While we’re on this theme…

Wherein we continue to head in a vaguely Middle Eastern direction, with some promising initial results.
One of my stand-by choices for Sunday baking is the French yogurt cake I originally discovered on Chocolate and Zucchini, which yields grandmere levels of deliciousness from box-mix levels of effort, just the thing when I want cake now. It’s [...]

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Mid-Week Baklava

I’m still writing up this week’s Sunday baking recipe, but as an appetizer, I’m putting up the baklava I made in the middle of last week.
And why did the crazy woman make baklava in the middle of the week? Because she can, darlings!
OK, truthfully, because she defrosted phyllo over the Fourth of July weekend, [...]

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Holiday Cookie Blogging: Pistachios and Chocolate Two Ways, plus Jam Almond Diamonds

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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