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Chocolate-Cherry Brownies (for Grown Ups!)
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Chocolate-Cherry Brownies (for Grown Ups!)

PollyJuly 24, 2025July 24, 2025

Soak dried cherries in port, then add them to the batter of these brownies for a tasty departure from the every-day, kid-favorite brownie! I love the unexpected flavor zing from the dried cherries 🙂 This is a cake-like brownie, usually…

Strawberry Cheesecake Dip
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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,…

Street Corn Salad/Elote
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Street Corn Salad/Elote

PollyJuly 20, 2025August 28, 2025

I’m sure you’ve seen, or at least heard of, the Mexican street vendors—the ones selling hot corn-on-the-cob on a stick? It’s quickly rubbed with mayo, then rolled in Cotija cheese, sprinkled with lime juice, and topped with a bit of…

Mom’s Meatball Subs
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Mom’s Meatball Subs

PollyJuly 20, 2025July 21, 2025

By Hannah Lineberry, from her cookbook, The Good ‘Wich. Hannah remembers me making these for team snacks after Water Polo tournaments! 🙂 You’ve had to have lived with three Water Polo players who swam on the off season to really…

Pavlova
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Pavlova

PollyJuly 3, 2025August 6, 2025

In England, Australia, New Zealand and my house, Pavlova is a very popular dessert.  I am not sure why it’s not only not popular in the US but it’s not even well known!  Pavlova is a quick, light, impressive, and utterly…

Fresh Strawberry Pie
Pies & TartsSummerSweetsVegetarian

Fresh Strawberry Pie

PollyJune 30, 2025August 28, 2025

This is a summertime staple around here, and has been for years. A coworker gave me this recipe back in the 1990s, I believe. A decade or so later, I passed the recipe on to a young, emerging cook, and…

Coconut Mango Cheesecake
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Coconut Mango Cheesecake

PollyJune 29, 2025August 28, 2025

This is one of my favorite cheesecakes! It’s showy and special and tastes wonderful. The method for this cheesecake is different from my usual method, but it works like a dream. I’ve never had this cheesecake crack. The only tricky…

Spinach Dip
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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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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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