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Irish brown soda bread

March 1, 2011 By Katrina

Irish brown soda bread

My older brother has pretty mean (and by mean, I mean awesome) bread-making skills. I can’t remember when exactly he started refining his craft, but the bread-making has been a semi-annual summer and/or Christmastime event (basically every time he comes back to visit) since well before I graduated college. I’m also not quite sure what…

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Filed Under: Bread, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, bread, breakfast, brunch, food52.com, Irish brown soda bread, Merrill Stubbs, recipes, soda bread

Project NYT: Flat-and-chewy chocolate chip cookies

February 28, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Flat-and-chewy chocolate chip cookies

For most of my life, I’ve defined cookie perfection based on a few standard characteristics: taste (that’s a given), texture (which depends on the cookie kind) and overall fluffiness (fluffy = good; fluffier = better). Although I dabble in a lot of cookie making, I always come back to these traits as signatures of success,…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, bittersweet chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, dessert, Essential New York Times Cookbook, Project NYT, recipes

Project NYT: Brown sugar shortbread

February 25, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Brown sugar shortbread

I am a major coffee fan, but there are some foods that demand a right cup of tea rather than my usual cup of Joe. Shortbread is definitely one of those foods. It’s such a slightly sweet, slightly crisp, delicate as all get-out kind of cookie, it just seems wrong to overshadow its subtle flavor…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, brown sugar, brown sugar shortbread, cookies, dessert, Essential New York Times Cookbook, Project NYT, recipes, shortbread

You’re welcome, houseguest: Butternut sage scones

February 23, 2011 By Katrina

You’re welcome, houseguest: Butternut sage scones

I’ve decided after yesterday that risotto is to cooking as scones are to baking. Yes, they might seem intimidating at first. Yes, it takes a little work to prepare them properly. Yes, they seem much more complicated than they actually are. And yes, the extra effort you put into them will result in a delicious…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baked goods, baking, breakfast, brunch, butternut squash, butternut squash scones, dessert, food52.com, recipes, sage, scones

Project NYT: Purple plum torte

February 21, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Purple plum torte

What a good girl am I. Yes, that is a plum pun. Plum funny, isn’t it? I’ve been itching to make this plum torte from the Essential New York Times Cookbook since last October, when I saw Amanda Hesser whip it up in no time flat on the Today Show. Actually, it was that recipe…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, breakfast, brunch, dessert, Essential New York Times Cookbook, plum torte, recipes, torte

Pumpkin muffin experiment

February 16, 2011 By Katrina

Pumpkin muffin experiment

Despite my self-assuredness (and great relief) that I’d never again have need to enter a science class upon graduation from college, I’ve found myself in quite the experimental mood lately. A few weeks ago, my friend April suggested here on the blog that I try adding some brown sugar loveliness to my pumpkin cake recipe,…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brown sugar, brunch, dessert, muffins, pumpkin muffins, recipes, whole wheat

Sometimes love is sweet: Valentine linzer cookies

February 11, 2011 By Katrina

Sometimes love is sweet: Valentine linzer cookies

Valentine’s Day is Monday, and love is most certainly in the air. My good friends welcomed their new baby last night (love, love, love!) and Ella has met a new puppy friend that she seems quite smitten with. There’s all sorts of happy going on these days, and nothing says “I love life,” or “Love…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, linzer cookies, Real Simple, recipes, sandwich cookies

Delicious distractions

February 10, 2011 By Katrina

Delicious distractions

Wednesday afternoon was a first for me. As I sat at my desk and typed away on work-related odds and ends, I clicked on my Twitter feed just as @food52 tweeted about this week’s wildcard winner on their site. Normally I don’t have any trouble clicking back and forth between Twitter updates and the task…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, dessert, food52.com, lemon, lemon cake, lemon custard, lemon sponge cups, recipes, souffle

Feeling cold, tasting spring: Lemon olive oil cake

February 9, 2011 By Katrina

Feeling cold, tasting spring: Lemon olive oil cake

Yesterday felt like the coldest day of the year. I think the high hovered somewhere near 16, and the wind chill prompted atypical alerts about dangerously cold winds and frostbite possibilities on my trusty Weather Channel app. Normally, this sort of bone-chilling weather would lead me toward the soup section of a cookbook, or at…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, cake, dessert, fresh from the oven, gourmet, lemon, lemon olive oil cake, olive oil cake, recipes

Project NYT: Parmesan crackers, no boxes allowed

February 8, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Parmesan crackers, no boxes allowed

In the short while since I started this blog, the words made from scratch have taken on such new meaning to me. It’s no longer just about following a recipe or venturing beyond the boxed cake mix. Rather, it’s about taking even the simplest of foods and reducing them to their bare bones ingredients: the…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Snacks Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, brunch, cooking, new york times essential cookbook, Parmesan crackers, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian

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