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This recipe is from my friend Taneka. She got it from her massage therapist, Missi. Missi got it from her husband, Joe — an award winning pie baker. Given its lineage, I was more than a little curious to try this pie; so I made it for Todd before we left town. Overall, it was [...]
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This year I ordered a fully cooked turkey from Whole Foods, and so far, I feel pretty good about it. It’s nice being able to focus on just the “fun” things like sides and desserts. Hopefully there won’t be any regrets when it’s time to bring out the bird, but somehow I doubt it. Skipping [...]
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I can’t believe it took me so long to discover free-form tarts, but thanks to Food & Wine, I did and I’m hooked. This recipe is for a blueberry flavored one, and as the name implies, there’s no tart pan, pie shell or anything to hold it together other than pastry, which in this case [...]
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This weekend I had dinner at a Cuban restaurant in Atlanta. The dessert offerings were key lime pie and mango pie, but it was one of those dinners where everyone eats so much that by the dessert hour, no one really cares about it no matter how enticing it sounds on the menu. But …
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Louise loves baking with rhubarb, but she knows I’m not a fan and offered to write a guest post for her fellow rhubarb lovers. Since I couldn’t decide what to bake this weekend, I took her up on the offer and am now happy to share this recipe Louise put together last week. For this [...]
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I’ll take whatever compliments I can get, but yesterday I got the ultimate. Or at least the pie did. Todd said this one, adapted from Pies & Tarts (Maida Heatter Classic Library) was the best he’d ever eaten. It was a nice surprise because I was a little worried this pie wouldn’t work out. Unlike [...]
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Yesterday we drove our baby to the hill country and left her in the hands of young women with names like “Skipper” and “Snoopy”. Yes, Fuzz has gone to camp for the first time. It was hard saying goodbye, but I think she’ll have more fun riding horses and swimming then sitting around the house [...]
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During our Disney trip, I kept thinking about blueberry pie. If I’d had the ingredients I would have baked one right there in the hotel room. It did have a full kitchen that was a bit nicer than the one I’m in now, but we had no car and were limited to the groceries we [...]
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