Recipes and Food
Too Many Tomatoes
Summer tomatoes…nothing like them. We anxiously wait all year for the real deal. Here in Connecticut, the best tomatoes start their glorious ripening in August. We can’t get enough of…
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With Love From The Farmhouse Project:A Valentine’s Cocktail For 2
I’m so excited to feature some of my favorite fellow bloggers this year! Please meet Shawn & Kris of TheFarmhouseProject.com. You may already know them as the Country House in…
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Step By Step Linzer Cookie Recipe for Valentine’s Day
As promised (and just in time for Valentine’s Day!), here is the latest WFSB, Better Connecticut segment where I walk co-hosts Kara and Scot through the easy steps to making…
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Linzer Tart Heart Cookies
I took my favorite Linzer Tart cookie recipe back to its classic beginnings as a beautiful European heart. Filled with strawberry preserves, and dusted generously with vanilla bean-infused confectioner’s sugar,…
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Harvest Roasted Butternut Squash Dip With Oven Baked Tortilla Crackers
Happy November! I shared this recipe last year, but I love it so much that I thought you wouldn’t mind if I shared it again! This dip and chips are…
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Homemade Mexican Street Corn
Yay! It’s corn season! Having previously seen images of this delicious dish, we first tried this corn at our favorite Mexican restaurant in NYC, Rosa Mexicano. The plate appeal is…
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Summery Grilled Chicken Salad
What to do with leftover grilled chicken? Make our savory Summery Grilled Chicken Salad! We know that there are just so many ways to make chicken salad. Quite often a…
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Finn’s Blueberry Lemonade
On this horribly hot and humid day, I thought it best to re-post this refreshing, thirst-quenching recipe for Finn’s Blueberry Lemonade. It’s very easy to whip up a batch or two…
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Summertime Blueberry Crisp
My new favorite summertime dessert? This Blueberry Crisp! With blueberries just coming into season, and summer being the prime time to enjoy fresh ice cream…this humble pairing is absolutely outrageous. It’s…
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Apple Roses for Mother’s Day
It’s the season for flowers in all shapes, sizes, and flavors! An absolutely beautiful, and delicious thing to serve for your Mother’s Day brunch or dessert, these Apple Roses are so…
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A Must Have Cookbook
Looking for a hearty dish for a cold snowy day? You’ve got to try Alex Guarnaschelli’s, Beef Brisket Soup With Quickie Parmigiano-Reggiano Dumplings. It’s kind of like if onion soup…
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Perfect Cheesey New Year’s Nibbles
This recipe never fails me. It’s quick, easy to make, and a crowd favorite..especially when served right out of the oven. They’re the perfect thing to nibble on while sipping…
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Create a French Apple Tart for the Holidays
French Apple Tart is hands down my favorite dessert. It’s so easy to make, delicious, and looks so rustically beautiful. So when Tracy Furey, the executive producer of WFSB’s Better…
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Roasted Butternut Squash & Garlic Dip (Tortilla Crackers Too!)
I’m slowly, but surely, closing up shop in my kitchen garden. My latest harvest? Butternut Squash. Other than whipping up a batch of our favorite Butternut Squash Soup, we decided…
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Tomato Love
Tomatoes have a special place in my heart, as well as my kitchen garden. As far back as I can remember, my family’s kitchen garden on Melville Avenue was always…
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Blackened Corn Garden Salsa
What does everyone have coming out of their ears in later August? Corn and tomatoes, of course! With that in mind, this recipe uses what’s at hand, while utilizing the…
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Bruschetta With Pesto (The Perfect Marriage)
Bruschetta. One of my favorite summertime nibbles. I call this delicious bite (or 2) bro-shet-tah (the English-Connecticut version!). In Italian, it’s pronounced bruce-key-tah, with the emphasis on key (I googled…
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Summertime Raspberry Vinaigrette
And the raspberries keep coming at Connecticut Country House! Our shrubs are so prolific this year that we’ve continued to try and widen our repertoire of recipes that use them.…
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Better Connecticut: Making Blueberry Lemonade
Blueberry season is something we always look forward to at Connecticut Country House. But, what can you do with some of your freshly picked blueberries? Kara Sundlun from WFSB’s Better…
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Super Simple Chimichurri Sauce
Grilling tonight? You’ve just got to try this amazing chimichurri recipe that came from Murph morphing many different online found recipes to concoct his own Connecticut Country House version. Did…
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Summer Anniversary Issue Is Here (Again!)
I started the Nora Murphy Country House emagazine for 1 simple reason…my “blog shoes” were too tight. I loved my little blog, Connecticut Country House, but in the state it…
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Friday’s Fridge Freestyle Frittata
Just like every household, at Connecticut Country House, by the end of the week we’re often faced with a fridge stocked with lidded containers of various dribs ‘n drabs. Murph,…
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Jack’s Cast Iron Skillet Chicken Pot Pie
My husband Murph’s brother, Jack – yes, that Jack, of the pickle recipe fame, recently sent us a picture of a divine looking chicken pot pie that he’d baked in…
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Traditional Irish Apple Cake & Serving Tea At WFSB
You think that a New York minute is fast? A fun filled, five minute segment on baking a simple Irish Apple Cake on WFSB’s Better Connecticut goes by in the…
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Crabby Patties
When faced with a hankering for crab cakes, my husband Murph stepped up to the plate and created this wonderful rendition. Based upon a Food Network recipe from the grande…
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