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Baked Goods

Blueberry Buckle: My Favorite Blueberry Recipe

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Blueberry buckle is a stunning cake filled to capacity with plump, juicy blueberries. It’s one of my favorite blueberry recipes, and more specifically, it’s one of my favorite Martha Stewart recipes.

                
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Grab-n-Go Coffee Cake

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Coffee cake is pure marketing brilliance. Let’s face it, it’s cake. But simply by calling it ‘coffee cake’ it’s transformed from a dessert into an acceptable breakfast, at least in my mother’s household. I’m not complaining but instead am fascinated…

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Strawberry-Blueberry Magic Cobbler Recipe

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Berry season is upon us and I couldn’t be more happy. Whether you’re looking for strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or boysenberries, the fruits are becoming readily available and at affordable prices. This berry cobbler is versatile and a great use of…

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Strawberry Cornmeal Muffins Recipe

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Growing up, we raised and picked our own berries. It’s one of the things I miss most about the farm, especially when strawberry season rolls around.

This past week I decided to find a local U-Pick farm where we could re-live…

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Casatiello: a Savory Bread

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This marks my second indulgent week of deliciously sinful carbs. I enjoy bread baking, especially the lengthy proofing process, and find it therapeutic. However, the amount of bread I’m turning out (and consuming) is the downside to my so-called therapy.…

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Braided Almond Brioche Bread

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Sometimes, little boys who learn to braid hair on the playground grow up to be hairdressers, but not me. I quickly became a master of the traditional 3-braid ponytail and all the girls knew who to reach out to when…

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Buttermilk Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

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We don’t have air conditioning in our rather intimate 520 sq. ft. condo and we’re experiencing sunny, hot weather. You might think it odd to be baking with an oven cranked to the maximum 500F (250C) limit.

As the beads…

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Buttermilk Rhubarb Bread

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Rhubarb endears itself to me a little more each year. A few weeks ago, I found myself suddenly in my childhood home just as Spring took over the landscape, transforming stagnant trees into leafy towers. I walked the perimeter of…

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Mahjong Monday: Lemon Poppy Seed Scones

This past weekend brought with it another game of mahjong. Our friends Dave & Jeff, phoned us Saturday afternoon as were doing our grocery shopping to invite us over for a Saturday night game. Since I’m still learning the rules…

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Blood Orange ‘Lemon’ Bars Recipe

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I’ve been fantasizing about citrus the past couple of days. You see, back in California, our orange tree and meyer lemon tree were both producing tons of fruit when we moved. I’ve been fairly non-sentimental about the entire house sale…

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Orange Cran-licious Bread

My mother almost always made everything from scratch. She baked her own breads, cookies, and even cakes. But on occasion, she would use Bisquick baking mix to make biscuits or an infamous “Impossibly Easy Pies“. As a kid, I thought Bisquick…

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A ‘Depression Cake’ for Our Recession Aches

Every day I watch the stock market fluctuate and my heart races when it dips. Our economy is screwed and my hard-earned retirement savings are now half of what it had been just months ago. Obviously, I’m not alone and…

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Is it possible to make a healthy crust?

There is a whole class of foods that I am avoiding in my crusade to be ‘healthy’, and sadly it’s one of the most important food groups to me. I’m talking about pies, quiches, and other delicious foods delivered in…

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Banana and Orange Muffins

Last month, I entered the Taste & Create food blog event which pairs two food bloggers who must each make a recipe from the other’s site. Unfortunately, my partner didn’t follow through so it was a little disappointing and not nearly…

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Freshly made bagels, chewy and delicious!

I’m slowly waking up this morning, my faithful mug filled with wonderfully black coffee, piping hot. It’s rainy and overcast and I’m watching my neighbors tiptoeing outside to pick up their soggy newspaper. The house is still dark and perfumed…

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