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Snickerdoodle Cookies on Savvy Sassy Moms

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Snickerdoodle cookies—soft cookies covered in cinnamon and sugar, easy to make, and especially delicious with a cold glass of milk.  What’s not to love?  Plus the name just makes me smile.  Try saying “snickerdoodle” three times in a row without smiling.  Today I’m sharing my snickerdoodle recipe over on Savvy Sassy Moms.  So if you […]

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Steamy Shrimp Pork Dumplings (Ebi to Butaniku no Gyoza) + A Giveaway!

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Add this recipe to ZipList! Shrimp Pork Dumplings (Ebi to Butaniku no Gyoza) Makes 20 dumplings Recipe Notes: The assembled dumplings can be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated for several hours, then cooked straight from the refrigerator.  If you want to freeze them—place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, freeze them […]

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Chilled Soba, Avocado, & Grapefruit Salad

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“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” — Ada Louise Huxtable My friend Juls, the author of the […]

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Sushi Rice, the Secret Behind Delicious Sushi

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Sushi-Su (Seasoned Vinegar for Sushi Rice) 1 cup rice vinegar 3 tablespoons sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 piece kombu, 2-inches square (optional) Combine the vinegar, sugar, salt, and kombu in a small saucepan.  Place the saucepan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring until the sugar and salt dissolve.  When the mixture is clear, remove […]

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Oyakodon—Japanese Chicken & Egg Rice Bowl

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Oyakodon Adapted from At Home with Japanese Cooking, by Elizabeth Andoh Makes 4 servings 1/2 pound boneless chicken breast 1 medium onion 2 cups dashi 1/4 cup soy sauce 3 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar 4 large eggs 1/3 cup chopped cilantro (mitsuba would be more authentic, if you can find it) 3 cups cooked Japanese […]

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FM’s Quick & Easy Chirashi Sushi

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FM’s Quick & Easy Chirashi Sushi Makes 3 – 5 servings 2 cups warm, freshly prepared steamed Japanese rice 3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt Kinshi tamago (shredded egg crêpes) or sweetened scrambled eggs Assorted toppings: Cooked shrimp, green beans/snow peas, thinly sliced carrots, thinly sliced cucumber, nori (dried seaweed) […]

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Noriko’s Chirashi Sushi

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Chirashi Sushi Makes 4 – 6 servings 12 inches kampyo 2 large dried shiitake mushrooms 1.25 inches lotus root 1/2 carrot, sliced into thin matchsticks (not quite julienne but close!) 10 ounces dashi 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons mirin 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 ounces sushi vinegar (if you don’t have sushi vinegar, use 3 […]

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Chef Hiro Sone’s Niku-Jaga

Memory is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to food.  I recently got a cookbook called Cooking from the Heart, a book put together by the organization Share Our Strength.  The book features recipes from one hundred of the country's well-known chefs.  The book is wonderful. Usually I love cookbooks with lots of pictures–I […]

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Kinda Corny: Homemade Candy Corn

I mentioned recently that one of my all-time favorite seasonal treats is candy corn and I make sure that we always have some in the house. A couple of you asked about candy corn, wondering what it was. So in honor of today being National Candy Corn Day (seriously, there is a holiday for everything!), […]

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Let them eat cake!

Whether or not Marie Antoinette said it, "Let them eat cake!" is the perfect title for this post.   This month's Daring Bakers challenge was Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake recipe from her book, Baking from My Home to Yours (page 250). This cake is essentially a white cake with a buttercream frosting, though there […]

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