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Filed under: Recipes, Baking These cookies are evidence that when it comes to food, I am one of the most suggestible individuals around. It was particularly cold out last night, dropping to below freezing for the first time this winter season. I came home from a dinner of cheap (but delicious) Indian food with a friend. Moments after I walked in ...

Filed under: Recipes, Baking, Eggs, Slashfood Ate, FranceAh, the creamy savory quiche that exudes a delicious aroma from the window of the French boulangerie and patîsserie! For some reason, I have not been able to find the same passion for quiche in NY that obviously exists in Paris. Food historians have traced the quiche back to the ...

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 mother's backyard around sundown, fending off mosquitoes as I plucked heavy handfuls of scuppernongs ...

Filed under: Recipes, Baking, Bread I have posted about brioche before, but I've found a new recipe for the most tender and delicious bread you'll ever eat. It is more than worth your time. The recipe is the one the 2005 US Bread Team used in the 2005 Bread World Cup (I got a copy because I'm a member of the Bread Bakers Guild of America). They ...

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 a challenge -- chocolate. Not being the biggest fan of chocolate cakes, I mostly stick to the many ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Comfort Food, FallTo 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 days, but they sure are cute. And Martha is almost always reliable for making even her gimmicky ...

Having grown up in a litter of seven, I think the perfect family size is two adults and a cat, but that's a problem when it comes to corn bread. It's hard to justify baking a whole pan when most of it will just go to waste. (My consort eats it grudgingly and I'm too fussy to eat it once it cools -- to me it's a vehicle for butter, and it never ...

I promised my brother that I would make horsey-type cupcakes...because he and his wife Mary own and love horses...that promise just happened to coincide with the birthday of one of Cupcake Queen's friend's daughter, who is six years old today! She also loves horses! These little ponies are called Pony in My Pocket Charm Fashions...because one ...

Filed under: Recipes, Baking, Comfort Food So that 36-hour cookie (unless you make use of vacuums and cut the time) has been all the rage these days, and I've been itching to see what all the fuss is about. While I'm not crazy enough to make them in my AC-free apartment, I happily accepted some fresh-baked cookies from a friend of mine. You know ...

Last week, when I mentioned that I've been keeping a batch of sourdough starter going and asked for new ways to use up the excess, a couple people like MaggieMorgan2 and CookShelly asked for sourdough-starter recipes. NormaJJohnson asked for my recipe for sourdough English muffins. I promised I'd post them after I got back from Rhode Island. Well, ...