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Norman Mathews is a composer, author, playwright, and gastronome
Last Posted Recipe: Sep 9, 2020

Sfincione alla Nonna
This Sicilian pizza-style bread is an easy-to-make savory treat for luncheons or as a festive bread accompanying dinner.
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Sour Cream, Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
This extra moist coffee cake is redolent of chocolate, cinnamon, and walnuts, a divine mixture for dessert or breakfast.
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Codfish Cakes
These codfish cakes are a delicious alternative to expensive crab cakes. They can be made ahead and refrigerated or frozen.
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Midnight Cake with Salted-Caramel Icing
This deep, rich chocolate cake is easy and quick to make and an excellent keeper.
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Sicilian Chocolate Spice Cookies
These Sicilian holiday cookies are redolent of chocolate, orange, and liquer.
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Creamy Stuffed Potatoes With Broccolini
This creamy stuffed potatoes are a perfect vegetarian luncheon dish or a great accompaniment for plain grilled meats.
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Chocolate Pecan Pie
A great change of pace for your Thanksgiving feast. It'll please your chocolate-lover guests.
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Corn Pudding
This corn pudding recipe is the easy-to-make comfort food for the end of summer. It will delight your guests.
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Buttermilk Corn Bread
A moist and tender corn bread that's easy to make and can accompany countless dishes.
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Pennsylvania-Dutch Chicken Corn Soup
Fresh corn is essential for this Pennsylvania-Dutch comfort-food recipe.
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Linguine With Melon and Prosciutto
This unusual but delicious pasta is a snap to make. It's combination of sweet and salty hits the spot at summer's end.
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Buttermilk Raspberry-Chocolate Shortcakes
It's August. Raspberries are at their height. This recipe for easy-to-make chocolate shortcakes puts them to great use.
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Vacherin Tropical
Vacherin Tropical is the ideal summer dessert, with meringue and melange of fruits.
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Crispy Fried Chicken
This crispy fried chicken is succulent and flavorful. It's perfect for a summer dinner or picnic.
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Brasciola alla Spera
These stuffed meat rolls cooked in tomato sauce are among the tastiest dishes in Italian cuisine.
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Roasted-Garlic, Herbed Potato Croquettes
These savory and delicious roasted-garlic, herbed potato croquettes are the perfect accompaniment for roasted meats.
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Italian Rum Cake Leggera
This beautifully light Italian Rum Cake will please your palate and delight your guests
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Buttermilk Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
This pineapple upside-down cake is special because it uses a first-rate buttermilk cake and poached fresh pineapple.
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Pasta With Lentil Sauce
Pasta with lentils is an easy-to-make, inexpensive, and very nutritious dish that's perfect for vegetarians.
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Deep-Chocolate Brownies
These deep-chocolate brownies are rich, moist, easy-to-make, and with a scoop of fine ice cream make a satisfying dessert
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Cabbage Frittata
This easy-to-make cabbage frittata is a perfect vegetarian, light-luncheon dish.
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Gnocchi With Shrimp and Zucchini
These light-as-air gnocchi are perfectly accompanied by shrimp and zucchini in a mornay sauce.
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Sicilian Meatball Soup
Sicilian Meatball Soup is the perfect Italian comfort food for cold winter nights. The soup serves as a whole meal in itself.
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Cuddurune- Sicilian Fried Breads
Cuddurune or Sicilian fried breads may be either sweet or savory. They make an easy lunch dish or a pre-dinner snack
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Cuccidati Cookies
This Sicilian Christmas cookies are filled with figs, raisins, walnuts, tangerine peels, and honey. They make a delicious holiday treat.
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Swedish Nut Bread
The slightly sweet Swedish Nut Bread goes perfectly with cream cheese and sliced, stuffed olives.
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