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Coming from someone who has burned herself on the oven more times than I care to admit, I must confess a side opening wall oven would be a great investment. There is one major problem with this wish. I don't technically own my apartment so changing the oven would not exactly be my decision. If I did, however, I might very well opt for the side ...

I started writing a blog post back in June, just before my birthday, just before the Summer Solstice, but I never finished it. To be more accurate, I barely even started it. The draft has been sitting in my queue of pending posts, has been hanging as a three-quarters (in)complete introductory paragraph to nothing with a sentence at the end that ...

Filed under: Baking, Southern States, Celebrations, Holidays, Christmas, Winter, Festive Family Feasts Just a few days ago, I noted my love for highly specific food traditions, tied to holidays and celebrations -- hoppin' john on New Year's Day, king cake on Mardi Gras, mint juleps on Derby Day. So, it seemed foolhardy not to avail myself of a ...

Filed under: Baking Say hello to flatty and softy. Both come from the same batch of cookies, yet one is flat as all hell, and one is nicely shaped, and doesn't reveal the wonderful sea of butterscotch inside. I've made many cookies over the years. Some I've loved; some I've hated. Sometimes something goes wrong. But I've never had a batch pull ...

At Christmas time my family does not have a ''traditional'' meal. We tend to mix it up a bit. In the past, we have eaten paella, roast suckling pig, and we have had turkey as well. The ''traditional'' aspect of the holiday really lies on two activities or habits that we have not shooken off for the past ten years; we watch National Lampoon's ...

I hope my physical therapist is a not an Epi-aficionada, because I have a confession: I wanted to make her an Xmas token, but of course this Scrooge did not want to spend any more than necessary. I thought about peanut brittle, since my dad made it constantly when I was a kid, and we barely had a pot to boil sugar in. But this enticing recipe ...

Last night, my kids (who have elected to take the code names 2 Much Bacon and Cocoa Bean 72 for the duration of the week, don't ask me why...) and I baked some holiday cookies from my cookbook Real Food for Healthy Kids. (I might add the words award-winning, as we just found out it won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in the category of Best ...

Filed under: Whisky, Dessert, Chocolate, Recipes, Pork, Baking, Comfort Food, Guilty Pleasures Sure, many folks go to an Alice B. Toklas place when creative brownie making is mentioned, but for a goody two-shoes like me (with a cop pal as my afternoon's company to boot!), there's much swoony satisfaction in a recipe that highlights some of my ...

Filed under: Dessert, Midwest Cities, Recipes, Pork, Baking, Food Oddities, America, Retro cookery, Sugar, North America, Meat, Guilty Pleasures Scanned from Be Milwaukee's Guest, Recipes Collected and Tested by the Junior League of Milwaukee - 1959 I could scarcely be crankier at myself for muffing the opportunity to present this comb-bound ...

This food crime deserves a whole post of its own. A New Jersey ShopRite refused to decorate a cake for a Holland, Penna., three-year-old's birthday because it didn't like the look of the kid's name. What was the toddler's name? Adolf Hitler Campbell.