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Mushrooms

Appetizers

Oven Fried Mushrooms with Sriracha Dipping Sauce

“I helped! Shake ’n Bake, all grown up—and with mushrooms.”

That old-school shake-in-a-bag magic, updated for crispy baked mushrooms that are anything but retro and add a touch of Sriracha for a little zing.

“Baked, not fried” brings back a memory from the 60’s: a Shake ’n Bake commercial, a little girl with the most exaggerated Southern accent, and that unforgettable line—“It’s Shake ’n Bake… and I helped.”

I’m flashing back to 1969—bell bottoms, corduroy pants (snake skin print), oven-fried chicken. I didn’t even use Shake ’n Bake back then. Now the shake-and-bake idea has gone to culinary school (I did) and grown up into something better.

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Pasta/ Poultry

Chicken Fettuccini with Mushrooms and Asparagus

I love the creaminess of fettuccini!

Lately I’ve been focusing more on afternoon tea parties than the  “what’s for dinner” question I get late every afternoon. I love making tea foods and planning the party and it is a lot more work than throwing something together for dinner. But while looking for some ingredients for making a new scone I realized the pantry needed a little TLC.

Seems like I reorganize my pantry every week. Before we moved into our new house and renting a little 850 square foot house, my pantry was a broom closet that my husband converted into a pantry. You wouldn’t believe what I could get into this tiny pantry. Now I have this huge pantry that holds not only food that would last me a year (not really) but every pan and gadget I own and believe me I have a pan for every need. You name it – madeline, donut, barquette molds, flower molds, cannoli forms, Charlotte pan; if you can think of it I probably have it and I have used probably 99% of them at one time. If you ever need a special pan and live close by, you can borrow one of mine.

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