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Chicken Thighs with Fennel, Lemon and Garlic

From the San Francisco Chronicle Cookbook Recreated by Bill Ingredients: 12 chicken thighs drenched in seasoned flour 1 1/2 cups dry white wine 12 garlic cloves quartered 1 lemon, peeled, seeded and sliced 3 fennel bulbs sliced Sugar to taste … Continue reading

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20 Degrees Fahrenheit = Read a Cookbook and Bake

One day it’s 50 degrees and the next it 20 degrees. Get out your long underwear and the cookbooks. Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Coconut Cake

It’s birthday time for some of my friends! What comes to mind? Cake, of course. Classification: challenging baking moments. Many moons ago, I learned about making coconut cake. Remembering fondly the day when my friends’ grandfather Henry Buckman, know as … Continue reading

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