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Almond Butter-Quinoa Blondies

June 3, 2013
Quinoa Blondies

This weekend we visited Half Price Books and found a big stack of Eating Well magazines for a dollar each.  Score!  Or so you’d think.  I didn’t feel like spending much money and only bought two.  Maybe I’ll go back and buy the rest on Saturday, but for now here’s a recipe from one of [...]

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Vanilla Gelato and My Oh-So-Fabulous Vanilla Collection

June 2, 2013
vanilla

A few weeks ago I started on a mission to find my favorite vanilla extract. What I’ve learned from this is that vanilla is like wine: it’s tough to find one favorite, because different vanillas go better with different things. For instance, Mexican vanilla might be better in certain cookies, while Indonesian vanilla bean adds [...]

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Weeknight Coconut Cake aka “Coconut Mist Cake”

May 31, 2013
Coconut Mist Cake

It’s the end of the month, I’m low on ingredients, and haven’t been feeling particularly inspired in the baking department. I almost baked yet another batch of brownies, but then along came this recipe! It’s an old one from Baker’s coconut, and I loved that it seemed to be designed for the everyday baker interested [...]

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Review — Root Beer Magic Shell on Vanilla Ice Cream and Blondies

May 29, 2013
blondie with root beer flavored Magic Shell on top

We had a quiet Memorial Day, but in hindsight, I wish I’d had a party and served this!

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Glass Dish Brownies

May 28, 2013
brownie on a plate

Up until this weekend, the only time I baked brownies in a glass/Pyrex dish was when I was making the microwave version. Because even though glass is pretty, metal pans have always seemed more reliable in terms of heat conduction and most recipes are developed for metal, anyway. But I’ve noticed a lot of people [...]

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Apricot Almond Biscotti

May 26, 2013
biscotti

Happy Memorial Day! I feel like I should be posting a flag cake or something more patriotic, but the truth is all I really wanted to eat this weekend was biscotti.  Well, and brownies; but the brownies didn’t turn out very well. So here’s the biscotti recipe which is VERY easy and good. It’s also [...]

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Brown Ale Biscuits

May 25, 2013
Beer Biscuits

Not that you need an excuse to buy good beer this weekend, but here’s a recipe that calls for brown ale.  It’s a variation on traditional no-yeast beer bread, but in biscuit form — or rather, muffin form.  Because the batter is thin and gloppy, it needs to be baked in a muffin pan to [...]

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Pineapple Icebox Cake

May 24, 2013
pineapple icebox cake

One of the best things my grandmother made was a dessert called banana split cake. It wasn’t really a cake at all, but a layer of cookie crumbs topped with a creamy custard of some sort, whipped cream, pineapple and bananas. Over the years I’ve tried several versions of the recipe trying to get it [...]

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