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I am really not a carrot cake fan. Not at all. It's quite possible that I hold a childish resentment against it for dressing up a vegetable as dessert (I tend to look at zucchini bread with the same jaundiced eye, truth be told), but more than that, I Read More...
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When it's pouring raining, grim and blustery, cold and dark, and frankly dreadful outside, my idea of the perfect day is one where I'm home, warm and happy. The windows are all steamed up, I put on some good music, and I start baking. And cooking. In Read More...
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Today is, as I have been informed, Halloween. Well, okay then. Boo. Life can be rather ghoulish-- especially now what with Presidential elections, hunger, global warming, terrorism, people who think that inserting discriminatory amendments into the California Read More...
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It isn’t right to torment your husband.
I know this, and yet, when it comes to Banana & Vanilla Wafer Pudding (’nilla wafer puddin’ for short), I can’t help myself. It’s just so good.
Yes, my husband has had months of Read More...
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October is the official start of pumpkin bread season in our house. While other families wait for the December holidays to kick into gear before making this quick bread, our patience is limited. As soon as the pumpkins start appearing on porches for Halloween, Read More...
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One of the best things about having an apple tree is being able to go in my own backyard to pick apples to make a cake. I have quite a weakness for apple cake, especially when the apples are crisp and sweet. So, in honor of my tree and the many apples Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Recipes , Slashfood Ate , Thanksgiving When I think back on my childhood and I recall fall desserts, sweet potato pie comes to mind. Every Thanksgiving, I remember looking forward to my aunt's luscious delicious cinnamon-flavored Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Recipes , Magazines , Frying "Fear of both fried food and the act of frying means that doughnuts are strictly outsourced," writes Kelly Alexander in the New York Times Magazine . But it wasn't always so. For centuries doughnuts Read More...
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Having just recently returned from the UK, I am currently obsessed with a dessert that is considered, by many of my British friends and family, "nursery food." I am speaking of bread and butter pudding. At it’s best, bread and butter pudding is both crispy Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Recipes , Fruit , Baking , Southern States , Fall Yesterday I wrote about muscadine grapes , which include a coppery green variety known as the scuppernong. Well they've been on my mind all week. On Tuesday, I stood in a friend's Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Vegetables , Recipes , Thanksgiving , Fall , Foodie Flicks As we head into October, the color palette on grocery store shelves is changing. The foodie world is getting increasingly orange and fragrant as pumpkin season hits and Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Recipes , Baking , Celebrations As the resident cake baker in my circle of friends, I'm always trying to find something new and funky to make. I've been in a groove of no-cook fondant and marzipan figures, but this summer I got Read More...
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I've had this cake on my mind for some time. It has been years since I've eaten one-- not since childhood. I remembered it as being sticky and sweet, delicious and remarkably easy to prepare-- that is, I do not remember anyone ever slaving over the making Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Recipes , Comfort Food , Fall To continue with my cupcake boosterism , here's a link to Martha Stewart's new gallery of fall cupcakes . I'm not sure they're the "reclaimed" "elevated" cupcakes so prevalent in upscale bakeries these Read More...
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"Figs?" she asked, "What about putting a little pomegranate molasses in them?" She took me into the kitchen, and poured two slow-moving drops of the stuff onto the end of a fork and put it in my mouth. It was a flavor new to me-- sweet, sour, full of Read More...
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