March 2008

Baked Goods

Blond Ambition Cookies Recipe

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Today I decided to make these blond cookies based on the old style chewy molasses cookies. It started with my curiousity for sweetened condensed milk and how it could be utilized in other ways (i.e. I’ve seen SO many dulce de leche things lately that I’m no longer curious about making it). I figured it [...]

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Baked Goods

Ciabatta Bread (in less than 5 hours)

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I’ve been craving bread lately, nice thick slabs of chewy and crusty bread, good old European style bread. I’ve looked through my books and nothing sparked my interest. By dumb luck, I happened across a recipe last night for a quick to make version of ciabatta. I love the texture of this bread and knew [...]

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Recipe Round-Ups

Food Fight #3: a pantry raid!

It seems like forever since I put on a Food Fight … actually, it’s been 1 year since I started the food event. I held it for 2 months then took off the summer from food blogging due to work. So, now that I’m back in the saddle, I decided to revitalize the Food Fight [...]

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Baked Goods

Orange marmie muffins with cardamom pine nut streusel

The star ingredient for these muffins is my very own ‘marmie’ (orange marmalade). The muffins are light and sweet with ribbons of orange peel running throughout. They are topped with a pine nut and cardamom spiced streusel which adds a crunchy texture. I’m in love with this creation, especially since it puts my many jars [...]

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