DAY Recipe

“Cooking is my passion, and my husband and some of our friends share it,” Kim Bartel, Youngstown, Ohio. “Our favorite weekend activity is making dinner together and pairing it with wine. When developing new recipes, I often refine and retest, but everyone loved this chicken dish the first time around. I serve it with rice, [...]

“Dinner at the Montauk Seafood Grill was an ideal way to cap off a day of skiing in Vail,” Julie Harris of Redwood City, California. “The salmon covered with an unusual breadcrumb coating is something I would like to make for a dinner party.”

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Using purchased mixed dried-fruit bits for the filling makes this comforting dessert a snap to prepare.

Makes 4 Servings.

INGREDIENTS
4large golden delicious apples (about 9 ounces each), unpeeled, cored
8tablespoons mixed driedfruit bits
1/2cup unsweetened apple juice
3tablespoons honey
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut [...]

Jim Fobel, cookbook author, says. “My mother never put sun-dried tomatoes in her mashed potatoes, as I do in this recipe. She made them ahead, then topped them with Parmesan and butter, and baked them. I’ve always loved those potatoes, and the layer of chopped sun-dried tomatoes I’ve added provides some terrific extra flavor.”

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Mary Risley, the director of Tante Marie’s Cooking School, says, “I come from a family of Connecticut Yankees, and when I was growing up, I spent every Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ eighteenth-century home, which was right across from a turkey farm. I’m not quite sure how, but something in that experience inspired this recipe. (Maybe [...]