By KATHIE SMITH, Toledo Blade

Thanksgiving soups: Warm the holiday week with great recipes

The bounty of Thanksgiving soups keeps growing. There's the pre-holiday soup, such as oyster stew; the Thanksgiving Day favorites for anyone who wants to serve a soup course, and then there's the post-feast tureen of soup made with leftover turkey or stock.

Oyster stew is a seasonal favorite.

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All about biscuits

Even though biscuits are among my favorite foods, I rarely order them in a restaurant.

Instead, I make them myself.

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Poached pear baked on puff pastry a perfect Valentine

Poire de Vin a la Normandy is a wonderful Valentine's Day dessert.
For those who don't speak French, it's simply a beautiful poached pear cooked in wine (port wine, in this case), which is then baked on puff pastry.

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Keep cooking simple for this Super Bowl-worthy finger food

Serving chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday is a natural, whether you cheer for the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Arizona Cardinals this weekend.
Nothing could be better than a menu of chicken wings, deviled eggs, tortilla chips with avocado dip, casseroles of macaroni and cheese, and baked beans. For dessert, serve homemade brownies.

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Slow economy favors simple cooking

Food trends will likely take a decided turn from edgy, pricey choices. Because of the slow economy, whether dining out or cooking in, consumers will be leaning toward the comfortable, the safe, the less expensive and the local. High-end selections will be intentional and specific.
Comfort food will be evident on restaurant menus as much as in home cooking.

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Dishing up curry for the kitchen

You don't have to leave home to discover the world of curry. Because of a growing interest in these foods, the market has produced more and more cookbooks are that are eager to show home cooks how to streamline ethnic recipes and adapt them to the American plate.
The key is to start with the basic spices and ingredients.

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Bring new flavors to holiday table

Holiday entrees range from such traditional favorites as turkey with gravy; glazed hams; succulent roast duck and the Christmas goose, and the classic rib-eye, rib and tenderloin beef roasts. They all taste great.
And yet, some cooks want a little something extra.

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Cookie art: Let ingredients, shape, color inspire your baking

Christmas cookies are artistic creations. They are prettier, tastier and more inviting for your family and guests than cookies at any other time of the year.

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Complement your holiday table with panettone and limoncello

This holiday season, add the Italian sweet bread, panettone, and the Italian lemon liqueur, limoncello, to your table. Not only do they complement one another, there's an assortment of recipes that combine both products or use one or the other for a new twist on flavorful dining.

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Sizing up turkey: Decide on fresh or frozen; size; cooking technique

Sizing up your Thanksgiving turkey involves so many decisions, from fresh or frozen to the size and the cooking technique.It all begins with how many people will be having dinner around your holiday table. If it's a big bird that you want, for example, Butterball recommends 1-1/2 pounds of turkey per person for generous servings and leftovers.

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