2012 – In the Kitchen with Polly

Mini Apple Pies

PollyNovember 27, 2012April 26, 2026

I hear mini pies are all the rage now. Bye-bye cake pops and chocolate with bacon; hellooooooo mini pies! Here’s a great recipe with which to start. Having made this recipe a few times, I now know a few things…

Fall Main Dish Red Meat Soups

Ham Bone Bean Soup

PollyOctober 5, 2012February 5, 2026

Photo by Home & Plate I love Honey Baked ham. Love it, love it, love it! But have you heard the definition of eternity? Two people and a ham! Thank goodness I have a panini press for grilled ham and Swiss sandwiches. Thank goodness…

Breakfast & Brunch Fall Fruits

Banana Pancakes with Caramel Syrup

PollySeptember 1, 2012August 28, 2025

Hmpfff. I just got through looking at the two hundred and seventeen pictures of a recent bride’s Hawaiian honeymoon. As one of her friends commented, “The envy hurts“! I went to Hawaii once. I did. It was with my kids’…

Breakfast & Brunch

Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes with Spiced Maple Syrup

PollyJune 8, 2012July 23, 2025

Love blueberries! Love cornmeal! So when I saw this recipe, having bought blueberries just yesterday and forgetting why, I jumped up from my chair (well…, not exactly jumped) to make a special, impromptu breakfast! I saw this recipe on Pinterest…

Main Dish Pasta Red Meat

Four Cheese Spinach Manicotti

PollyMarch 20, 2012July 24, 2025

I must admit, I make a pretty mean manicotti. I’d forgotten how good it was until I made some on the spur-of-the-moment this week. My manicotti is probably not very authentic, seeing as I have no genuine Italian reference point…

Asst Holidays & Events Breakfast & Brunch Eggs Main Dish Seafood Spring

Salmon-Spinach Breakfast Roll-up

PollyMarch 18, 2012August 28, 2025

My friend Karin made this for our Cookbook Club’s Snow Holiday. I ate it the morning she made it, and had it again for the following three mornings…loved it! She learned to make this from her cousin in Germany; she’d…

About Me

It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

Enjoy!