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Orange Blossom Sablés for Mother’s Day

* Find out how you can help to save the life of my friend’s little boy. * ================================== “My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.” –Graycie Harmon Cherry blossoms will always make me think of Japan, [...]

* Find out how you can help to save the life of my friend’s little boy, and be entered to win one of two great prizes. * ================================================================= My mom is an amazing cook, and I was spoiled to grow up eating her food. Although she can whip up an amazing roast or stir fry, [...]

* Find out how you can help to save the life of my friend’s little boy, and be entered to win one of two great prizes. * ========================= The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a [...]

One of the simplest ways to prepare tofu is to make tofu steak. And let me tell you, it is delicious. It is lightly crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside. This dish shows that tofu doesn’t have to be disguised as something else, or covered up with a bunch of heavy flavors [...]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret—the best Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe is not the one that they put on every package of chocolate chips. The Toll House recipe gets its name from the Toll House Restaurant—a real toll house in Whitman, Massachusetts built in 1709 where a toll [...]

I’ve been battling a doozy of a cold. One of those colds where everything sounds muffled, you can’t smell or taste anything, you’re achy, and just generally miserable. One of those colds where you would swear you are sicker than you are, except for the fact that you aren’t even running a fever. My plan [...]

This month’s Daring Bakers’ challenge was almost the challenge that wasn’t. The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home [...]

You can find me guest posting over at bell’alimento (one of my all-time favorite blogs)! I am sharing my recipe for Brown Sugar Tea Cake—a light (low calorie and low fat!) cake that isn’t light on flavor.

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In his book Ratio, Michael Ruhlman writes, “Everyone should be able to make bread when they want to, but rarely do we because of the perceived effort involved.” Ruhlman is right. There are too many people out there who do not make bread because they believe that a significant amount of effort is involved, or [...]

When I was growing up I always looked forward to Christmastime and to visiting my maternal grandmother who was German. She would always have a big platter of Christmas goodies on hand for us to nibble on. But these weren’t just any Christmas goodies, these were German Christmas goodies—goodies that she had bought at the [...]

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