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happy 100th julia child!

Julia Child would have been 100 today.  PBS Digital Studios did this fun tribute. In celebration of her 100th birthday, Julia Child Remixed by John D. Boswell,  for PBS Digital Studios. Please support...

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just bananas/just desserts

Ok, what happens when I am supposed to be resting on a sprained ankle? I get restless. The result: Banana Cake with Banana Buttercream Frosting. (I had leftover bananas to use up ) Banana Cake: 350...

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do you dream in buttercream?

Well I don’t actually  dream in buttercream, but it makes for a jazzy sounding post title. So I have been working and working on a buttercream frosting worthy of posting and I accomplished it with a...

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roasted butternut squash soup

October = Fall = start of soup season.  I like butternut squash soup.  Mine is different because I roast my squash (roasted vegetables add more depth to soups) and I add garam masala, mace and ginger,...

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as american as apple pie

So the other day when I posted a photo of a pie I baked on my Facebook page, I had NO idea I would get so many requests via e-mail for the recipe.   I baked an apple pie with raisins soaked in Calvados...

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hint to clare: buy a nespresso machine

So a while ago I wrote that West Vincent Supervisor Clare Quinn was going into the cafe-hospitality-bakery business. Well, apparently Tacie’s is open.  I encourage everyone to go because West Vincent...

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risotto with caramelized onions, chicken, and mushrooms

I love risotto.  It takes a bit of time to do it right, but so worth it.  Here is a recipe I have been doing for years.  It has lived in my head because the impetus for it came from one I ate growing...

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oh my! blueberry pie!

Preheat oven to 375° I have given you basic pie dough recipes before, and they are on the blog. Sometimes even I take a shortcut- If I do not feel like rolling my own dough out, I purchase Marie...

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farmers’ market couscous

Market inspired summer salad- my own recipe (but I am digging the 3 cookbooks I picked up on the cookbook swap at East Goshen Farmers’ Market last week) Anyway farmers market summer couscous salad:I...

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quince-apple butter

I don’t do much jelly and jam making (yet), but I love “butters”. Pumpkin butter, apple butter, peach butter, pear butter, and now quince-apple butter. My friend Meredith had given me a lovely basket...

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white chocolate cinnamon cookies with oatmeal

This is my new recipe for Christmas 2014. The cookies are very cinnamony, chewy, and soft. The white chocolate adds a mellow sweetness and the cinnamon chips enhance the cinnamon flavor of the cookie....

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quiche with ham, broccoli, and spinach….and a side of teenager

Yes….how to get more vegetables into your teenager. Of course my teenager has just decreed that he’s not eating any quiche. (Deep breath…..deep breath…..) As parents is incredibly frustrating when you...

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coffee butterscotch bread pudding

Winter means comfort food desserts as well as comfort food entrees. Here’s an easy bread pudding that you will like. My friend Linda makes homemade extracts so I use her coffee extract in this and I...

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oh my easter pies!

Savory Easter Pie I was inspired by my friend Lisa DePaulo’s mom’s Easter Pizza recipe, but didn’t have everything on hand to make that recipe.  So I took my recent Ricotta Pie recipe and adapted it…to...

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cooking gnocchi with mushrooms

I ended up having some people over for dinner last night.  So I butterflied a big roaster chicken and roasted Julia Child style simply with fresh herbs (you can see the chicken in the photo at the...

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turkey corn curry soup

….Or what to do with the leftover broth from the neck and giblets from the Thanksgiving turkey. The great soup experiment – Took the Thanksgiving turkey broth and strained all the stuff out of it and...

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summer recipe back to basics: purple coleslaw

I have been remiss. I haven’t blogged any recipes lately. This evening for dinner we were grilling marinated chicken thighs and my neighbor had given me a beautiful head of purple cabbage so I decided...

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quince-apple butter

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