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Baking for Bear: Gluten-free peanut butter cookies

August 23, 2017 By Katrina

Baking for Bear: Gluten-free peanut butter cookies

Have you ever noticed how cookies offer a solid answer to so many of life’s questions? What are you bringing to the preschool Valentine’s Day party? Cookies. Quick! I need something to take to the dinner tonight! What does everyone like? Cookies. What dessert can feed a crowd? Cookies. You look like you’ve had a hard day. How can…

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Filed Under: Cookies Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, egg free, gluten free, peanut butter, peanut butter cookies, recipes, wheat free

Worth the Effort: Pain Aux Raisins

January 21, 2016 By Katrina

Worth the Effort: Pain Aux Raisins

We’ve been told time and again that hard work is worth the effort, but here’s the real deal: Some things aren’t always worth the effort. Wrangling two kids into coats and hats to traipse through a foot of snow to go buy diapers when Amazon two-day shipping is just so free? Not worth it. Getting…

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Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: bakery, baking, Boston, brunch, cookbook, Flour, food, fresh from the oven, pain aux raisins, pastry, recipes

Summer Market Risotto

August 3, 2015 By Katrina

Summer Market Risotto

Ah, summer farmers markets. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning, especially when the weather’s nice and the stands are overflowing with such great stuff. And even if it’s a little too sticky outside to be comfortable, the bounty is usually worth it. No, it’s always worth it. I’d walk…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: arborio, dinner, farmers market, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, market, recipes, rice, risotto, seasonal, summer

Farm, Family and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

July 21, 2015 By Katrina

Farm, Family and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

The dog days of summer are here, folks, and as much as I dread the hot and sticky season for its extreme hot and stickiness, I love what it means for family time. We just returned from a nearly five-week trek around the Midwest, two kids and a puppy in tow, and my heart is…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts Tagged With: baking, dessert, food, pie, recipes, rhubarb, strawberry, summer

Becoming Bread Makers: Awesome Everyday Bread

April 6, 2015 By Katrina

Becoming Bread Makers: Awesome Everyday Bread

Years ago, I think during his early college days, my older brother took up bread making. Every so often when he came home from school for the weekend, he’d stay up into the wee hours of the morning baking loaves of a simple honey wheat bread. I say simple, but the process always seemed pretty…

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Filed Under: Bread, Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, basic bread, bread, breakfast, brunch, everyday bread, food, fresh from the oven, honey wheat bread, recipes

Dessert Fix: 20-Minute Apple Turnovers

February 2, 2015 By Katrina

Dessert Fix: 20-Minute Apple Turnovers

Some days are just ho hum, and you need a pick-me-up to turn things around. That, my friends, is when you must head to the kitchen. No, I’m not encouraging you to eat your feelings (though a once-in-a-while ice-cream binge never really hurt anyone, right?). But I am encouraging you to pour those feelings into…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts Tagged With: apple turnovers, apples, baking, breakfast, brunch, dessert, easy recipes, fast recipe, food, Food52, recipes, turnovers

Beany’s Goodnight (Funfetti) Cookies!

December 2, 2014 By Katrina

Beany’s Goodnight (Funfetti) Cookies!

Recipe development can be a precarious business, filled with ups and downs, wasted ingredients and way too many dishes to count. Some of us overthink things. Some of us underthink things. And some recipes are just downright flops. (Note to self: There is a such thing as too much cinnamon.) Some people, though, seem to…

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Filed Under: Cookies, Fresh from the oven, Life Tagged With: baking, cookies, dessert, family, food, fresh from the oven, funfetti, goodnight cookies, kids, parenting, recipes, sugar cookies

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

October 17, 2014 By Katrina

Dinner in a pinch, made to impress! Puff pastry with ham & Gruyère

This time of year is so, so hectic (though we probably always feel like our lives are crazy busy, right?). When I think of an easy fall dinner, I often base its viability on a simple pre-trick-or-treating test. Basically, is it something that could be easily made and quickly served to a family (friends included!)…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Easy Weeknight Dinners, Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs, Pizza/Sandwiches Tagged With: appetizers, autumn, baking, brunch, cheese, dinner, easy recipes, fall, fall recipes, food, Gruyere, ham, ham and cheese, ham and Gruyere in puff pastry, lunch, puff pastry, recipes, side dishes, weeknight meal

Tarts are for dreamers: Blueberry nectarine tarts

September 16, 2014 By Katrina

Tarts are for dreamers: Blueberry nectarine tarts

I think most people, buried in the to-do lists of their day-to-day lives, probably have some sort of pipe dream, an “I’ll do this someday when life slows down and the timing is right” sort of thing, that they keep coming back to when day jobs get too busy, overwhelming or stressful, and they just…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pies/Tarts Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, blueberries, blueberry tart, breakfast, brunch, dessert, food, Food52, fresh from the oven, fruit, fruit tart, nectarine, nectarine tart, peach, peach tart, recipes, summer, tarts

Top 5 strawberry recipes for summer

July 3, 2014 By Katrina

Top 5 strawberry recipes for summer

We eat strawberries nearly every day of the year in our house because Beany and I can’t get enough of them, but summer strawberries are by far the best of the bunch. They are amazingly juicy, amazingly sweet and amazingly not $5 a quart right now. So strike while those fields are hot! In honor…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: baking, dessert, food, Fourth of July, fresh from the oven, recipes, strawberries, strawberry jam, strawberry muffins, strawberry sorbet, strawberry tart, summer

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