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December Must Haves for the Holidays

December 15, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum

I love gift giving and wanted to share some of my favorites for the holiday, end of the year season.

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One Pot Chicken with Artichoke and Fettuccine

January 7, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Chicken wArtichokes

What a treat for you all…recently I was looking through old recipes and stumbled upon an oldie but a goodie, one pot chicken with artichokes and fettuccine.  I was given this recipe over 20 years ago, when I lived in Portland, Oregon and I made this chicken dish all the time, especially when I was entertaining.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Italian, Main Meals Tagged With: artichokes, catering, chicken, different, easy, entertaining, holiday, Italian, mm-good, mmgood, mushroom, Mushrooms, one pot, picatta, recipe, recipes, summer, unique, yum

Chocolate Fudge Cake

January 5, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Chocolate Cake

I wanted to end the 2015 year off with this chocolate fudge cake and ran into complications in posting the recipe…since it was such an amazing recipe I figured one last guilty indulgent before year end wouldn’t hurt, right?  The chocolate cake recipe didn’t post last week and even though I know most friends are on diets from chocolate as the season has come and gone, this recipe just had to be shared as it’s pretty amazing.  Here is how the post started…

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12 Days of Christmas – Coconut Cookies (macaroon style)

December 17, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

baked macaroon

My daughter’s friend, Amanda loves my chewy coconut magic bars so every time there is a party or celebration I make them for her as I know it means a lot.  Last night Amanda’s mom was hosting the soccer dinner party for the girls and I realized I didn’t make the magic bars for her so I created this recipe for a flourless coconut cookie with chocolate chips for them.

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Holiday Cranberry Punch…a Drink for Adults

December 14, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

cranberries

YUM, I love this recipe, cranberry punch for adults!  Look everyone knows that I was never the drink master in having my parties, my ex husband was amazing at making drinks for the adults and I made the food.  That’s why I am so excited to share this amazing drink with you as it’s super easy to make, it’s made in advance and it’s self serving (I always recommend having a self serving drink for a party so the host can enjoy the evening instead standing around and making the drinks).

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Holiday Favorites and Must Have Gifts

December 10, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

I often am asked what my favorite cookbooks are, favorite baking items and what my favorite appliances are.  For the holidays, I thought I’d share some of my favorites with you so you can give a gift to your loved ones, it’s a great gift list!

Favorite Cookbooks

  • Appetizers by Martha Stewart (her latest book is so inspirational)
  • Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
  • Tartine (this is a newer book but fabulous)
  • Flour – this cookbook comes from a bakery in Boston

Baking Items

  • 1/2 Sheet Baking Pan (as silly as it is, it does matter)
  • 1/4 Sheet Baking Pan (one of my favorites)
  • Parchment Sheets – I get this one because they lay flat, no curling edges

Appliances/Gadgets

  • Amazon Echo (Alexa) my favorite gift for the holiday
  • Kitchen aid Mixer (Splurge for holiday gift request)
  • Food Processor – a must have in any cooks kitchen
  • Cuisinart Immersion Blender with Attachments (this one eliminates pulling out the food processor for small jobs)
  • Commercial Grade High Heat Spatula – 9.5″
  • Commercial Grade High Heat Spatula – 13/5″
  • Mandoline – MUST HAVE
  • Stock Pot –  Great for Soups
  • Thermos (I get one for my children every year for Christmas)
  • Crock Pot – Great for make it and leave it meals or this one for Programmable Crock Pot
  • Electric Griddle – great for pancakes
  • Pastry Cutter – stop using your fork, it’s time to upgrade
  • Scale – must have for baking and proper measuring

 

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Noodle Kugel / Family Recipe

September 10, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum

Noodle Koogle

Noodle kugel is a traditional Jewish dish made for Rosh Hashanah and I have to admit that the first time I tried noodle kugel, 22 years ago, I didn’t like or understand it.  Being Italian I only understood pasta to be savory not sweet and with noodle kugel you are definitely getting a sweet, pudding type of a casserole recipe.

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Chicken Piccata with Artichokes

August 3, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Chicken Piccata

It has been almost 2 years since my girlfriend Susan and I did a catering job for a friend of ours.  We did baby shower luncheon menu with a cheese platter, hummus, vegetables, rice, salad and my famous chicken piccata with artichokes.   I have been reluctant to share this recipe for chicken piccata as it was something I remember my mom making and really it’s not an exact measuring type of a recipe for me so keep that in mind when you make it.  Also when using fresh lemons in cooking, remember you never know how tart the lemon is or juicy so you may have to modify the quantity for that as well.

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Irish Soda Bread…perfect for Saint (St.) Patrick’s Day

March 12, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

I’m reposting this one as it’s a great recipe for St. Patricks Day…

Saint (St.) Patrick’s Day was never a big holiday in my Italian household but it was always a great day for me because of my mom.  My mom had always made St. Patrick’s Day special for me because I was her only child without an Italian name.  To make me feel special, my mom would always buy me a little something or do something special on St. Patrick’s day to make up for it so while it was not about the food and what was being made it was about how she made me feel important.

