Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Friday, April 13, 2012

Punch Request: Fruit Punch Delight

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I got a request for some non-alcoholic punches that didn't include fruit juice concentrates. Here's one from the Milwaukee Ward Rel...
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...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Island Delights: Four Recipes, No Rum

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The whole concept of  A Little Something  is, really, party tidbits. Little bits of food to serve at parties. Little bits of food to soak up...
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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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Plan For Future Happiness: Tutti-Frutti

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I've been gorging myself on berries lately; 'tis the season, after all. Blueberries with breakfast. Blackberries with lunch. And whi...
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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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Wine Lover's Cookbook, by Sid Goldstein: Chilled Summer Peach Soup

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Time for another family favorite off the cookbook shelves: The Wine Lover's Cookbook: Great Recipes for the Perfect Glass of Wine by Si...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Super Easy Preserving: Pickled Cherries

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Oh, who am I kidding? I'm glad that I posted Hot Spicy Candy , but I just can't stop thinking about these cherries... The County Fai...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Picnic Soup #2: Tomato and Buttermilk Soup

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I didn't eat/enjoy/recognize avocados as food until after college (Face masks? Sure. Food, no.). If one of your fellow picnickers shares...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

Picnic Soup #1: Cold Avocado Soup

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I'm going to go see the Indigo Girls at Wolftrap next week, and have been driving everyone around me a bit crazy by my obsessive menu pl...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Cake Day!: Rhubarb Cake

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It's Cake Day here chez Take One Cookbook. I've got a Bacardi Rum Cake baking away in the oven as we speak, and the scent is heaven...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

We'll Put Prunes In Anyting: Prune Pie

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The one dish that says "Mom & Family" to me beyond all others is vinaterta, an Icelandic layered torte with stewed prunes betw...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Now All We Need Is A Gang: Grandma's Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings

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I grew up in the 1970s, and cut my entertainment consumer teeth on the offerings of the Walt Disney Company. I saw everything, and loved it ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Setting A Man Trap: Blueberry Boy Bait

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Okay, okay, once you see the size of the pan required, you may not believe that I chose this recipe based on the name and not the pan. But,...
Monday, December 8, 2008

Candied Citrus Peel

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What do the lebkuchen and brandied fruitcake drops have in common? Besides both being from Christmas 101 , that is. The use of candied ci...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Brandied Fruitcake Drops

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I love fruitcake. I never understood the gags about people passing around fruitcake year after year, because, well, my grandma made good fr...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Sauerkraut Candy

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Be not afraid. There is no actual sauerkraut in this candy. (Though, let it be known, sauerkraut goes great in sweets, especially in chocola...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Cranberry Sauce With Port

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I searched through my journal to find a copy of my cranberry sauce recipe. Evidently, I've never tried to write it down. I do have sever...

Easy As Pie

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Got an extra set of refrigerated pie crusts lurking around? Why not throw together another pie for the Thanksgiving feast? It'll take 5 ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Pineapple-Buttermilk Sherbet

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Thanksgiving reminds me not so much of my father, but of not having my father around. See, he's a Christmas tree farmer, and when we wer...