Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Raisin Gingerbread Muffins

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I've been baking and cooking up a storm lately! Last night, for example, I made Raisin Gingerbread Muffins , thinking that they were a...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Sunday, Cooking

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Today, I'm going a bit nuts in the kitchen. Right now, I've got a ham in the oven, cooking low and slow a la Alton Brown's Cit...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Blueberry & Blackberry Boy Bait: Cooking the Books

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It's September 11, 2011, and I celebrated the second day of being in a Toxic-Free Zone (TFZ), media-wise. I invited a friend over for m...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Banana Mutt Cookies, and Just a Few More Hours to Enter the Drawing!

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There are a few more hours left to enter the cookbook giveaway drawing -- I'm extending the deadline past midnight Eastern tonight all ...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Cheese Please Hound Rounds: For, Lo, We Love All Things Cheese

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It comes as no surprise to you all that we are a cheese-loving family. We're die-hard Tillamook Cheese boosters; heck, Puck was even T...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Three Dog Bakery Cookbook, by Dan Dye & Mark Beckloff: Party Hearty Mix-It-Up Mix

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We're going through our bookshelves this weekend, doing a massive purge of books we've read and not loved. This is not a small task ...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Grasshopper Pie & Rhubarb Pie: Pies for Peace

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Sometimes, when it seems the whole world is sliding into a cesspit, JJ, Heather and I declare Pies for Peace. Basically, this means we get t...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Strawberry-Rhubarb Puff: A Reminder About Altering Recipes All You Want

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It's time for our semi-regular reminder about how most recipes are more about method and less about specific implementations. The Betty ...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Matinicus Islanders Don't Need Instructions: Grapenut Puddings

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Today, two recipes, one key ingredient, and not a lot of instructions to get in the way. The Ladies Aid really do expect you to know what th...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Substitution Time: Joe Bunkers or Brambles

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When I was a wee tyke, and my mom would make pie, my sister and I got to have the crust scraps. Sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, baked up, ta...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Glory, Glory, Halleluia: Glorified Apple Pie

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It's a hot, sunny fourth of July here in Washington, DC. Chefly Husband and I took our dog down to the Palisades parade, bought lemonade...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Favorite Recipes from Matinicus Island Maine, by the Matinicus Ladies Aid Society; Tomato Soup Cake

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I love The Wine Lover's Cookbook but have to admit that after a week of glossy pictures, perfect binding, and lengthy descriptions of e...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

You Don't Spell It, You Eat It: Fig and Raspberry Clafouti

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It's brutally hot in DC today--we hit 100°F (37.7°C, for those of you who, you know, use metric). I had two hearty pasta dishes flagged ...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Triple Underline: Brownies

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It's Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start to summer. I suspect many of you have cook out or picnic plans today or tomorrow. There ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Potluck Pleasers: 7 Layer Cookie, and Grasshopper Pie

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I was a child of the '70s, and I love me some potluck. So, today, we'll look at two recipes from the Cook Book Presented by The Fish...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Call and Response: Zucchini Bread

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I always try to pick a theme for the recipes here. Granted, sometimes the theme is just "what were they thinking?" but there's...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mom's Emphasis: Dump Cake and Oatmeal Cake

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I love thumbing through a cookbook and finding that the cooks before me have annotated the recipes. Still, it is always a little bit of a sh...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

"Very Good": Lemon Jell-o Cake

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I mentioned yesterday that I hadn't realized how many of my family's recipes came from the Cook Book Presented by The Fishwives of C...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Cook Book Presented by The Fishwives of Charleston Oregon; Good Cake

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When I was a very small creature, my family moved to Coos Bay, Oregon. My dad was a forester for the state, my mom was raising my sister and...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

The County Fair Cookbook, Lyn Stallworth & Rod Kennedy Jr.: Swiss Cabbage Pie

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I was a 4Her from early on. It helps that my dad was an Extension agent, and helped get 4H going in our town; my sister is now the secretary...