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Mediterranean Lemon Cake
Its real name is Citrus and Olive Oil Cake, but I didn’t want to scare you in case you hadn’t noticed that olive oil in deserts is The Hot New Thing. Not. It’s hot all right, but it isn’t remotely new....
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Rhubarb – In Pie and Beyond
Oh dear, HOW has the time passed so quickly (as if gardeners didn’t know). I have now planted 6 kinds of peas, multititudinous onions and leeks, beets and lettuces and other comestibles galore, as well...
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Almost Al’s Ricotta Tart
Almost Al’s Ricotta Tart (with puree from our own Kaga plums and a few Johnny Jump-ups because why not?) Summer and winter – and spring and fall; this is a treat that knows no season – my friend Alex...
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Bourbon (or Rum or Brandy) Balls – A Nifty Cookie That Needs a New Name
Holiday chocolate cookie-candies, everything easy except what to call them. These classic holiday goodies are almost perfect: Only one (processor) bowl to wash; no cooking; deeply chocolate flavored...
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Here Cookie, Here Cookie, Cookie Cookie Cookie
Or, to put it another way: Stop her before she bakes again. The decorated dark ones are gingerbread; pale stars are sugar cookies. Little round coconut covered jobs are rum balls; crescents are vanilla...
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Indecision Pie (Shaker Lemon and Cherry)
The lemon is underneath the cherries This floated into the kitchen because Jan 23 was National Pie Day*, an event that got a surprising amount of PR, given that every day is pie day in most people’s...
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One-Bowl Chocolate Cake and Ultimate Chocolate Toffee Crunch– Easy and Even...
Myself, I’m trying a blood orange version of the recent Shaker Lemon and Cherry Pie for Valentines Day, but this being a chocolate drenched holiday, I feel it incumbent to point you toward a couple of...
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Triple Ginger Gingerbread – and the paths down which it led
Actually, Triple Ginger was the first stop on a path that started with a yen for old fashioned hot water gingerbread: soft, spicy, homely, simple to make – the original brownie, if by “brownie” you...
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Corn and Coconut Cupcakes
Four short years ago, in the course of extolling Black Mexican Corn, I strongly urged home gardeners to buy their modern sweet corn from local farmers, so they could devote their all their corn growing...
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Maple Pecan Pumpkin Pie – a Recipe from a Friend
Maple Pecan Pumpkin Pie – what is there to say but read on? As I was saying only a moment ago, here comes Thanksgiving. Time for the Turkey Roundup. Time also for the pumpkin pie – but the Squash...
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Pistachio Piezadas, My New Favorite Cookie – Unless That’s Black Walnut Honey...
Left to right: Pistachio Piezadas, Lime Cornmeal Biscotti, Black Walnut Honey Drops. Around here, it’s not too late to be trottin’ out the recipes. Holiday cookie season isn’t officially over until...
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Sunshine Cookies – A Sweet for All Seasons
Sunshine cookies, my new name for Figolli, with semi-traditional Figolli decoration. (It’s semi-traditional because there should be a foil-wrapped chocolate egg somewhere on each cookie. I...
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