Raspberry Truffles

March 21, 2010
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Lemon Meringues

March 15, 2010
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Until recently I never really understood meringues. The ones I had encountered just tasted sweet and crunchy without a lot of flavor. Why would I choose that when there was a perfectly good chocolate chip cookie sitting next to it on the cookie platter? It is the obvious choice for Passover but I have never […]

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Buttered Rum Meltaways

March 8, 2010
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Whoever is in charge of book layout at the local Barnes and Noble outsmarted me again. Carefully placed next to the escalator to the kids section was a table with both Martha Stewart’s Cookies and Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes. Since my son likes to play by himself with the trains while I sit and watch (he […]

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Strawberry Covered Passion Fruit Marshmallow

February 28, 2010
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Welcome to my new site! I finally decided that it was time to make the leap from blogger to wordpress and decided to to a major redesign in the process. A million thanks to Barbara from Kinetic Webs for all her design and programming help. If you were following my blog using an rss feed […]

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Cranberry and White Chocolate Hamentashen

February 24, 2010
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The fall of my senior year of college my roommate went to a New England Cranberry festival and returned with a ten pound crate of cranberries. We, of course, took one look at that huge crate, decided it was not enough, and ordered two more. Then we spent the rest of the year coming up […]

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Chocolate and Peanut Butter: Not Your Bubbe’s Hamentashen

February 22, 2010
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Although in my family we are partial to the traditional flavors of hamentashen (we all love poppyseed) I can’t help but play around with new fillings every year. Not everyone is thrilled to get only poppyseed hamentashen in their Mishloach Manot and I like to provide our friends with interesting varieties they won’t be getting […]

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Whole Wheat Muffins

February 17, 2010
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I am always on the lookout for good healthy muffin recipes, chock full of whole wheat goodness. They are great to have in the freezer to grab for a quick breakfast or snack on the way to the gym because, frankly, my standard low-carb choices don’t give me the energy I need to make it […]

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Burnt Caramel Ice Cream

February 10, 2010
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As I look out the window and see more than 6 inches of snow and know that the brunt of the storm is yet to come might seem more appropriate to post about something like hot chocolate. Or warm rice pudding. But I love ice cream in any weather. I’ve even been known to eat […]

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Heavenly Bakers: True Orange Genoise Cake

February 8, 2010
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I have to admit that this week’s cake was not my favorite. I loved the Seville orange curd but the cake itself was a bit dry. Maybe I didn’t put enough of the syrup, but I think I would have liked it better as a three layer cake with two layers of the curd to […]

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Lemon Macadamia Nut Cookies

February 5, 2010
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There is nothing like reorganizing the pantry to set me going in the kitchen. I have a bad habit of making shopping lists without checking the pantry first and then buying things impulsively when I am in the store. That is why in the reorganization I found things like three entire bags of dried chick […]

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Gramercy Tavern Gingerbread

February 1, 2010
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This recipe, originally published in Gourmet magazine in Feburary 2000, has caught my attention several times over the years but for one reason or another I never got around to making it. I even bought the beer to make it more than a year ago and then it just sat in the liquor cabinet because […]

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