Topic Baking / Desserts
Sourdough is a Fickle Bitch, Part Deux
If you’ve got your starter ready, let’s make some bread. I ran across some measurements that work pretty good for me, I’m not sure where I found them so
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Sourdough is a Fickle Bitch, Part 1
To me, a kitchen is just a big chemistry set, a scattered mix of ingredients just waiting to become something unique and tasty.” Vaughn My friend, Vaughn Montgomery, is living
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Buttermilk Biscuits with Kentucky Ham, Molasses Butter & Creole Chile Jam
“Grazing is a state of being in the South. In fact, many of our community cookbooks from the twentieth century are front-heavy, with so many more hors d’oeuvre and finger-food
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Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
Tasty little bastards,” is what the Kid calls them. I should probably reign in his profanity, but he’s right — they are tasty. Buttermilk biscuits. Hot from the oven and
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Stripper Affogato di Gelato
An affogato di gelato, or “gelato drowned by espresso”, is a simple, entertaining finish to a meal. Ah, but an affogato presented in a stripper shot glass procured from the
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Convivial Dinner Party: Winter Supper for Close-knit Friends
Warm up an otherwise cold January evening by gathering a few close friends for supper. Stoke up the fireplace, turn on Paolo Conte, light a zillion candles, and feast
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Mini Popovers
These mini popovers are a fantastic appetizer idea. They can be baked ahead of time without fear of deflation, and can be topped with anything, making for a festive appetizer. This recipe
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Grandma Audrey’s Apple Cake
It’s a lovely day to bake an apple cake. It’s snowing. Don’t want to go anywhere. Might as well fill the home with the fragrance of apples and cinnamon – it’ll
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French Classic: Tarte Tatin
Nothing says simplistic elegance like an Apple Tarte Tatin (tahr-tah-TAN). It may look complicated, but it’s unbelievably simple. Golden delicious apples pan-seared with butter and sugar, topped with a circle of
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Deep Cocoa Brownies
Just like the title infers, this brownie has a deep cocoa flavor, enhanced by mini chocolate chips and handfuls of melted chocolate. It’s moist, delicious, and takes only minutes
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Dark Chocolate Brownies
This brownie is my favorite all-purpose, straight-forward, hit-me-with-some-good-chocolate brownie. It’s got mini chocolate chips as well as lots of good chocolate for a very moist, deep, rich, focused chocolate
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Double Fudge Brownies
This is the perfect brownie for me – I love deep, dark and decadent. The only complaint (if you can call it that) from friends is that they couldn’t eat a lot
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Looking for the Best Brownies: We Tested 9 Recipes
Recipe Testing Day at work is a beautiful thing – researching recipes, experimenting with different ratios of essentially the same ingredients, comparing results side by side, using someone else’s kitchen, (better
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Cinnamon Rum Cracker Jacks
Seasons Greetings! I have never been so grateful for warmth & light. If you followed the news at all, the Seattle area was hit with major winds that knocked down something
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
This is a good peanut butter cookie recipe from the new Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. I filled them with her peanut butter frosting, but also added a touch of chocolate ganache,
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Best Freakin’ Banana Bread in the World
Right out of the oven, this bread is warm-banana-butter love. Hands down, it’s the best banana bread I’ve ever had. And, after the pounds of b-bread I’ve packed away over the years, I
Continue Reading→Wine Pairing: Italian Almond Cookies & Tommasi Dessert Wines
The Pairing: This is a perfect dessert match – rich/sweet/nutty wine with rich/sweet/nutty cookies, and they both are from northeast Italy. Tommasi Recioto di Soave is a chilled, white dessert wine –
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