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Soft Pumpkin Cookies

Soft Pumpkin Cookies

Soft pumpkin cookies with brown sugar icing are a cakey favorite for fall, with pecans and a cooked brown sugar icing that tops them perfectly.

Chicken and Cauliflower Soup

Chicken and Cauliflower Soup

Chicken and cauliflower soup is the perfect winter warm up- a whole chicken is boiled with carrots, onions and a whole head of cauliflower and seasoned with Hungarian paprika.

Brown Sugar Pound Cake

Brown Sugar Pound Cake

One of my favorite things to do when I go home is to page through Mom’s old, decrepit recipe box.  I don’t do it more than maybe once a year, but sometime I’ll go home and she’ll need something from it and I’ll find myself looking and old favorites, written hastily on any scratch paper that happened to be around at the time;  receipts, slips of paper, and a few on proper recipe cards.

While thumbing through the archives this weekend, I happened upon our family recipe for brown sugar pound cake, written in my dad’s meticulous handwriting.  Despite being delicious, neither Mom nor I ever make it, but we both knew right then that I’d be our contribution to Monday night’s barbecue.

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Cheesy Breakfast Potatoes

Cheesy Breakfast Potatoes

Cheesy breakfast potatoes are the only ones that you’ll want on your brunch table! Soft boiled potatoes are crisped up in a pan with melted cheddar cheese.

Kifli

Kifli

Hungarian-style kifli are rugelach type holiday cookies made with a unique pastry dough made of butter and cottage cheese, filled with jam.

Short Ribs with Polenta

Short Ribs with Polenta

slow cooked short ribs

This is one of my favorite meals of the year. Slow cooked Short ribs with polenta.

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Chunky Beef Chili

Chunky Beef Chili

Easy chunky beef chili topped with cornbread and shredded cheese You guys, is there any dish more quintessentially fall than a good chunky beef chili? I mean, think about it. Hard. Maybe  pumpkin, but not IMO.

Croissant Breakfast Wrap

Croissant Breakfast Wrap

This croissant breakfast wrap is eggs, cheese and ham all wrapped up and baked in golden ready-made crescent rolls.

Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake

Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake

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Different flavored ice cream is layered together with crushed cookies, nuts and candy bars, and frozen solid into this Monster Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake. 

How ‘bout them Olympics, yah?  Good stuff! Needless to say, my attention has been grabbed.

But on to today’s delight.

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Hungarian Lecsó

Hungarian Lecsó

Stewed onions, tomatoes and peppers make up this traditional Hungarian lecsó, the perfect nod to summer’s bounties and easy to make.