Recipes

Oooh.
Yes, you should go “Oooh.” and when you taste this you should go “Mmmmmmm, oooh, unnnngg mmmm.”
Yeah, it’s that good.
Ingredients:
2 8 ounce bricks of Philly cream cheese at room temp.
1 stick of butter at room temp
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Madagascar vanilla bean (sliced, and seeds scraped out)
7 to 9 ounces [...]

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Yeah that’s a mouthful, imagine if I had included “With Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Buttercream” but I’m saving that for a separate post because it’s so damn tasty it deserves its own damn write up!
So carrot cake, people either love it or hate it, I’m in love with it, but it has to be well [...]

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Recently David Lebovitz posted a version of this recipe that he adapted from Chocolate & Zucchini.
I have to say this is an excellent savory snack cake, perfect for afternoon nibbles, cocktail parties and picnics. I made it for a day with the family and put it out with cheeses and meats for everyone to [...]

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I recently acquired a copy of The Breads of France which I’d long ago added to my wishlist, but never received. Cut forward a few years I’ve completely forgotten about this book and one day my coworker Mimi brings in some books that she was getting rid of and this was one of them, [...]

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So you love Eggplant Parmesan, but you’re on a diet… Or you can’t have fried foods because of your blood pressure, cholesterol or other Doctor restricted $(#*%#()_ food groups.
Here’s an eggplant parmesan that omits the breading and frying, replaces it with herbs and roasting, and adds some spinach for extra vitamins. It’s a healthier [...]

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Every cook changes their recipes, a little tweak here, a pinch of something new there, and before you know it, you’ve rewritten an entire recipe.
I first committed my tomato sauce recipe to paper about 6 years ago, published it online a couple of years after that, and when this site went up it was one [...]

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The other day at the store I noticed they had some ground lamb and decided to grab some, figuring I’d make a burger of some sort. I let the idea bubble in my head as I went through the store and decided I would most definitely want some slices of roasted lemon to go [...]

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My friend Jill pointed out this morning that due to my last name any toast I make is French toast, so we’re subtitling this recipe “Frenchy French Toast!” Jill also claims to have told me about putting orange juice in the batter over a year ago, this may well be true, but I had [...]

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This recipe is adapted from The Mixer Bible which is a great ‘go to’ if you have a stand mixer, in fact, it’s a must have.
NOTE: This recipe includes 3 rises that total 7 hours, start this early in the day if you want it for dinner.
Brioche:
Ingredients:
1 package active dry yeast
3 Tablespoons [...]

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