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Following the recipe, instead of my instincts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

I have this taste memory of some kind of prune bar that my Grandma Mollie made. We didn’t like much of her cooking, it was too different from what our mom fed us, but I loved her cheese blintzes and these bars. They were square bars that she stored in a tin, and in my [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend

Monday, May 31, 2010

On Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, we grilled. John got ahold of my $250 fixed lens, and stuck it on his $3000 Canon digital camera body, and documented the process.

Memorial Day Weekend

I made old favorites but with a few differences. Like the honey baked beans, that I usually make with bacon, were vegetarian, but I [...]

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Portfolio Slideshow

Friday, May 7, 2010

This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago.
And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like rhubarb [...]

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Overflowing mini banana cupcakes

Thursday, April 15, 2010

I used the Grandma’s Banana Cake recipe from Classic Home Desserts, by the late Richard Sax, one of my fave cook books. It’s supposed to be baked in a tube pan, so I should have known to really UNDER-fill the muffin cups – because it’s a cake batter that really needs the support of the [...]

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A nice idea, but ….

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Somehow, I ended up with way too much sour cream in the fridge – I think the chain of events started with buying Costco lettuce for the brunch last Sunday, a.k.a. more than I needed, so I served salad at the dinner last Tuesday, instead of spinach dip, and because I had a coupon, I [...]

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Redeemed …

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Well sort of. Since November, I had the last two butternut squash sitting in the basement, waiting to be cooked. I was going to peel, cube, and roast them for pizza with caramelized onions and goat cheese for a cookie party appetizer, but it seemed just too hard to deal with cubing squash while I [...]

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