Archive for the 'Kitchen Valkyrie' Category

Skinny Vegetable Beef Soup

This simple soup sounds fairly awful and looks a mess, but it’s quite good, nutritious, low fat, very quick to make, and easy to adapt to an even lighter vegetarian version. I thought the cilantro was a little overpowering, and of course, those with a genetic predisposition to detest cilantro will want to skip it all together. 1 pound very
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Fabulous Peanut Butter Pie

My mother made this fabulous peanut butter pie as one of several desserts for Christmas dinner.  We liked it so much that she made us another one for New Year. We’re not used to such a surfeit of sugar, and so retreated from rich sweets once the holidays had passed.  When we recover, we’ll definitely try this pie again. Here’s
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Fried Pecan Pies at Weaver’s

  I thought I’d be spending most of this week in London, Kentucky, on something of a warrior’s mission.  That turned out to be unnecessary, but during the one intense day I did spend there, I rushed into Weaver’s, which has been the café on London’s main street for over 70 years. I had about seven minutes to gather provisions
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