The Kitchen Chronicles

Adventures in City Cooking

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Spiced Pecans

The award-winning combo

The first time I made these pecans was for a holiday party. Making them was the type of thing that I knew I probably shouldn’t pursue – after all, I had an ambitious menu to execute, and no one was going to notice whether or not I provided artisanal spiced nuts in bowls carefully placed throughout the room. And yet, I was unable to talk myself out of doing it, justifying to myself that the recipe said I could make them two weeks in advance, and well before the party panic would have fully set in. This was not the first time, or I’m sure the last, that I’ve taken on too much completely unnecessarily, but this is one case where I’m so glad I did. Because these pecans, you guys, are…wait for it…NUTS.

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Black-Bottom Peanut Pie

In honor of Pi Day, I promised to bring in a pie today for my colleagues. I got all the ingredients on Friday after work and was excited to try something new and then devise a way to lug it on my commute with me. Unfortunately, while springing forward this weekend, I fell right into a pile of the flu which means that I’m home sick today, staring at a nearly whole delicious pie, with no appetite.

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Braised Stuffed Quail

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We are squarely in the middle of winter. The holidays feel long gone but spring is not even remotely around the corner yet, and from now until the end of March there are so many root vegetables to eat and get tired of eating.  In the name of mixing things up in the bleakest time of the year, I’m working on cooking more meat – roasting and braising. It’s not as though I don’t eat meat (I would say I prepare it once a week but eat it maybe every other day), but when I do it’s not usually the centerpiece of the dish – more like just another ingredient. So in the name of a challenge, I decided that instead of starting out with the goal of perfecting a roast chicken like a normal, reasonable person, I’d make stuffed quail.

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Sweet Cream Biscuits

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In a lot of ways, this holiday season didn’t exactly fall into place the way I would have hoped. It still doesn’t feel much like Christmas, owing in part to the fact that it’s 50 degrees outside and raining. But somehow, which I guess it does every year, this week crept up on me without making a single sound, and when I turned around this weekend and it was December 19, I was shocked. I’d wanted to make so many holiday cookies, ones I’d grown up on and new ones, too, and share them here, but between a new job and getting sick, I only got to a single (albeit delicious) batch. At this point, I will just commit to doing a better job planning ahead next year, and I’m bringing you these biscuits as a consolation prize. They take 15 minutes to throw together and you can still get them on your holiday table.

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