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Do you love nuts? This caramel nut tart recipe combines walnuts, pecans, and almonds, in a caramel filling, served in a buttery crust. Here is a delicious autumn nut tart that you can make with practically any mixture of nuts. Just make sure you get the freshest nuts possible – from your local farmers market, or from the bins at stores with high turnover like Whole Foods. We use nuts frozen from last year’s harvest. Nuts will get rancid, so definitely check for that before using. Freeze any nuts left over. The recipe is from a recipe in Bon Appétit magazine with a few minor changes. The Bon Appétit recipe calls for the drizzling of melted white chocolate on top of the tart for decorative effect. If you want to do this, just melt a ounce of white chocolate over a double boiler and use a fork to drizzle swirls on top of the tart. ⇆ I don’t think this tart needs any more sweetness, so we skipped that step. But it is excellent with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Caramel Nut Tart Recip

Delicious ginger chicken! Chicken strips, marinated in coriander and ginger, stir-fried with scallions and ginger, served mixed with mango chutney and topped with toasted almonds. My friend Steve-Anna sent me this wonderful recipe for ginger chicken and claimed that it was one of her all time favorites. My father doesn’t eat ginger if he can avoid it, so when I made it I just warned dad ahead of time that he might have to settle for yesterday’s leftovers if he couldn’t bring himself to touch it. Well, everyone loved it! Even dad. ⇆ Strips of boneless, skinless chicken breasts are briefly marinated in ground coriander, ground ginger, vinegar and oil, then they are stir-fried with scallions and julienned ginger. They are mixed with a little mango chutney and sprinkled with toasted almonds before serving. The whole dish can be made in half an hour, especially if you do a lot of the prep while the chicken is marinating. Ginger Chicken with Almonds Recipe Prep time:   15 minutes Cook time:

Maple-Glazed Chicken with Caramelized Onions and Pears! A one-skillet dinner you can serve right from the pan. A little mustard in the glaze gives the chicken some zing. In New England, where I live, there are so many grand maple trees that the syrup goes into everything. You often find it in pots of baked beans instead of molasses, as well as in all kinds of cakes, pies, and other sweet desserts. Maple syrup also makes its way into simple weeknight dishes like this skillet chicken recipe, where it turns into a glaze. Start by searing the chicken by itself, then brown some onions until they start to turn golden. Add a few cut pears to the skillet so they brown, too. Spread the seared chicken breasts with a maple-mustard glaze, then set them on top of the onions and pears. The juices from the chicken baste the fruit and onions as it cooks, making them especially succulent, while the glaze turns the chicken a beautiful golden color. The onions also finish caramelizing in the oven. ⇆ This

Chocolate Truffles are EASY to make! Your sweetheart will LOVE these homemade truffles. With chocolate and cream, assorted flavors, and coated with either cocoa or chopped nuts. Perfect for Valentine's Day! Please welcome guest author  Garrett McCord  who is helping us get ready for  Valentine’s Day   with these easy-to-make chocolate truffles. ~Elise Want to show me romance and sweep me off my feet? Then cook for me. Flowers are a sweet gesture, but I don’t have a vase so they end up sitting on my table in an Indiana Jones Big Gulp cup and then my cats end up eating them anyway. Gifts and tokens are sweet and while I may say thank you out loud in my mind I’m saying, “Great, now I have more crud in my house and no place to put it!” No, if you want to make me swoon, then cook for me. If you don’t know how to cook, make me chocolate truffles. ⇆ Truffles are the simplest of candy to make; cream, chocolate, and time is all it takes to create something blissfully elegant, decadent, and