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Need a quick and elegant appetizer? Want to showcase some nice cheese? 

This Savory Blue Cheese Cheesecake is your recipe!

This recipe is open to a lot of variation, too—chopped chiles, red peppers, caramelized onions and on and on. For variation, you could sub in goat cheese for all or part of the blue cheese.  You can serve this with crackers or thin slices of an artisanal bread, although the crunchy Panko crust can carry the appetizer dish by itself. This would be wonderful with a glass of rose and some beautiful sliced Bosc pears. 

Don’t let this cheesecake’s small size fool you. This is one very rich dessert. Your guests will only need a small slice to unleash the cheesecake’s wonderful flavors. 

This recipe is adapted from one that appeared here. The original recipe featured Mirassou Wines and appeared on wonderful The Hungry  Couple NYC site. 

Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. 

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I’m not naming names, but one of my very good friends has a secret stash of boxed macaroni and cheese.

Not judging, either.

I know we all have our comfort foods and national events in recent weeks have certainly been excuse enough to tap into those hidden treasures.

For me, it’s candy corn, refried beans and Merlot (the current  Sideways movie diss–Sideways  ) of Merlot notwithstanding). I don’t eat them all together, although, now that it think of it, that could work. 

Here, I’m speaking to you MM, is a great easy take on macaroni and cheese. There is no troublesome white sauce to make–just shredded cheese and a few other simple ingredients.

It is delicious, too.

This recipe is based upon  Danni Rose’s recipe from her cookbook Danni’s Juke Joint Comfort Food. The recipe appears on  The Splendid Table site.    Here is the link: Ole Skool Mac ‘n’ Cheese.

Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. I wanted a little less spiced macaroni and cheese in my take on this recipe, so I omitted the Juke Shack spice mix in the original recipe.