Author: The Cooking Lawyer

Dinner

Easy Italian Sausage and Peppers featuring Turkey-Sausage Meatballs in Homemade Sauce

Sweet Italian sausage has a distinctive, delicious flavor in large part due to the fennel seeds that are used. Given store-bought sausage is not very heart-healthy, I modified it by taking the same seasoning base and adding it to low-fat ground turkey meat (or you can use ground chicken). I made them into “meat balls”, […]

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Dessert

Not Your Average Peaches and Cream Pie

My six year-old niece slept over, and she asked for homemade pancakes for breakfast. Way too much batter later, I was left with a plateful of pancakes trying to figure out what to do with them. Then my aunt asked if I could make a peach pie with my freshly picked peaches. Voila! Leftover pancakes […]

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Appetizer, Dinner, Side Dish, Uncategorized

Sicilian Eggplant Caponata

This is a delicious vegetarian meal. You can serve it as the main course, serve it over pasta, or serve it as an appetizer as a brushetta-like topping for delicious, crusty Italian bread. I used Sicilian Eggplants, which are smaller, round eggplants that I find have a sweeter flavor than other eggplants. You can use […]

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Dessert

Fruit of the Forbidden Tree Cobbler

This is recipe 4 of 4 for my cooking demonstration hosted by the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Division. There’s still time to register. It’s free to any NJSBA member. https://tcms.njsba.com/PersonifyEbusiness/Default.aspx?TabID=1356&productId=62131131 This simple dessert is so easy, you can make it any night of the week. You can use any fruit that you […]

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