guarnaschelli:  video of her making it : […]

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Tonight we were going to Dara’s house (Nov. 6, 2025) to celebrate Marcia’s birthday. The easiest cake to make is the chocolate cake with vanilla icing. I decided to try Ina Garten’s version which is almost identical to mine except that it calls for buttermilk instead of whole milk, and 1 cup hot black coffee […]

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I recently picked up a quart of pasta fagioli from Joe Leone’s in Point Pleasant, and I enjoyed it so much, I made my own version today. It is absolutely heavenly and satisfying on a chilly autumn day. Benji loved it, and I’ll bring some to Randi tomorrow at school for lunch. about 2 T […]

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I’m always trying to come up with more interesting vegetarian options when I cook for Ezra for our weekly Friday night dinners. It’s so easy for me to come up with the meat option, but not as as for the vegetarian. I know that Ezra likes tofu, and broccoli, and Chinese food, so I looked […]

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I used a combination of Ann Lander’s famous meatloaf recipe and my mother, Shirley Fried’s meatloaf recipe. This came out delicious! Noah and Hannah loved it! And that’s an accomplishment! about 2 3/4 lb. 85 percent Angus chopped meat from McCaffrey’s 1/2 cup plain Jason’s bread crumbs 1 1/2 cups mixture of one 8 oz. […]

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Peel 5 lbs. russet potatoes and then slice horizontally so each potato will be in 2 halves, then cut each half in 2 pieces. Put in large pot of cold water, bring to boil and simmer until potatoes are soft- like for making mashed potatoes- fork goes in easily. I used a slotted spoon to […]

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