From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Challah French Toast

October 29, 2007
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Ima’s Challah (now with whole wheat instructions!)

October 27, 2007

Growing up, there was one option for challah in town: that was Shalom’s, the kosher supermarket in Wheaton, MD. Every Friday my mom would swing by Brookville supermarket and pick up two challot, which were delivered from Shalom’s that morning. The challah was truly uneventful: it was never dense enough, far too airy, not sweet [...]

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When time is of the essence

October 26, 2007

Take this. In ten minutes flat, you can have these cookies made. Including prep time. Why? Because they’re from the box. I might love to bake, but I sure as hell can’t make cookies with cute pumpkins in the middle like this. Leave that to Nestle. I don’t need to point out that they’re perfect [...]

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Lemon curd raspberry tartlets

October 25, 2007

It is super-duper chilly this morning and fall is finally setting in. Crisp air in my face and the crunch of leaves beneath my feet give me a serious hankering for some pumpkin soup! But this post is about tartlets. Everyone makes muffins; nobody makes tartlets. Yes, they’re not as quick and easy to make [...]

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Yellow Squash with basil and pine nuts

October 24, 2007

On last week’s episode of The Splendid Table podcast, actor and writer Michael Tucker spoke of his experience living as an American in Italy. Aside from the obvious challenges adapting to a foreign language and culture, he has learned an entirely different way of cooking since moving to the small town of Umbria. Something he [...]

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Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip Ring

October 23, 2007

On Sunday, D and I are hosting thirty-ish people for a housewarming. Our freezer is full to the top spinach-feta filo pies, tartlets and muffins, all shaped like my one tartlet pan. I’m making a meringue pavlova tomorrow, but I wanted another dessert, and I can’t make any more tartlet-shaped things or my house will [...]

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Not Derby Pie (revised, with recipe!)

October 22, 2007

One Friday night many years ago, this dish landed on my dining room table. Being the ever-obnoxious 9-year-old that I was, I immediately spat, “what’s that?”“Not Derby Pie.”“Not Derby Pie?”“yep.”“Well if it’s not Derby Pie, then what is it?” and, after a moment’s hesitation, “what is Derby Pie, anyway?”My mother laughed, as she often does [...]

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Asian Cabbage Salad

October 21, 2007

I promise lots of posts this week with various recipes and pics from our housewarming, but this recipe was requested multiple times tonight with varying degrees of urgency, so it gets first attention. My mom and I first encountered this salad at a potluck. One of the guests showed up with four ziploc bags, and [...]

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