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Sausage and Apple Pie: Breakfast… dessert… how about both?
Chocolate-covered pretzels. Baked Brie with apricot jam. Kettle corn. Do you taste what I’m getting at here? The juxtaposition of sweet and savory/salty isn’t some surprising new trend. Roast meats...
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Baked Doughnut Holes: it’s what’s missing that counts
I didn’t used to like baked doughnuts. I mean, isn’t the whole point of doughnuts that crisp, nicely greasy crust? That way you can taste the frying fat, along with sugar and cinnamon and other...
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Golden Stollen: Old World, meet New
Stollen. (Say “schtollen,” the word spoken with that guttural German flair which, after all, is its birthright). Dresden, Germany has been known for its stollen since at least 1474, when this classic...
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Triple Chocolate Scones: a “dark” start to Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving is SO not about chocolate. Chocolate cream pie? Maybe. But chocolate cake? Chocolate chip cookies? Chocolate ice cream? Try pecan pie, pumpkin bread, and ginger cookies. Cranberry cake....
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Gluten-Free Sourdough English Muffins: put THAT on your fork and split it!
I promised to get busy developing some yeast recipes for the sourdough starter that I introduced a few months ago and thought English muffins would be a good first challenge. I’ve had a fair...
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Sourdough Popovers: high, wide, and handsome
Popovers. Their name is almost onomatopoetic, isn’t it? (Can’t believe I spelled THAT one right on the first try!) I mean, when you put popovers into the oven, they look like calm, cream-colored...
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Baked Stuffed Cinnamon French Toast: good stuff!
This time of year, we’re all looking for the easy way out, aren’t we? Fast, easy, time-saving… holiday buzzwords all. Which is too bad. The December holidays – Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa – are all...
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Pittsburgh’s Finest Diner Pancakes: hail to the chef!
This is a story of the 2008 Presidential campaign, a diner in Pittsburgh, Google images, and a profound love of pancakes. And if that doesn’t pique your interest – you’re just not the foodie I thought...
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Gluten-Free Banana Bread with Coconut and Flax: Serious monkey business
Got banana bread? I think the question really is: “Who doesn’t have a trusty old recipe up their sleeve?” Like china sets and pieces of fine jewelry, they’re handed down through family generations,...
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English Muffins: splitting image
Why would you ever choose to make your own English muffins? Between Wolferman’s, Bays, Thomas’, and even some of the store brands, there are plenty of perfectly good English muffins out there, easy...
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Morning Glory Muffins: back to the future
Have you noticed the days getting longer? We’re 5 weeks past the shortest day of the year, and it shows – particularly in the morning, when the drive to work happens in broad daylight, rather than...
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Danish Pastry: beauty or the beast?
This is a semi-success. This is a kinda-failure. Both are delicious. Why does one go to the head of the class, the other straight to the principal’s office? File this blog post under: be careful what...
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Easter Bread: Orange you glad that spring is here?
Someone posted this joke the other day. “Why is everyone so tired on April 1?” “Because they just finished a 31-day March!” Of course I giggled; it’s a cute joke, after all. Then my brain had to kick...
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Sourdough English Muffins: from starter to beautiful finish
Do you want to know how to make ridiculously decadent and delicious eggs Benedict, start(er) to finish? Read on. Eggs Benedict, for any of you unfamiliar with this fancy breakfast favorite, is an...
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Fast, faster, fastest: From mixing bowl to table in under 35 minutes
What’s the biggest thing that stops you from baking? Lack of inspiration? I doubt it. For most of us, the usual mantra is “So many recipes, so little time…” AH-HA! “So little time.” Between work,...
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Gluten-Free Blueberry Coffeecake: another magic mix miracle
So, it’s breakfast time again. You’re tired of cereal, the yogurt has expired, the waffle iron needs the old grease scraped out of its crannies from the last time you used it, and your children utter...
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Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Rolls: from store-bought to homemade
“I could do that.” Who among us, upon walking into a bakery, up and down the aisles at the supermarket, or past the stands at a farmers’ market hasn’t looked at [bread, pie, cake, muffins, cookies...]...
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White Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls: like a flash, like a vision burnt across the...
Cinnamon rolls, cinnamon buns, cinnamon swirl bread, I love it all. Sinking your teeth into a fresh, warm cinnamon roll is one of the best experiences on earth. That’s why I was feeling so guilty…...
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Simply Sinful Cinnamon Muffins: a real square deal
Simply sinful. Now if that’s not a culinary come-on, I don’t know what is. Considering this signature spice’s spicy/sweet, fiery nature, is it any wonder that “sin” and the first syllable of CINnamon...
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Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls: gluten-free dough is finally taking shape!
What would you do for a warm, gooey cinnamon roll with sweet icing melting down the sides? Before you were gluten-free, this may have been an easy fix: head to your local bakery, run to grandma’s...
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