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Easy Banana Cake

January 27, 2026

Roasted Cherry Tomato and Red Pepper Soup – easy vegan

January 20, 2026

Creamy Carrot Ginger Orange Soup

January 13, 2026

The Best Panettone Bread Pudding with Chocolate and Orange Marmalade

January 6, 2026

Canelés de Bordeaux

December 30, 2025

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December 23, 2025
  • salads and vegetables

    quinoa salad – fuel for hours

    by Michelle January 24, 2013
    by Michelle January 24, 2013

    All my life, I’ve been ‘that skinny @#*XX’ that never gained weight. I could eat like a horse, which I did with…

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    brown sugar peanut butter cookies

    by Michelle January 22, 2013
    by Michelle January 22, 2013

    I’m home. Seven lovely days with my daughter and her fiance spent doing ordinary things. There’s always that pressure to try and…

  • salads and vegetables

    sweet potato fries a la Provence

    by Michelle January 18, 2013
    by Michelle January 18, 2013

    Meg’s at work which leaves me to putter the day away. While I was cleaning up some of my archived draft posts, I…

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    homemade fennel sausage carbonara and a bunch of other stuff

    by Michelle January 16, 2013
    by Michelle January 16, 2013

    Trying to squeeze in all of the ordinary things that Meggie and I would do if she lived next door to me…

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    Yorkshire Pudding

    by Michelle January 13, 2013
    by Michelle January 13, 2013

    I am standing in my daughter, Meaghan’s, kitchen lusting after her robust cook book collection. Me: How many cookbooks do you have?…

  • cookies and bars

    lemon squares

    by Michelle January 10, 2013
    by Michelle January 10, 2013

    When I was a little girl, my grandmother Ekstrom made lemon squares for “club”. Her club consisted of a small group of…

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    doughboys and do-overs

    by Michelle January 8, 2013
    by Michelle January 8, 2013

    I love beginning. I love the letter A, monday, the number one, a new moon, the first slice off a loaf of…

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    butter tarts

    by Michelle January 6, 2013
    by Michelle January 6, 2013

    My mom makes these butter tarts, for her family, once a year. It takes us that long to recover. Imagine a perfectly…

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    vegetarian lasagne

    by Michelle January 4, 2013
    by Michelle January 4, 2013

    If you’re anything like me, after a week of indulging in large stuffed birds, racks of meat and buckets of seafood your…

  • family/life/love

    my best for 2012

    by Michelle January 1, 2013
    by Michelle January 1, 2013

    January – the meatloaf that knocked my socks off! February –  the squares that hooked Ralph. over the top cinnamon buns March –  Irish soda…

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Hey there, welcome to Bite by Michelle, the place where I celebrate food, love and life. My name is Michelle Hooton. I’m a self trained chef, photographer and writer all of which happened because of this blog. I’ve been cooking for 50 years. It’s crazy to say that out loud but true. Somewhere in the thousands of recipes I’ve tested and food that I’ve made, I realized, there is always something that sets a recipe apart from all the others. A particular ingredient or a secret technique that takes an ordinary dish to extraordinary - good food to great food. This is where I share secrets to great food and stories about life. Glad you found me.

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