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Cookiebar
If you’ve heard about the upcoming launch of Dorie Greenspan’s venture, Cookiebar, and you live in New York City, you must be excited. If you…
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Banana tarte tatin
Using the recipe we previously tested with the peach tarte tatin, today we made a banana tarte tatin. It took no time at all –…
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Pistachio encrusted monkfish, grilled fennel salad and peach tarte tatin
Today we’ll be making a perfectly seasonal Sunday dinner: pistachio encrusted monkfish, grilled fennel and onion salad and peach tarte tatin. Monkfish 2 monkfish fillets…
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Dates-in-a-blanket (Valentine’s Day special!)
There are many things my grandma taught me, but one of them is: never let dough go to waste, not in this house! I don’t…
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My favorite oatmeal cookies
Easy as 1-2-3, I promise! 1. Start with: 50g butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons honey. Put all of this into a medium-sized saucepan. Stir and heat…
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Gingerbread house
This is less of an instructional post and more of a showing off of the gingerbread house that my family and I made over the…
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‘Unemployed’ pudding
I came across the concept of pudding chômeur just the other day. I asked my Canadian-born colleague about whether he has ever had it before…
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Guest post: Ricotta cheese pie and biscuits
This post comes courtesy of one of my mom’s best friends from college who now lives in Australia! So a post from far away, but…
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Time for tea: claufoti(s)
In Russian we call it poldnik, which literally means ‘noon meal’ but I think that name was based on back in the day when people…
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Not your gran’s apple cake
So, completely out of the blue, I ended up baking a new kind of apple pie today. It is a slight variation of a recipe…
