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Category Archives: Desserts

There are many traditions and foods considered lucky for the last supper of the year, including hoppin’ John, pork and sauerkraut, salt cod, and greens to name just a few. Many people will head out for a night of revelry and drunkenness, but we will stay home. My daughter and I always spend New Year’s […]

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  Watching the Mind of a Chef,  in episode #14 of season one, Christina Tosi makes corn cookies, and as soon as I saw this I knew I had to make them! Corn Cookies!!! I wanted to dance around my kitchen, and I hadn’t even made them yet. I like all things corn! I put corn in my […]

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When I was in fourth grade I entered a Girl Scout bake-off, and won first prize with a plum cake. I believe it was the Plum Cake Cockaigne from The Joy of Cooking. Each of my sisters and I made something for this competition, and basically my mom just gave us each a recipe. I […]

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So often someone comes to my house for dinner, or I go to theirs, and one of us asks, ‘can I have that recipe?’.  Sometimes the recipe is from a cookbook, or website, and then it’s easy, they look it up and either have success or not, but when you give someone a recipe you […]

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As March ends so does a month of kale, quinoa and chicken. Some recipes more successful than others, all fun, and I’m glad to be moving on to April, or am I? After this endless, snowy, dreary, cold, really endless, winter, which I seem to have spent 99% of in my kitchen, cooking and eating, […]

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