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Love Affair with Condensed Milk + Absurdly Easy Chocolate Fudge

On March 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

While I was in Jamaica I rediscovered my love of condensed milk.  I had breakfast at Juici Patties a few times and discovered that they give you a packet of condensed milk with your coffee instead of cream or milk!  This would also explain why you can’t find cream at the [...]

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How to Make Butter

On February 28, 2010 · 8 Comments

Every once in a while I start feeling extra crafty when it comes to cooking.  I get these impulses to make really basic things that are readily available in the supermarket.  Once it was jam, another time it was bread – and there have likely been many other things over the years.

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Oven-Smoked Ribs

On February 9, 2010 · 2 Comments

I love ribs.  Part of me thinks they should be a food group to themselves.  But alas that won’t happen.  I make ribs a few different ways and am always on the lookout for new ways to make them.  Having always lived in an apartment I’ve never been able to do [...]

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Pasta With Chicken and Mushrooms, Risotto Style

On December 29, 2009 · 3 Comments

I was reading the Food Section of the New York Times and stumbled upon this recipe for a risotto-style pasta dish by Mark Bittman.  I love risotto and I love pasta so I figured I’d see how this would all work out.

It was kind of labour intensive for no reason!  The [...]

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100% Whole Wheat No-Knead Bread

On April 13, 2008 · 4 Comments

At last! After months and months of experimenting I’ve finally nailed the 100% Whole Wheat Bread baking.

If you’ve browsed through the archives you may have noticed my obsession with bread making. And not just any bread making but the no-knead technique brought to the attention of the masses (I’m totally the [...]

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Falafel!

On March 3, 2008 · 3 Comments

Falafel! gets an exclamation point every time because it’s one of my all-time fave foods. Seriously, I LOVE LOVE LOVE a falafel! My fave falafel! is from L’As de Falafel! in Paris. It’s the gold standard and absolutely delicious. But alas I don’t live in Paris and my quest for the perfect [...]

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Lahey’s Bread — Once Again

On February 9, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve made no secret that I’m obsessed with this bread. It has literally changed my life. I don’t buy bread anymore because homemade is so much better.

If you do a quick search on this site with the term “lahey” you’ll come across my previous attempts with the bread. My goal [...]

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Lahey’s No-Knead Bread — Revisited

On December 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Okay, so I know that I wrote about the no-knead bread before BUT I kind of want to chronicle my success/ failure with the bread. So you get other post.

This time around I did about 2/3 whole wheat and 1/3 white. I also decided to [...]

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My Kitchen: The Essentials

On November 7, 2007 · 2 Comments

So I had a special request to do a post about kitchen essentials. I interpreted this as being about tools that I absolutely need (or totally enjoy having) in my kitchen. They range from things that you can use everyday to things you may use once every year.

Mark Bittman wrote a great [...]

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Lahey’s No-Knead Bread

On October 22, 2007 · 4 Comments

For the record, this isn’t the first time I’ve made this bread but now that it’s no longer too hot to turn on the oven I can go back to my bread making.

I started baking bread because I was really concerned with all the STUFF in packaged bread. I mean [...]

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