On Toast – In the Kitchen with Polly

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Blueberry Heaven

PollyJuly 31, 2013July 19, 2025

Do you ever go into a bakery? Of COURSE you do! Do you ever buy a pastry that looks delicious, but then are seriously disappointed in the taste…? And then, to top it off, are you overwhelmed price you just…

Fall Fruits Pies & Tarts Sweets

Mini Apple Pies

PollyNovember 27, 2012August 28, 2025

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…

Breakfast & Brunch Jams, Curds & Marmalades Sauces, Dips & Spreads

Microwave Marmalade

PollyFebruary 25, 2010August 8, 2025

You can make marmalade for breakfast! Honest, you can! It’s amazing! I have made orange, lemon and lime marmalade with this recipe—it’s so QUICK! I was very impressed 🙂 I have had better marmalades (hrmm, have I, really?), but they…

Gluten Free Jams, Curds & Marmalades Sauces, Dips & Spreads Sweets

Microwave Lemon Curd

PollyFebruary 21, 2010August 10, 2025

Lemon Curd [lemen kerd] n. 1 a wonderful treat cursed with an unfortunate name. 2 a custard made with lemon juice, butter, sugar, and eggs and used as a spread or filling. She spread the tasty lemon curd on her…

Appetizers Red Meat

Meatballs on Toast

PollyFebruary 2, 2010August 18, 2025

Just what you need for the big Super Bowl party at the neighbors’ house! A yummy, quick and easy appetizer to take with you 🙂 You’ll need a pound of ground beef, a bit of onion (any kind), soy sauce,…

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.

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