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Too Many Tomatoes? Roasted Tomato Sauce!
Gluten FreeMeatlessSauces, Dips & SpreadsSeasonalVegetarianVeggies

Too Many Tomatoes? Roasted Tomato Sauce!

PollyAugust 12, 2025August 28, 2025

Are you being overrun with homegrown summer tomatoes yet? Then you need to make this sauce! Freeze it, and you’ll have little portions of summer to use as needed in any tomato based dish! After defrosting, the sauce can used…

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Coconut Shrimp
AppetizersSauces, Dips & SpreadsSeafoodSide Dishes

Coconut Shrimp

PollyAugust 6, 2025August 6, 2025

Coconut Shrimp! Where this sudden obsession came from, I have no idea. I have no warm memories of Red Lobster and their sea captain’s rum enhanced Coconut Shrimp, much less any memories of seaside tiki bars, drinks with tiny umbrellas,…

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Grilled Mint Marinated Lamb with Pistachio Pesto
Gluten FreeGrillingMain DishRed MeatSauces, Dips & SpreadsSummer

Grilled Mint Marinated Lamb with Pistachio Pesto

PollyAugust 1, 2025September 16, 2025

Absolutely one of our favorite BBQ dishes! We serve the lamb with a grilled, herby flat bread or homemade pita, and a rice pilaf. There’s no Pistachio Pesto in the photo, unfortunately, but if there were you’d be amazed by…

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Strawberry Cheesecake Dip
FruitsGluten FreeSauces, Dips & SpreadsSeasonalSummerSweetsVegetarian

Strawberry Cheesecake Dip

PollyJuly 22, 2025August 28, 2025

Don’t have time to make a fancy cheesecake or strawberry shortcake for dessert? Make this instead. It’s easy and it’s delicious. I can’t believe I haven’t posted this previously, as I’ve been making this since I was in high school,…

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Brie on the Grill
AppetizersGluten FreeGrillingSauces, Dips & SpreadsSummer

Brie on the Grill

PollyJuly 21, 2025September 16, 2025

For years—decades—we have gone tent camping at a State beach in Santa Cruz. We usually stay a whole week and we love it, we have always loved it. Although we sleep in tents, we don’t exactly rough it. We have…

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Spinach Dip
AppetizersSauces, Dips & SpreadsVegetarian

Spinach Dip

PollyJune 24, 2025August 6, 2025

Spinach Dip was at every party in the 80s, and the recipe came from the back of the Knorr Vegetable Recipe Mix soup package. The recipe is no longer on the package, but is still featured on the Knorr website.…

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NOT a Boring Cheesecake
FruitsPies & TartsSauces, Dips & SpreadsSweetsVegetarian

NOT a Boring Cheesecake

PollyJuly 21, 2024August 6, 2025

My younger daughter is the Queen of Cheesecake around here. She loves her cheesecakes, and has amassed quite a collection of hits: Bourbon Peach Streusel Cheesecake; Boozy Nutty Pumpkin Cheesecake; Cappuccino Fudge Cheesecake; and S’mores Cheesecake! She calls this cheesecake—my…

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Chocolate Fondue
CrockpotGluten FreeSauces, Dips & SpreadsSeasonalSweetsVegetarian

Chocolate Fondue

PollyJanuary 31, 2021July 20, 2025

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! Valentine’s Day is only two weeks away, so here’s a fabulous dessert suggestion 🙂 Start collecting fondue pots, dippers, and toppers now so you don’t get stressed out at the last minute! I wish I knew how…

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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.

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