Recipe: Apple Coffee Cake

"Simply Recipes" has a recipe for an Apple Coffee Cake that should leave fans of breakfast "cakes" drooling. This may even top the famed Hobee's Blueberry Coffee Cake that can be had in my neck of the woods (Bay Area of California), though I'm not quite ready to make that claim. Enjoy!

Recipe: Lancashire hot-pot casserole

The Grand Rapids Press is carrying an article and recipe for
Lancashire hot-pot casserole, by Jaye Beeler. The dish's humble English origins make it all the more enticing:

One day, I decided to make celebrity chef Gary Rhodes' Lancashire hot-pot: lamb chops ladled with a heavenly gravy and topped with a layer of golden potatoes, essentially the equivalent of an Irish stew.

Shopping for ingredients, I foraged in the open-air, town-center market, vying with townies for farm-fresh vegetables. I visited the butcher, the baker and the bottle (wine and liquor) shop, lingering in each place and stuffing my backpack.

Then I hiked back to our tiny flat's kitchen -- a narrow, windowless room about the size of a broom closet. There, I pulled together the humble British dish.