Quick Apple Galette

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The thing with fruit desserts?  Having fruit left over because most of the recipes call for medium apples, but my supermarket does not know the difference between size, they are all big.

So I got leftover.

I hate to throw food away.

Even fruit.

And trust me I been so tempted of late.  I’m pretty over anything that has to do with apples.

But, I cannot do it – yes, call me wimpy.

So, here I was thinking, what to do with all of this left over apples, that I did not use in the future mother in law birthday cake a couple of weeks back.

And as I was thinking there, I started to crave a cookie.

Stay with me, there is a relationship in here.

So, I look over at Tom and asked him to pass me the pack of Galleta Maria, [Marie biscuit] for me to munch on.  And as I was looking at the package the name “galleta”, which means biscuit in Spanish made me think of the French “galettes”

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Chicken Surprise

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I have been busy. Very, very busy. 

I have not used my stove, oven or any kitchen stuff in five days.

I miss cooking.

Instead I’m packing and unpacking.

Did I evern mention how much I love travel, but hate packing?

But, tonight I will be packing again, this time I take off to the seas.  For the next 4 days I will on this ship.

It will be me and the best friend, and usually we party it up when we get together - Some mayhem is sure to occur.

Along with large amount of eating, drinking and reading.

My kindle is going too.

In the meantime, I totally forgot that I had this and had not share it with you.

My bad.

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Sweet Kitchen Tips 14

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Ok we are going to talk turkey.  Because well, in 13 days most of us will be dealing with that bird in their kitchen, so I hunted down these handy tips and now I’m passing them on to you…

But first, did you know that the turkey was domesticated by the Aztecs? I did not, so for me it was an a ha! moment there - the stuff you can find when you go a-looking.

Now I have cooked 2 full turkeys in my lifetime, being Italian and raised in a South American country, we never celebrated Thanksgiving in my house, so cooking a whole turkey around these parts was pretty much not done, but when I did my first one, it was a disaster.  

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