Archive for June, 2009

PPCB Ice Cream

30Jun09

PPCB Ice Cream or Pecan Praline Caramel Brownie Ice Cream.  A delicious mouthful…. Ice cream is my favorite dessert, but most of the times I make it at home it is by accident.  This particular ice cream happened because of a mysteriously underdone pan of brownies, underdone to the point in which one could call [...]


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Bakewell Tart

27Jun09

The British have a way of naming food that hide any clues of what it they could possibly contain.  But as far as a Bakewell Tart goes—June’s Daring Baker’s challenge—the name is at least halfway helpful.  It’s a tart.  Yes, it could be savory or it could be sweet, but at least one can bet [...]


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Oh Almond.

22Jun09

First there were marzipan chocolates.  Then there were Seven-Layer Rainbow Cookies and frangipane tarts.  But now, now there are Almond Butter Bars.  The faint lingering of almond delight left behind by the others pale in comparison to the inch and a half stack, unadulterated pure goodness of these bars.  What’s that, you like those others?  [...]


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A preview….

20Jun09

What could these be used for?  Fresh from a Saturday morning Farmer’s Market, these cherries would be excellent in pie, jam, a tart..


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The Dip’s It.

20Jun09

To say my family likes hummus would be a large understatement.  Of the three cups of hummus made Wednesday night after dinner, by lunchtime today, Friday, not a bit remains.  Not a smear is left in the Tupperware, not a smudge.  One couldn’t get even the minuscule hummus remnant onto a pita chip, let alone [...]


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Sandwich Optional.

18Jun09

When I came home this year for Thanksgiving, I had one mission to complete—return with large amounts of baked goods. In college apparently, one of the biggest commodities is the ability to produce and deliver home-baked, (or at least hand-baked), goods. As it turned out, the week following Thanksgiving was ‘reading week’ or the ‘dead’ [...]


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First thing in the morning, back from college. Cherry-Cranberry Scones.

13Jun09

“Cake?  Cake?” “Cookies?  Cookies?” 7:40 a.m. in the blue morning light, the first sound would be the beginnings of coffee.  The fridge being pried open, the lid twisting off a jar, and the cascading clinks of the beans.  The delayed aromatics follow as the beans are ground and shook out into the coffee pot.  Five [...]


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Brooklyn Blackout. The. Birthday Cake.

12Jun09

The great thing about cake, this cake and really any other cake, are the endless frosting and filling possibilities.  Sure, the cake is great.  This one especially—dense while at the same time being fluffy, chocolaty but not too sweet, tender and moist— it’s a great cake.  But really, if one bakes a three-layer cake, it’s [...]


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