Category: Desserts
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Christmas is sneaking up on us unusually quickly this year. Or maybe it does this every year and every year I am surprised anew at how caught unawares I am. You'd think, by now, that the relentless reliability of it wouldn't quite discombobulate me so much, but it does. To make sure that gifts arrive…
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I have this thing about fruit. If it's fresh – and good, you know, the kind that simply glows with flavor, zings on your tongue – then all I can do is eat it fresh and raw, out of hand. Cooking it feels like I'm spoiling the whole point. Jams, pies, compotes – they're more…
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It’s time for another Role Reversal post, courtesy of Moriah of Where I’m Cooking From. Despite the pedigree of the recipe’s creator and the fact that her other recipe went over so fantastically well over here, I had high hopes for this dessert, alluringly named Caramel Coulant. Unfortunately, well, I’ll just let you keep reading:…
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The first results of my Role Reversal experiment are in! Bonnie Small, of Savoir-Flaire, did us the honors of trying Golden Apple Triangles, published in the New York Times a few years ago, along with an article on quick and easy Thanksgiving desserts. Bonnie says, "Golden apple triangles were easy to make and good to…
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I always thought cheesecake was one of those inarguably beloved foods, like expertly prepared French fries or the perfect baguette or the tender oysters of a roast chicken, plucked delicately from the carcass. But in a highly unscientific study I did a few weeks ago, I discovered something quite to the contrary. It turns out…
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After sitting glumly on my butcher block for the past three weeks, my dryish Israeli dates – cast aside in favor of their juicy, more voluptuous sisters - were finally used this weekend and, like an 80's movie wallflower in a pink dress at a long-awaited prom, they bloomed and shone. You all offered up…
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I'll just start this post by saying that, after taking a few bites of this squash pie last night, my friend Andy put down his fork and said, "This is the best dessert I ever ate." He then picked up his fork again, and through bites said I could quote him, in fact that…
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It's been five days since I turned 30. It'll be four days until I leave for Brussels. Seven to Christmas, nine to when I get to Berlin, thirteen until 2008, and sixteen until I'm all the way back here again, sitting at my desk, waiting for Ben to come home. I've got a lot of…
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Oooh, the frustration! It burns, it burns. Man! Here I was, absolutely inundated with beets, I mean, beets coming out of my ears, beets in the crisper, beets on the stove, beets in a Tupperware hidden in the office fridge, beets, beets, beets. My CSA had a glut of beets, you see. They actually called…
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In the blink of an eye, my melancholy about the end of summer evaporated – poof! – like the puff of steam rising off a cup of coffee in the cold. I think it might have something to do with our Sunday – the day that started out with cozy, chocolate-studded rolls on the couch,…
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