Eggs Benedict

The first time I made Eggs Benedict, I was so frazzled that it came out a bit lackluster.  I did not know how to poach eggs, so I was doing that at the same time I was trying to make the hollandaise sauce, whisking constantly in a bowl over a pot of simmering water, and [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Chocolate Cream Tart

Unfortunately, this is the only shot I caught of my tart – the morning after most of it was eaten!  I was serving the tart at home after a dinner out with friends, so I waited until we returned to assemble the tart and make the whipped cream, so it would be as fresh as [...]

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Chocolate Bread Pudding – Pictures!

As I explained in my last post, I forgot to upload my TWD pictures before my husband went out of town with the camera.  Since he didn’t bring the cord with him, he couldn’t send them to me; so the pictures are late!  The bread pudding was lovely – custardy and chocolatey.  I halved the [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Chocolate Bread Pudding

I made Dorie’s 4-star Chocolate Bread Pudding last week ….. but then my husband went out of town and took the camera before I had a chance to up load the pictures!  Okay, that’s not quite fair – I had a chance, but I procrastinated – and then lost my chance.    I shouldn’t [...]

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Nutella Self-Frosting Cake

Note:  I didn’t have a chance to make this week’s TWD – the chocolate amaretti torte.  I just didn’t have time to make my own and couldn’t find them in any of the stores I checked.  Please visit TWDto see everyone else’s!  It sounds as if everybody really enjoyed it and I’ll definitely make it [...]

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French Toast

Life gets a bit too fussy sometimes, doesn’t it?  I take the train to and from work every day.  The other day on my way home, it had rained, which left a slippery platform.  That plus old shoes that don’t have any treads on the soles anymore meant that I slipped and fell.  Nobody stopped [...]

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Banana Cream Parfaits

 
I didn’t want to make a whole banana cream pie for just the two of us, especially since my husband is going out of town (again) this week, so then it’d just be me with a whole pie.  And that doesn’t sound like it’s going to end well.    So I decided to nix [...]

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Cold Noodle Salad

I’m Asian.  Kind of.  I was born in Canada and grew up in Connecticut.  Most my close friends were not Asian.  There were only a small handful of us in school.  It wasn’t until I went to college that I saw there were actually lots of other Asiansout there!  I kind of expected there to [...]

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