From the monthly archives:

December 2007

Chocolate Pretzel Success

December 29, 2007

A while back, Deb of Smitten Kitchen fame blogged about the shortcomings of Martha Stewart’s chocolate pretzel cookie recipe. “Dry, bland, and not chocolatey enough” and more colorful adjectives described a cocopretzel that just didn’t cut it. She suggested trying to make pretzels out of Dorie Greenspan’s very flavorful and buttery chocolate rollout cookies, which [...]

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Sugar High Friday, baby!

December 28, 2007

Hey folks! Just a plug to check out Zorra’s roundup of the Sugar High Friday entries — mine’s all the way at the bottom; it’s the saffrom rice pudding and it’s delicious! All the entries look mouthwatering — so go check’em out!
Have a great weekend!

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Simple antipasti

December 26, 2007

In Italy, antipasti are meant to whet your appetite. (Granted, when I ate out in Italy, my appetite needs little whetting — what with all the whiffs of freshly-made pasta and roasted tomato sauce drifting from the kitchen to my table.) Nonetheless, in Italy, antipasti are simply appetizers, mere preludes to the main dish. In [...]

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Happy Holidays!

December 25, 2007

You know it’s holiday time when this is your kitchen table display…
Happy Holidays to all, and enjoy the winter season!

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Daring Bakers bake Buche de Noel

December 23, 2007

In honor of the holiday season, Daring Bakers’ took on what may be the holy grail of daring recipes: Buche de Noel, or Yule Log. Until Lis and Ivonne charged DBers with making this, I didn’t even know it was a food. See, traditionally, the Yule Log was a large, thick piece of wood burned [...]

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Holiday Cookies

December 23, 2007

With candy canes and sprinkles lining grocery store shelves, holiday season just screams, “sugar cookies!” Around this time each year, I toss aside my fanciest dessert recipes and opt for the more humble sugar cookie instead. Sugar cookies can be enhanced any which way, from flavoring the dough to adding crushed candy to topping with [...]

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Carrot Soup

December 19, 2007

It’s already December and I still haven’t posted a freezable soup recipe? Can’t be.
My nose is red and my paws are frosty these days. If only it were possible to have the kettle whistling by the time I walked in the door, so that I could instantly hold a piping hot mug of chai after [...]

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Apricot-Cranberry Couronne

December 17, 2007

D. had some law school buddies over this weekend for a study marathon, and I thought it only fair that if D. study her butt off, I cook my butt off. So I started brainstorming ideas for brunch food that could be served room temp (since I’d already be gone by the time they came [...]

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