Category Archives: Main Dishes

Pork Tenderloin with Onions and Blue Cheese

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   (Not my mother’s pork chops.)    My mother made the best breaded pork chops.  End of story.  Lunch was the big meal of the day on Sundays in New England and we always lingered over seconds of her crispy on … Continue reading

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Dagrún Ása´s Favorite Salmon

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 It was a dark and stormy night.  Rain, sleet, snow, wind, cold . . . So we lit a fire in the fireplace, and invited a friend to join us for dinner and a hot game of Scrabble. Oli kept the menu … Continue reading

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Oli’s Pasta

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  Oli held a pasta 101 class for me the other night.  It gave me a chance to use my pasta machine for the first time.  Here we share his technique for making this fresh tri-color delight. Face it.  Pasta’s best … Continue reading

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Stuffed Loin of Pork

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Like the song says, “Baby, it’s COLD outside”!   Why not heat up the kitchen with the warm winter time aromatics of a sage stuffed pork loin?  This is a typical winter dish in Scandinavia especially in Denmark where they are famous for their … Continue reading

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Gravlax / Dill Cured Salmon

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Cured food is an old way of storing food.  Techniques for preserving food have been around for hundreds of years. Pickling, salting, smoking, drying… all of these methods were used a lot when people didn’t have any refrigerators or freezers and needed to store the food. Now we have … Continue reading

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Turducken for Thanksgiving

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At Grandma’s house I like the taste of turkey anytime throughout the year, but it never seems to taste as good as when Thanksgiving’s here. Could be it’s the trimmings that are cooked with it to eat, but I think … Continue reading

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