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If you have a celebration coming up or are just looking for a flashy but easy fruit dessert, I heartily recommend the Triple Berry Mousse Tart from Orchard’s Finest. After trying it this week, Todd proclaimed it one of the best desserts ever. (!!) Now he could have meant one of one hundred best [...]
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With blueberries in season, I thought I’d bump up a recipe we really enjoyed a few years ago. Originally titled Nova Scotia Blueberry Cream Cake, it’s more like a cheesecake than a blueberry pie, but instead of cream cheese, it’s held together by mixture of sour cream, sugar, whipped cream and egg yolks. If you’re [...]
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Today we went to a food blogger potluck at “The Soup Peddler’s” house. David’s contributions, other than his house and yard and everything else, were some boneless whole chickens with various Cajun stuffings. The chickens were given to him by a friend/customer who’d spent an entire day shopping for them Impressive? Yes, …
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I’d wanted to make a lemon dessert for the past two weeks, but couldn’t get my act together. I kept buying lemons, but changing my mind on desserts. I decided to sit back, relax, and let the recipe come to me; and last night, it did. I was reading a Tyler Florence cookbook, turned the [...]
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Yesterday, I made a double batch of tart pastry but wasn’t exactly sure how to fill it. This morning, I settled on an apple & frangipane combo based on a recipe from Once Upon a Tart. The tart requires a bit of work, but it can be done in phases. I made the pastry yesterday, did the apple peeling and [...]
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As mentioned earlier, my goal for today was to tackle a French pastry called Galette des Rois à la Frangiapane. In France, this pastry is eaten primarily around the holidays. Clotilde does a nice job of describing the tradition surrounding its presentation, though after reading her blog, For today, I completely disregarded the …
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