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Combine butter, cream cheese, chives, zest, Tabasco, and salt to taste. Transfer to pastry bag w star tip. Halve radishes and place flat parsley leaf on each. Pipe butter on top (or use two spoons if bag bursts). Butter   6T Cream Cheese   2T Lemon Zest   0.25 tsp Chives   1T Hot Sauce…

Mix all ingredients and put in jelly roll pan. Toast in moderate oven (375), stirring every 5 min, 15 min or until toasted. Pumpkin Seeds 14oz can, or use freshWorcestershire Sauce2TButter 2TCheese, Parmesan 2TSalt

This recipe is wonderfully flexible. For the filling, in place of feta, you could swap in Gouda, Swiss, cheddar or any hard cheese you’d like. Feel free to replace some or all of the cream cheese and sour cream with ricotta or cottage cheese. Burikitas can be assembled ahead of time and frozen. You can…

Preheat oven to 400. Grease 36 tiny muffin cups. In large bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, meal, salt and baking powder. Add onion. Working quickly, in 2 batches, peel and quarter potatoes and chop finely in food processor. Add to egg mix and stir until coated well. Working quickly, spoon a rounded T of mix…

Working in batches, coarsely grind the portobellos in a food processor. In a very large skillet over medium high, heat the oil. Add shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, until softened, 1 to 2 min. Add mushrooms, reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until all liquid is evaporated, about 30 min. Raise heat…

Put the pecans in a bowl and cover with cold water. Let stand for 1 hour. Meanwhile, in a small heatproof bowl, cover the porcini with the boiling water and let stand until softened, about 15 minutes. Rub the porcini to remove grit; transfer them to a small bowl. Reserve the soaking liquid. Cut the…

Thaw pastry 20 min. Unfold and roll on lightly floured surface to 14 x 11 rectangle. Spread evenly w pesto and sprinkle w Parmesan. Starting at long edge, roll up pastry like a jelly roll. Cut crosswise in 3/8 in slices. Place on lightly greased baking sheet and brush w egg mix. Bake at 400…

Coarsely chop peppers and place in food processor w garlic and almonds. Process until smooth. Add olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and process until combined. Scrape into a fine mesh sieve and drain well. Stir in parsley. Makes about 2/3 c. Peppers, Red 2 roasted, 1 stemmed, cored, etc. (all sweet)Garlic 3 cloves,…

Heat oven to 375.Mix all ingredients except peppers. Split peppers don the center and dispose of seeds and ribs. Rub w oil. Stuff peppers, pressing cheese mix down. Roast until peppers have softened and cheese has just started to bubble, abut 15 min. Broil 2-3 min til golden. Peppers 12, sweet or jalapeno, halvedCheddar Cheese…

Wash peppers, quarter them lengthwise, and remove and discard seeds and membranes. Place in very large skillet and toss w 1/2 c vinegar and salt. Cover and cook over low flame until soft and tender (25 min) adjusting heat so peppers cook slowly. By the end of cooking time, most of the liquid will have…