Alton, We Need to Talk.

Didn’t I just equate your lava muffin recipe with divinity?  Haven’t I been your biggest fan since your very first episode, in a burning-adoration-from-afar, entirely nonthreatening, restraining-order-free, totally un-Kathy Bates way? Didn’t I even forgive you for the exercise in self-indulgent whimsy that was your functionally useless book, the first cookbook I have ever in [...]

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Sidewalk Table and Jacarandas Not Included

This week’s Sunday sweets blogging was partly pantry-clearing and partly nostalgia-tripping.
For our anniversary last year, His Lordship and I took a greatly-postponed honeymoon trip to Argentina. The idea was to show him where I came from, visit my pasta-producing grandmother, and consume unseemly quantities of amazing — and amazingly cheap — local food products, [...]

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Brownie Manifesto

If the chocolate chip cookie is the quintessential All-American Cookie, the brownie is its somewhat edgy and disreputable but tolerantly adored younger sibling. The chocolate chip is crisp and buttery and enjoyable, but no amount of tinkering with a chocolate chip cookie will make it seem anything less than wholesomely straightforward. The brownie, on the [...]

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