If you saw these lumpy, fuzzy, brown-splotched things in the bargain bin of your local market for $1.50 a bag, you’d think their next stop was the compost heap and you’d walk right past, wouldn’t you?
Oh, but you’d be wrong. Sadly, sadly wrong, since these less-than-beauteous things are quinces, and pretty is utterly irrelevant when [...]
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It’s been about a billion degrees Fahrenheit with equivalent levels of humidity here, so it’s not the ideal time to be baking. Still, expectations have been created at the office for Monday morning treats, and a friend was throwing a wine tasting dinner and had asked us to bring dessert, so the oven was going [...]
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Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, Signature Dishes, tagged almonds, biscotti, Cacao Nibs, chocolate, cookies, jam, pistachios on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My official policy is that the holidays are not over until I say they are, and I generally don’t say they are until after my birthday at the end of January, so there’s still time for holiday cookie baking as far as I’m concerned.
Depending on how organized I am in any given year, I launch [...]
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As I mentioned previously, one of my finds at the farmer’s market this weekend was rhubarb, another later-in-life love. I don’t think I ever had it until well into adulthood, but as with cranberries, I fell hard and completely, and when it’s in season, I snatch up all I can and freeze some for the [...]
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