I don’t tend to do a lot of Irish cooking, although I can cook just about anything, I just don’t tend to gravitate to Irish food, even for the holiday.  I decided that I would revisit an old recipe I had for Irish soda bread and so I found this on from my collection.

I’m unsure of more traditional recipes or if this is the traditional recipe but I will tell you that I love this recipe, maybe it’s the orange zest which brings in the Italian feeling or the currants that make it a little sweet but not overly sweet, or maybe it’s just such a simple recipe that I love that I can whip it up and serve it to impress my friends…nonetheless, it’s a great recipe to try at least once in your life as it’s a no fail recipe for bread that doesn’t use yeast.

I didn’t have buttermilk at home so I made my own, you have to use 1% or higher for your milk and for every cup you add 1 tablespoon lemon or distilled vinegar, I did almost 2 tablespoons, here is my before

Irish Soda - Milk

then after 5 minutes with the vinegar it looks like this, kind of gross but it works

Irish Soda - buttermilk

you add your flour, sugar and baking soda in a bowl

Irish Soda - flour

cut up your butter into cubes

Irish Soda - butter

add it to your flour

Irish Soda - flour butter

mix until you have small bits and pieces of the buter

Irish Soda - mixed flour

to your milk add the orange zest and lightly beaten egg

Irish Soda - milk mixed

add your milk to your flour and mix well

Irish Soda - mixed

add your currants and mix well

Irish Soda - with currants

dump your mixture onto a floured counter, here is the before

Irish Soda - on counter

knead for about 3 minutes…here is your after

Irish Soda - kneaded

place on a prepared baking sheet with parchment paper and cut a “cross” with a knife

Irish Soda - cut on top

baked for 45-55 minutes or until done

Irish Soda - baked

Let it cool slightly before cutting

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I couldn’t wait to cut into this bread and I’m glad I couldn’t it was amazing!  I’d say give it a try as it’s not a difficult recipe and it’s always impressive to make your own bread.  I would not substitute the currants or orange zest.

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Irish Soda Bread perfect for Saint (St.) Patrick’s Day

Ingredients

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch dice
  • 1 3/4 cups cold buttermilk, shaken
  • 1 extra-large egg, lightly beaten
  • 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
  • 1 cup dried currants

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
  2. Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the butter and mix on low speed until the butter is mixed into the flour.
  3. With a fork, lightly beat the buttermilk, egg, and orange zest together in a measuring cup. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture. Add the currants and mix into the dough. It will be very wet.
  4. Dump the dough onto a well-floured board and knead it a few times into a round loaf. Place the loaf on the prepared sheet pan and lightly cut an X into the top of the bread with a serrated knife. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. When you tap the loaf, it will have a hollow sound.
  5. Cool on a baking rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Death By Chocolate Cake

December 30, 2014 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum 1 Comment

It’s the holidays and when better to splurge on eating chocolate, cakes and cookies???  That’s what New Years resolutions are all about, losing the weight from the holiday festivities.  I was going to a Christmas Day party and was asked to bring a dessert, I thought I’d be original and make a chocolate cake thinking chocolate would be original.  I was wrong, chocolate was the main ingredient for all the desserts, there were chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate cakes, brownies and cookies, silly me.

Nonetheless, I tried this recipe and I have to say it was very good and super easy to make.  The “death by chocolate” comes from 3 different types of chocolate, chocolate cake mix, chocolate pudding and chocolate chips, does it get any better than that?  The recipe I found was on food.com and I did modify the recipe by the espresso powder, if you do not have expresso powder you can use instant coffee or you can just omit the coffee altogether, the coffee brings out the flavor of the chocolate, I even use it in my Red Velvet Cake (secret ingredient :))

You basically put your eggs, water, oil and sour cream in a bowl

Eggs and Sour Cream

then I creamed them until they were light in color

Whipped

I added the cake mixes

mixes for cake

mixed really good and added my chocolate chips (I folded the chocolate chips in)

Chocolate Chips

I thought it would be nice in a bundt pan

Chocolate

I put it in the oven and baked it for about 48 minutes and here it is…YUMMY!

Death by Chocolate

Do not follow the cake package instructions for this recipe as this is a modified recipe.  I filled my centers with chocolate wafer cookies but for valentines, you can fill them with chocolate kisses.  I’m not a huge bundt cake person but I liked how it looked…I will note changes to my next bundt cake recipe a I did learn a few things.

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Death By Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

  • 4 large Eggs
  • 3/4 cup Sour Cream
  • 1/2 cup Oil
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • 1 small package Instant Chocolate Pudding
  • 1 package Chocolate Cake Mix
  • 1 cup Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
  • 1/2 teaspoon Espresso Powder or Instant Coffee (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl add you eggs, sour cream, oil and water, beat on medium until mixture is light and fluffy.
  3. Add your cake mix, pudding mix and espresso powder (optional). Beat on medium for 2-3 minutes are until well mixed.
  4. Add your chocolate chips and fold them in into the mix.
  5. Pour the mixture into a greased bundt pan and 45-50 minutes. Enjoy!
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