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Best Deep Dish Apple Cake
For years, my (once) mother-in-law made an incredible deep dish apple cake. She gave me the recipe and although I followed it to the letter, my cake, while good, never...
Best Ever Apricot Hamantashen with Bakery Style Dough
This dough, made with shortening and butter, yields a light, cookie-like pastry which is similar to the hamantashen you might expect to find in a commercial bakery. If you require...
Best Ever Buttermilk Banana Bread
A mellow and classic banana bread with just enough sweetness, moistness and warm banana flavour to make it a...
Best Ever Buttermilk Crisped Onion Rings
There are many ways to make onion rings. This recipe offers the lightest, crispest rings imaginable. Panko are Japanese breadcrumbs and if you try them once, (Costco sells them or...
Best Ever Buttermilk Fried Chicken
This is really great fried - tender, crisp and oh-so-Southern. The buttermilk soaking is imperative and the heavy load of spices is the other secret to this great classic. Serve...
Best Ever Chicken Soup and Matzoh Balls
The classic deli soup and a proven cold remedy (matzoh ball recipe included). This is the definitive version - nothing beats this elixir, tonic, and overall aphrodaisiac. Just don't serve...
Best Ever Chocolate Silk Pie
A dark and velvety chocolate experience featuring a decadent set pudding (almost a truffle) filling that is as smooth as silk. Old time Chocolate Silk pies called for melted chocolate,...
Best Ever Chunky Apple Bread Pudding Muffins
Mini bread puddings – golden, sweetly eggy and plunked into a muffin mold for out-of-hand eating – who would have imagined such an ambrosial concoction? This amazing, Starbucks-sort-of-apple muffins whip...
Best Ever Giblet Gravy
I have a few tricks to make my turkey gravy. This is ambrosial slathered over biscuits, turkey or mashed potatoes. It is one of those blue ribbon recipes that a...
Best Ever Homemade Cranberry Sauce
The Queen of The Bogs is not to be denied. This is sumptuous: tart, sweet, interesting, addictive - the absolute best cranberry sauce ANYONE can make.