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Roma in Late May

…too pompous. It is sometimes referred to as “the wedding cake” by foreigners and “the typewriter” by Romans. Personally, I thought it was just fine as monuments go and I’m…

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Comfort Foods

Kick-Ass Applesauce

…heritage apple trees! Needless to say, we had apple everything from early autumn until spring.  Apple pie, apple crisp, apple cookies, apple cake, baked apples, candied apples and a whole…

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Cakes

Pumpkin Tower

…lady-fingers. These delicate sponge-cake treats are useful for tiramisu, chocolate mousse cake and other specialties. Although Tony didn’t indicate his recipe should be made this way, you could line an…

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Book Reviews

The Baking Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum

…best in the world of baking: Bread, cakes, pies, tarts, pastries, and confections. Rose is known throughout the culinary industry for her meticulous attention to detail, her extensive research and…

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Book Reviews

Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts

…A mini cake tutorial; * Mini cookie tutorial. As Alice says, there’s “nothing fiddly here,” just creative, accessible recipes that are well-tested and well explained. She has also done something…

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Pop-Up Cookie Bar in NY City

…— better for my waistline I suppose though I hated missing out on a bakery’s worth of  samples of cookies, cakes and pies. I absolutely love the idea of pop-up…

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Healthy Cooking

The Best Port-Balsamic-Vanilla Glaze

…great salad dressing, it’s a quick fix for appetizers, it even works over ice cream and cake. The best part? It contains four ingredients! (Note: the curious items floating in…

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Chocolate

Nanaimo Bars

Cookie? Cake? Extreme Candy Bar? It’s hard to know how to define a Nanaimo bar with it’s cookie crust, icing filling and chocolatey topping, but whatever you call it and…

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Culinary

Double Vanilla Creme Anglaise

…how perfect it is on so many things — fresh or dried fruit compotes, slices of warm cake or pie, fresh berries, even adding its creamy deliciousness over French Toast….

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Jatropha

…variety of Jatropha produces seeds that can be roasted and eaten.  However, the seeds are more valuable for use in bio-diesel.  The press cake left over from pressing the oil…

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Cakes

Viennese Holiday Pannetone

…holes in cakes and sprinkle Kirschwasser or another favorite liqueur onto cakes, and then remove cakes from pans. When the cakes are completely cool, dust with powdered sugar. Notes Cakes…

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Recipes

What is vanilla paste?

…do you use vanilla paste? In these vanilla paste recipes! Think rich stuffed French Toast with vanilla ricotta filling, pound cake slices covered with fresh strawberries and whipped cream, very vanilla…

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