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Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes with Spiced Maple Syrup
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…

Four Cheese Spinach Manicotti
Main DishPastaRed 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…

Quesadilla Pie
AppetizersBreakfast & BrunchFallMain DishMeatlessPoultryRed MeatSandwiches

Quesadilla Pie

PollyOctober 8, 2011March 7, 2026

I definitely need a better picture. Looking for something new for lunch? I have the perfect thing!  This lunch has to be baked, so it’s a great fall-winter recipe. I found it at Simply Recipes awhile back—picture cred to Simply Recipes,…

Fried Chicken
Main DishPoultry

Fried Chicken

PollyAugust 2, 2011July 23, 2025

I know this chicken leg has a waffle under it, but this recipe just focuses on the actual fried chicken. Chicken n’ waffles will come later 🙂 Frying chicken wasn’t just another hedonistic pursuit, you know. I had a good reason—a…

Traditional Arabic Hummus
AppetizersSauces, Dips & Spreads

Traditional Arabic Hummus

PollyJuly 22, 2011July 24, 2025

Traditional Arabic hummus—how do I know its traditional? Because I learned how to make it from my Saudi and Kuwaiti students in 1981 and 1982. I watched how they made it, wrote everything down, and have followed the recipe ever since.  Well,…

Corn Dogs
AppetizersBreadsMain DishMeatlessPizza and TartsPoultrySandwichesSummer

Corn Dogs

PollyJuly 19, 2011August 28, 2025

I am sooooo bad. I KNOW I shouldn’t cook like this. I know it, I know it, I know it! But I did. And my little experiment turned out too wonderfully well 🙂 Who knew homemade corn dogs were so easy to make?! I…

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Cakes & CupcakesSweets

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting

PollyJune 17, 2011August 11, 2025

Who doesn’t like yellow cake with chocolate frosting?  It’s a classic!  This recipe and photo is from Cook’s Illustrated. The little editorial near the recipe on page 51 of the Spring 2011 edition of Cook’s said everything I want to…

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Popcorn
AppetizersSummerSweets

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Popcorn

PollyJune 14, 2011March 7, 2026

This recipe is almost the same recipe as Muddy Buddies, but using popcorn instead of Rice Chex!  It’s a cinch to pull together, and it’s melt-in-your mouth delicious 🙂  I mean, seriously addictive. I am pretty sure you have all…

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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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