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Salad for lunch, cookies for dinner: Peanut butter chocolate chip biscuits

January 15, 2014 By Katrina

Salad for lunch, cookies for dinner: Peanut butter chocolate chip biscuits

Well, we’ve made it through the season of sweets, and now my blog reader and Pinterest feed are filled with fancy salads, whole grains and about seven gazillion paleo recipes. I suppose January is the time for all of that. It’s out with the, “Eat what you want because it’s Christmastime, y’all!” and in with…

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Salty, sweet, gone: Chocolate-pistachio sables

November 22, 2013 By Katrina

Salty, sweet, gone: Chocolate-pistachio sables

If the recipe list on my blog is any indication, I’m a pretty big fan of cookies. They’re my favorite dessert (aside from ice cream) and my go-to baked good for pretty much any occasion. Dinner with friends? Cookies. Housewarming party? Cookies. Something to take to work? Cookies. I’m staying home the entire day with…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, Bon Appetit, chocolate, chocolate pistachio sables, Christmas, cookies, dessert, food, fresh from the oven, holidays, pistachio, sables

Eat like a monkey: Ginger(monkey)bread

October 10, 2013 By Katrina

Eat like a monkey: Ginger(monkey)bread

The first time I ate monkey bread was for breakfast at a school friend’s sleepover when I was 12 years old. I remember watching, fascinated, as her mom cut Pillsbury Grands biscuits into six pieces each, rolled the dough into balls and then dunked them into a bath of butter and cinnamon sugar before layering…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, Christmas, cinnamon, dessert, food, fresh from the oven, ginger bread, gingerbread, holidays, monkey bread, recipes, Thanksgiving

Delicious endings: Easy chocolate sugar cookies

June 26, 2013 By Katrina

Delicious endings: Easy chocolate sugar cookies

I’m pretty sure that cookies are one of life’s great triumphs — at least in the world of dessert. Where else are you going to find a sweet that’s so universally loved? A treat that can be baked quickly, travel easily and please grandparents and toddlers alike? They’re like the stuff of fairy tales, really….

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, chocolate, chocolate sugar cookies, cookies, dessert, easy recipes, food, Martha Stewart, sugar cookies, vegetarian

Once-a-year twice-baked cherry pie

June 11, 2013 By Katrina

Once-a-year twice-baked cherry pie

Second only to the just-add-water blueberry muffins that I proudly baked during my earliest days of kitchen duty, cherry pie spent a good many years atop my menu of signature dishes. Of course, this was cherry pie by way of an 8-year-old chef in the mid-’90s, which basically meant a skillful combination of two newly…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts Tagged With: baking, cherries, cherry pie, dessert, desserts, food, fresh from the oven, Melissa Clark, pie, Thanksgiving, twice-baked cherry pie

Strawberry tarts forever

May 31, 2013 By Katrina

Strawberry tarts forever

Our farmers market basket overfloweth! It’s a happy problem indeed, though it’s one that necessitates a rather concentrated effort to cook, bake and nibble our way through the abundance of produce as fast as our tummies can take us. Our kitchen always feels more creative in the warmer months because we tend to do a…

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Of markets and merriment: Vintage breakfast puffs

May 28, 2013 By Katrina

Of markets and merriment: Vintage breakfast puffs

On Saturday morning, we rounded up the gang and headed to the Durham Farmers Market to pick up some fresh produce and enjoy some fresh air. It really was a perfect morning weather-wise: a breezy low 60s with plenty of sunshine. Beany loves to be outside, and we were all do for dose of open…

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Birthdays and Banana Blondies

May 23, 2013 By Katrina

Birthdays and Banana Blondies

When it comes to birthdays, I tend to follow a celebrate-for-a-week-to-really-get-your-day’s-worth motto. Although I half expected age (aka turning into an adult) to stifle my zeal for stretching out the celebration, it hasn’t at all. I start getting excited about it weeks before and still feel like a kid on the day after Christmas as…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, banana blondies, bananas, bars, blondies, chocolate-crusted banana blondies, cookies, dessert, food, fresh from the oven, Melissa Clark, New York Times

Timers? Sweets? Huzzah! Sour cherry maple muffins

April 30, 2013 By Katrina

Timers? Sweets? Huzzah! Sour cherry maple muffins

Although I do from time to time dream of the day when I’ll set a grand table and serve a Norman Rockwell-inspired meal amidst oohs and ahs from family and friends, most of the dishes and desserts that come from our kitchen are served to a gracious though not unusually enthusiastic audience — until last…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, cherries, cherry muffins, dessert, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, maple, maple cherry muffins, maple muffins, muffins, yogurt

Fun and fancy’s not free: Cardamom and currant snickerdoodles

April 23, 2013 By Katrina

Fun and fancy’s not free: Cardamom and currant snickerdoodles

The other day Jared sent me a New York Times article about Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook, It’s All Good. The title of the article is “Healthy Eating on Just $300 a Day,” and talks about how, because of oft exotic dishes and a call to use the best of the best ingredients at every turn,…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cardamom, cardamom and currant snickerdoodles, Christmas cards, cookies, currants, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, snickerdoodles

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