Waffling Towards Dinner offers spin on breakfast for dinner and includes polenta (2), pesto scrambles eggs with ricotta, pancakes, creme brulee French toast, granola, and a pototo and onion tortilla, while Framers Market and Me celebrates homegrown goodness with asparagus with fried eggs, corn bread, kale salad, sausage salad, pomegranate roasted carrots, roasted eggplant with green goddess dressing and lentil soup.
In Learning to Like Fish, we are treated to fish stew, pan roasted scallops, grilled squid, roasted shrimp & broccoli, mussels steamed in ale and coconut fish stew. Tastes Like Chicken includes garlicky cashew chicken, tofu with peanut sauce, variations on cooking chicken thighs (peaches & basil, with apples or gin & coriander), roasted chicken, fragrant chicken fingers, schnitzel, chicken barely soup and a really easy duck confit.
The dishes in I was Never a Vegetarian consist of tofu with chorizo and shiitake mushrooms, sausage & peppers, oven roasted pork butt, bacon & pecan pralines, short ribs and lamb tagine, while Things with Cheese include quiche, spaetzle, mac & cheese and a baked Camembert. My Mother's Sandwich Theory of Life gives us pan bagnat, deviled egg salad, tofu salad, quesadillas, grilled cheese, watercress salad sandwich and my favorite - a soft shell crab sandwich.
Better Fried encompasses pan fried cheese, chorizo corn bites, shrimp fritters, deep fried bourbon peach pies and baked bourbon peach turnovers. For Holiday Foods, a few of the options are noodle or potato kugel, sweet and sour salmon, lemon pot roast, stuffings (lemon barley, apple sausage, lemon & sweet potato hash and chestnut), gingerbread frogs, lemon curd squares, fudgy bourbon balls and boozy fruitcake (is there any other kind??).
Moving on to the sweeter things in life, My Sweet Tooth and Me is filled with many yummy treats ~ Irish soda bread, blood orange olive oil cake, gooey honey butter cake, whiskey soaked dark chocolate Bundt cake, triple chocolate trifle and ice cream (bittersweet chocolate or maple walnut)., with Always Room for Pie offering various crusts (perfect, cheddar and pre-baked), brandied pumpkin, French honey apple tarts, sugar pie, peanut butter pie and a whole lemon tart.
Finally, Lessons in Imbibing instructs us on making homemade maraschino cherries or spiked brandied cherries, chocolate or mocha egg creams ad coconut meringue eggnog.
Comfort Food Fix, published in 2011. There are over 150 recipes prepared with natural ingredients, but with a healthy twist.
The first chapter is Breakfast, Brunch and Bakery, and offers up quiche Lorraine, waffles, mango stuffed challah French toast, porridge, muffins, pancakes and pumpkin bread with cranberries, and we continue with Snacks and Starters which consist of roasted red pepper hummus, 5 layers Mexican dip, paprika potato chips, dips, baked jalapeño peppers, nachos, wings, stuffed mushrooms, and shrimp spring rolls.
For Soups and Sandwiches, a few of the options are corn & crab chowder, split pea, New England clam chowder, mushroom, tomato and French onion soups, plus a Philly cheese steak sandwich, French bread pizza, tuna melt, pork sliders, curried egg salad and a grilled shrimp po boy. Meat Main Dishes include shepherd's pie, tacos, beef stew, meatloaf, country fried steak & gravy, brisket, lamb shanks and stuffed pork chops.
A few of the dishes introduced in Poultry Main Dishes are chicken marsala, turkey chili cassoulet and sesame, fried or Parmesan chicken, with Vegetable Main Dishes consisting of chili, vegetarian curry, calzones and risotto. Sides and Salads touch on scalloped potatoes, squash casserole, garlic bread sticks, baked beans, zucchini potato pancakes, coleslaw, three bean salad and a Waldorf salad.
The sweet endings in Desserts encompass cookies (kitchen sink or peanut butter, dark chocolate brownies, cupcakes, mini cheesecakes, banana pudding, rum raisin rice pudding, pies, cobbler, popsicles, dark chocolate pretzel clusters, a phyllo cherry turnover and a rustic pear tart.
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