Posted in baking, tagged baking, cake, cheese, cinnamon, cloves, confectioners, confections, dessert, ginger, maple syrup, nutmeg, pumpkin, vanilla, walnuts on October 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last weekend, we went up to Massachusetts to visit a whole mess of our friends, and of course, wherever there is a whole mess of our friends, I try to make baked goods appear. First, we drove up to Vermont to buy some maple sugar, since it’s an ingredient that I’ve been dying for since [...]
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Posted in baking, tagged baking, confections, dessert on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this about a year ago when someone asked me where I learned to bake, so here’s a brief history of what’s behind all the recipes I post.
It just sort of happened, really. Anne taught me pie crust, of course, and my brother’s friend’s mom taught me that brownies are meant to have a [...]
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It’s been two weeks since the pie-eating contest, so any remnants that you may have smuggled home are long gone, unless you were smart enough to pop a slice into your freezer for a delicious treat in the future. For most people, though, the pie coma has worn off, the nausea from inhaling the equivalent [...]
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Posted in baking, tagged baking, bars, brownies, chocolate, chocolate chips, confections, dessert, flax, fudgy, parchment, rich, vanilla, vegan on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The final batch of food for the masses had to be decadent, and it had to be vegan. We were planning to hang out with a bunch of hippies, so I knew there were bound to be vegans among the group, and indeed there were. The vegans, however, had to compete with everyone for these [...]
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Posted in baking, tagged baking, bars, confectioners, confections, desserts, dough, filling, gifts, juice, lemon, parchment, sweets, zest on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My friend Mary and I went to college together, then studied abroad together in London one semester. We graduated a year ago, and haven’t seen much of each other since, what with her being out on Staten Island and me being out in Rockland County. It’s a multi-step public transportation adventure.
She came to visit [...]
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