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Orange you glad?
Citrus always seems abundant in the grocery store, and, with its bright colors and its bright taste, does its part to bring sunshine to winter days. Just the other day I saw a recipe for a flourless chocolate-orange cake, and as I find the combination of chocolate and orange among my favorites, had to try…
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Case study!
One of the pleasures of watching something like “The Great British Bake Off” is learning that in baking, as in Shakespeare, “a rose by any other name” is part of the learning process. The differences in nomenclature and pronunciation always add to the enjoyment. Aubergine is eggplant, corgette is zucchini, and over there it’s shal-LOT,…
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Wrap, and unwrap!
Something got into me after Thanksgiving, and, for whatever reason I started spending more time than just meal prep in the kitchen. Rather than do the more customary ‘year in review’, let me share with you how I wrapped up 2024, and unwrapped 2025. I’ve updated the recipes on “never 2 old to start cooking”,…
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When life hands you bananas,…
With four bananas on hand, starting to get those streaks in the peel that say “ripe and ready”, and with the prospects of an afternoon in which hanging around home is the agenda, well – banana nut bread!!! There’s just something warm and comforting about banana nut bread, not to mention that it’s easy to…
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Cremeux to the top!
Cutting through the somewhat theatrical nature of so many online cooking demonstrations, I am almost universally intrigued to learn new techniques and, being the reason something attracts me in the first place, new dishes or concoctions. Cremeux is an interesting combo of both a new (to me) technique, and learning the properties of its ingredients…
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Life’s certainties.
We’ve all heard it said that few things – taxes, etc. – are certain in life. To whatever list you might have, you can safely add that if a recipe says ‘butter pecan’, yours truly is going to take the bait and give it a try. When I saw a Butter Pecan Cookie recipe by…
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New, and then old!
Growing up in Mississippi, at least in our family, blueberries were not a thing. It was strawberries for strawberry shortcake, and cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas (who can forget the sound of Ocean Spray sliding out of the can onto the serving dish). Not long ago, and for sure in the present, I had…
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On a roll!!!
It’s not often that the stars align when you have the itch to try something new, but just the other day, with some lemons that needed to be put use staring at me, up popped what seemed to be a relatively do-able recipe for a lemon cream roll cake. I’ve wanted to try a jelly…
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If you like to cook,…
…you know that there are days when the joy of it just takes over. And when it’s hot outside, but cool inside, and Summer’s bounty is calling, well, it just doesn’t get any better. I follow a guy on Instagram who lives on a farm in Iowa; he’s in his grandmother’s house, and from the…
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“Shall I compare thee…
…to a summer’s day?” I sincerely doubt that Shakespeare had a blog post highlighting lemons as inspiration for his Sonnet 18. However, I can assure you that my inspiration for this post is how lemon allows us to capture the brightness of a summer’s day, even when “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”.…
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