Archive for the ‘Bread’ Category

Bran Muffins.

25Oct11

Bran muffins are good, just ask Jerry Garcia. Click here for the recipe and to read more.


When the White Chocolate Pretzel Peanut Butter Spread is gone, it’ll be the lowest point thus far in your eating career, no exceptions.  There will never be such a void.  Never a valley so deep, chasm so wide, but most importantly, never a jar so empty.  And you’ll look too, you’ll look deep into the [...]

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So about cheese. It’s good, really good. From cheddar to Gruyere, Brie to blue, the only cheese I’ve ever met that I disliked was Stilton, straight out of the little ceramic pot. That was back when I was 10 years old. I likened eating Stilton to eating poop off the floor. Mature, yes, and also [...]

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My heart is broken.  In fact, it is twice broken, both times at the hands of baked goods.  The first instance of breakage was after the discovery that my beloved Great Harvest Bread Company of Evanston, IL on Central St. is in fact just one franchise of a national company.  The coziness, the steamy windows [...]

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There were two things about this tart that I immediately disliked when I read the recipe.  The first, and probably most important, is that I hate fruit.  Hate is, yes, a strong word that really should be reserved for enemies and evildoers, but I’ll just come out and repeat it.  I hate fruit.  For me, [...]

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When things come in groups, especially ingredients, I often find that using just one component of the group leaves the others a little dejected.  So while, yes, this does fall under the category of personification of ingredients and the occasional normal chat—or two—one may have with their foodstuffs, I’d like to submit that it’s really [...]

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I really have to apologize.  I’m really, truly, sorry.  So sorry, it’s embarrassing.  You see, I’ve let you down.  I heralded this Babka recipe as the best, the ultimate, the be-all and end-all of the best babushka-made Jewish food product.  But I was wrong, so very, very wrong. Don’t worry though, this Babka recipe, right [...]

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I’ll give one thing to the Midwest—fall’s a pretty good thing.  You know, the piles of red-gold leaves, everything changing colors and shifting towards warm, earthy tones, that clear, crisp fall air.  It’s really all true, these things you hear.  Now, I’m not admitting to a total conversion, but, but, if for some reason—say college—you [...]

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By some strange coincidence, all of my cousins are Jewish while my grandparents and my immediate family remain in some state of religious denial with exceptions, of course, for all the festivities and foods.  We’ve had parsnip latkes for Christmas, sugar candies for Boys and Girls days, challah braiding lessons, matzo ball soup making, and [...]



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