Apricot-Raspberry Rustic Tartlets

July 7, 2010

Sometimes I think I need to have my head examined.  The only reason this recipe is being posted today is because a tweep asked me to post it.  Why it never occurred to me to post a recipe for this is totally a mystery.  Duh!  I’m a food blogger.  I’m supposed to share this stuff [...]

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Celebrate!

July 4, 2010

I wish you all (at least my American readers) a happy 4th of July!  You still have time to whip up these incredibly simple bite-size, melt-in-your-mouth brownie buttons and dress them up for that party you’re surely going to tonight.  Use your microwave to melt the chocolate (bittersweet for the brownie and white for the [...]

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Whole-Wheat Bread

June 23, 2010

The first time I attempted to make this bread for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, I was terribly disappointed.  Which might actually be an understatement, considering that the loaf below was the sad result of that first try. I did everything I could to avoid making a flat, dense, dry brick.  But it didn’t work.  [...]

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Miso Chicken (or Tofu) Stir-Fry

June 8, 2010

Around here, there have been a few hints that summer is on its merry way.  But the corn guys are not at the Farmer’s Market yet, and my snow and sugar snap peas are still producing as fast as they can.  Other than a few days of blissful warmth, we’ve had a wet and cool [...]

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White Bread: Cloverleaf Rolls

May 21, 2010

Can you tell that I am dragging out the end of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge?  As you plainly see, I baked these rolls for Easter, and I am just now writing about them.  Shame on me! The Bread Baker’s Apprentice gives three variations for white bread, and each one can make sandwich bread, rolls, [...]

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Vienna Bread with Dutch Crunch Topping

May 13, 2010

Never my favorite, nor my least favorite, I’ve consumed a Dutch Crunch roll as the outer packaging for a sandwich maybe three times in my entire life.  So why I decided to make this Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge Vienna bread with the optional Dutch Crunch topping, I’ll never fully know.  I think I was heavily [...]

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Lemon Fettuccine with Agretti, Bacon, and Roasted Garlic

May 6, 2010

I can hear you now.  What the h-e-double-toothpicks is agretti?  Or maybe I’m just hearing the echo from when I asked that.  Since it was part of my Mariquita Farm CSA box, I was destined to learn more. Apparently it’s an Italian spring green (which, when put that way, sounds like a paint color, doesn’t [...]

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Tuscan Bread and Olive Spread

May 4, 2010

You’ll either love it or hate it; people feel strongly about a bread with no salt.  That’s right: Tuscan bread is totally salt-free.  But that’s not the only difference in this Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge bread.  It also starts with a flour paste (made by pouring boiling water over flour), which manages to look remarkably [...]

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Spinach and Orange Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

April 27, 2010

Last spring, my community garden plot overgrown with spinach, I madly steamed and froze the extra harvest.  This year, constant rains and cold temperatures thwarted my plants, leaving me with a few spindly leaves.  So I was actually thrilled when my Two Small Farms’ CSA box included a giant bag of spinach and lots of [...]

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Swedish Rye Bread Pudding

April 21, 2010

The first bread pudding I ever had (or at least remember) was in a hotel restaurant on Harbor Island in San Diego.  I savored it while perched upon a swivel barstool at the diner-style counter at the tender age of six.  It was an inauspicious introduction to bread pudding, to be sure.  The fact that [...]

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