Jan Norris: Food and Florida

I love the Splendid Table radio show on American Public Media stations. Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a cool host with such down-to-earth, solid kitchen advice, and her producer Sally Swift is a godsend to cooks everywhere. The callers are thoughtful and witty, and there are some serious recipes given out on the show that have [...]

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Last year, I wrote about one of my dad’s favorite desserts – Lemon meringue pie. Today, I’m giving you the recipe for Chocolate French silk pie – his other favorite, in honor of Father’s Day.

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Across the Americas and Europe, baking sweet treats for Christmas is a tradition. Most of the cookies we Americans make are variations on cookies handed down through the decades, adapted to today’s ovens and technology, and ingredients. Everyone seems to have a story to go with the recipes, too – these are among my favorite [...]

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This Shepherd’s Pie, from Maguire’s Hill 16 in Fort Lauderdale  is a great recipe to make ahead, freeze, and have ready when you need a comfort food fix. It’s from my column today in the Sun Sentinel. Freeze them in freezer-to-oven dishes in single servings.

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My good friend Pat Williams, whom I met doing a story that included Indian River Select juices, saw my Lost and Found recipe feature and wrote this to me: I used to make this 15 or 20 years ago. Somewhere in my moves, I lost the recipe. My best friend from high school visited me [...]

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