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Fresh Tomato Tart
AppetizersMeatlessPizza and TartsSummer

Fresh Tomato Tart

PollyAugust 2, 2025September 2, 2025

My neighbors and Facebook friends have been asking for recipes to use up their tomatoes.  I have two good ones.  The Fresh Tomato Lasagna that I posted earlier this week, and this Fresh Tomato Tart were a staple at our…

Tropical Fruit Salsa  with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips
AppetizersFruitsSaladsSummerSweets

Tropical Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

PollyApril 25, 2025August 28, 2025

The biggest issue with this dish is when to eat it! Is it a dessert? Appetizer? Snack? All three work, but I think the best is a quiet summer afternoon on the porch with a chilled beverage of choice. Tropical…

Caprese Garlic Bread
AppetizersMeatlessPizza and TartsSandwichesSummer

Caprese Garlic Bread

PollySeptember 11, 2024August 28, 2025

It’s just garlic bread, folks, but it’s garlic bread with an upgrade! There are tomatoes, mozzarella and basil! After running across this recipe at Two Peas and their Pod,  I decided I needed to make it—now! I quickly sent texts to a few friends…

Raspberry-Ricotta Snack Cake
Breakfast & BrunchCakes & CupcakesFruitsSummerSweets

Raspberry-Ricotta Snack Cake

PollyJune 25, 2019August 28, 2025

Delicious, light and moist, unassuming and satisfying. It’s good for breakfast, it’s good for a light dessert, and it’s good for an afternoon tea or snack. It’s good for company, it’s good for a family treat, and it’s good for…

Italian Wedding Soup
Main DishPastaRed MeatSoupsWinter

Italian Wedding Soup

PollyFebruary 24, 2017August 28, 2025

Italian Wedding Soup is easy to make, and is good as soon as it’s made—no need to sit overnight to intensify the flavors! Not being Italian, I can’t claim this is just like my Nonna made, nor can I claim…

Peach Iced Tea
DrinksGluten FreeNon-Alcoholic DrinksSeasonalSummerVegetarian

Peach Iced Tea

PollyJune 8, 2013August 28, 2025

This tea, as is, is not too sweet, and definitely has a pronounced peach flavor; it’s like Snapple Peach Iced Tea, only better!  Make the big-batch peach base to keep in the freezer and you’ll be able to whip up…

Quesadilla Pie
AppetizersBreakfast & BrunchFallMain DishMeatlessPoultryRed MeatSandwiches

Quesadilla Pie

PollyOctober 8, 2011August 28, 2025

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,…

Sparkling Watermelon Lemonade
DrinksFruitsGluten FreeNon-Alcoholic DrinksSeasonalSummerVegetarian

Sparkling Watermelon Lemonade

PollySeptember 4, 2011August 28, 2025

Last family BBQ of the season?  I wish I had posted this recipe as a season opener so that we could have had enjoyed this drink throughout the summer, but at least it is posted in time for the last…

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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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