Monthly Archives: July 2010

Every-day-is-my-birthday stroganoff

Posted on July 26, 2010 by hollycooking

A lot of kids clamor for pizza or McDonald’s on their birthdays. I always requested beef stroganoff. Far from resembling the gluey monstrosities rendered infamous by hospital cafeterias and pre-microwave era frozen dinners, my mother’s stroganoff was a creamy delight … Continue reading →

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Dessert emergency

Posted on July 25, 2010 by hollycooking

Do you ever get a post-dinner craving for something both delicious and sweet? (Duh. That’s why we have that thing called “dessert.”) If you try to live  even semi healthfully, the only options lying around your house are probably something … Continue reading →

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Matchy-matchy Salmon

Posted on July 17, 2010 by hollycooking

I usually resist recipes that instruct me to serve my main dish on a bed of this or a salad of that. Somehow it seems too matchy-matchy–like when I worked at the Gap for 6 weeks in 1991 and they … Continue reading →

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Gwyneth Paltrow eats salad dressing

Posted on July 2, 2010 by hollycooking

This salad dressing recipe comes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s annoyingly and pretentiously all-organic website Goop (via, of course, my favorite cooking blog  Smittenkitchen.com). The first surprise is that Gwyneth Paltrow eats. The second is that her dressing is actually very good: … Continue reading →

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