All original material © Alice Domurat Dreger, 1996-2009.

Recipes

Those who know me know I love to cook and to eat. Few things make me happier than starting a big pot of soup, or lying in the tub reading a cookbook. Sheer bliss: a happy dinner party for my friends, preferably one that takes me two days of prep and involves a huge number of my beautiful Granada dishes. There’s a reason I spent 3 years designing my new kitchen! (See right.)

So here are some recipes that friends have asked me to post. There’s no rhyme or reason to this list--it’s just stuff I’ve made for friends (sometimes sick friends) who later asked for me the recipes. (I make a lot of stuff from cookbooks, too, but these are the recipes for which I can’t just point you to a cookbook.)

One note: I’m allergic to milk proteins, so all the following recipes are dairy-free. In the rare recipe where I use margarine, you can substitute butter. Same deal with soy milk and cow milk. Generally I avoid doing non-dairy substitutions by simply avoiding dishes that call for dairy, because non-dairy substitutes don’t taste as good as dairy. And I like food that tastes great.


  1. Platskis (Polish crêpes)

  2. Pink chicken salad

  3. Sousa salad dressing

  4. Norton’s roasted beets with lemon and dill

  5. Macaroons with three sauces (plus fondu option)

  6. My mother’s chicken soup

  7. Kluski as my mother taught me

  8. Fried kluski with onions and bacon

  9. Committee brownies

  10. Roger’s Meyer lemon souffle (dairy-free)

  11. Pork tenderloin

  12. Chicken á la Alice

  13. Three bean salad (vegan)

  14. Guinness (lamb) stew

  15. Red beans & rice

  16. Potato pancakes

  17. Ratatouille

  18. Roast lamb (on the grill)

  19. Number 77

  20. Tomatillo salsa