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NYC and the Window Washer

January 14, 2015 By Katrina

NYC and the Window Washer

So many recipes to post. So many photos to edit. This is the year I will catch up! In the meantime, there’s this photo. I’ve been calling it The Window Washer. One week in a hotel in Princeton, New Jersey, and Beany never ran out of things to do. Kids are great that way. And then…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, Life Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas tree, family, family photography, hotel, kid photography, kids, life, motherhood, new york city, new york times essential cookbook, NYC, photography, photos, rockefeller center, tree

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

Project NYT: Spice krinkles

February 7, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Spice krinkles

I’ve spent most of my adult life as a bake-by-photos kind of girl. No, I don’t mean that I ignore textual instructions and base my cooking exclusively on what I see (though that could be a mighty fun and/or terrible idea), but when it comes to wooing my culinary curiosity with winning recipes, delicious photos…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, cookies, dessert, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, spice cookies, spice krinkles

Project NYT: Molasses cupcakes with lemon icing

February 1, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Molasses cupcakes with lemon icing

Like most people, I definitely have my favorite flavors. Cinnamon, vanilla, anything citrusy: I always tend to gravitate toward recipes that incorporate the tastes that I love. More often than not, those recipes call for expected combinations: cinnamon with nutmeg and vanilla, lemon with fresh berries, rolled oats with brown sugar. They’re classic combos because…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: baking, cupcakes, dessert, lemon, lemon icing, molasses, molasses cupcakes, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT

Project NYT: What’s up, Butternut?

January 31, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: What’s up, Butternut?

Around our house (and probably a lot of yours, too), winter weather means soup weather. Fortunately, considering the piles of cold and snowiness we’ve been hit with this season, there’s no shortage of classics to pull out or new recipes to try. Whether it’s time-tested favorites like tomato or chicken noodle or new spins like…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Soups/Stews/Chili Tagged With: brunch, butternut squash soup, cooking, lunch, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, recipe, side dishes, soup

Project NYT: Baking from honey-dipped memories

January 25, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Baking from honey-dipped memories

Food is a funny thing. On the one hand, it comes equipped with so many quantifiable qualities: vitamins, nutrients, calories and ingredients. On the other hand, so much of what we eat and how we eat is tied to much less tangible traits: what we know, whom we know and what we remember. Food has…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, honey, honey spice cookies, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, recipes

Project NYT: Nostalgia and the 67-year-old brownie

January 19, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Nostalgia and the 67-year-old brownie

My quest for the perfect homemade brownie continued last night, and I dare say I might have found a winner. Hidden nearly 700 pages deep, in the “Cookies and Candy” section of my NYT Cookbook, there lies an incredibly simple, back-to-basics type of recipe that sounded like just the kind of the thing I was…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, brownies, chocolate, dessert, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT

Project NYT: Oatmeal, meet Cookie. Om, nom, nom.

January 12, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Oatmeal, meet Cookie. Om, nom, nom.

Dried oats are pretty amazing when you think about it. With little more than a dot of water and sprinkle of brown sugar, they’re an automatic breakfast. Roast them with dried fruit and maple syrup or honey, and your granola wishes are fulfilled. Add some butter, sugar, flour, eggs and raisins, and you’ve brought them…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, dried oats, new york times essential cookbook, oatmeal raisin cookies, Project NYT, raisiins, recipe

Project NYT: Apple coffee cake

January 3, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Apple coffee cake

Typically, I’ve never been one to go for reduced-fat or sugar-free kinds of labels, but a few years ago I tried the reduced-fat cinnamon swirl coffee cake at Starbucks and found it to be a pretty delish little baked good. On further consideration, I realized that reduced-fat probably just eliminates a dot of the butter…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Muffins/Cakes/Custards Tagged With: apple coffee cake, apples, baking, breakfast, brunch, coffee cake, dessert, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, recipes

Project NYT: Julia et Katrina?

December 27, 2010 By Katrina

La, la, la laaaaaa! Behold Amanda Hesser’s New York Times Essential Cookbook, the monster of a cookbook I’ve been eyeing for the past few months, brought to Jared and me this Christmas from the man in red. Woo hoo! I am beyond excited to crack it open and get started. And with 932 pages of…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: cookbook, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, recipes

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