Tuesdays with Dorie – Perfect Party Cake – Pictures are MIA!

Eeks!  I baked the Perfect Party Cake a couple of months ago for my husband’s birthday, and planned on posting the pictures when the cake came around for Tuesdays with Dorie (I knew it would eventually!).  But now I can’t find the pictures anywhere!  I’ll post them when I find them.    In short, [...]

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Hainan Chicken Rice

Sorry I’ve been MIA again – we’re still settling in.  I’ve also started job searching, having left my job in DC after we moved out of state.  It’s tough to get back into a job search after having a job that I loved for the past few years.  I went on my first interview today [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Honey Peach Ice Cream

I was excited to break out my ice cream maker, a wedding gift that I don’t use nearly enough.  But now that we’ve moved into a big house and I have so much storage space in my kitchen that I no longer have to stash the ice cream maker in the very back of a [...]

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A Different Kind of Rice Cake

Remember rice cakes?  Those airy, crunchy discs that tasted like styrofoam?  I used to always have a bag on hand, as a low calorie snack, thinking they would help me diet.  I’ve long since realized that I don’t really need to diet, so along with calorie counting (or obsessive calorie counting, where I counted every [...]

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Blackout Cake

So, this wasn’t supposed to be a blackout cake.  In fact, I’ve never really considered making a blackout cake (I didn’t even know what one was until I saw it on the cover of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking:  from my home to yours), and I missed the week that the TWD group baked it.
But sometimes, things [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Parisian Apple Tartlet

I was so excited to get back into the swing of things after moving cross-country.  I missed the last few TWDs, but look forward to baking those recipes at some point!
The Parisian Apple Tartlet was a lot of fun to make and eat!  I’ve made tartlets like this before with puff pastry, except I usually [...]

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Baked Chicken Drumsticks

I’m back!  Thank you for your patience during my long hiatus.  Moving across the country is never easy, and we definitely ran into our share of glitches.  Our movers came 4 days late, our appliances (including our refrigerator, which explains why I haven’t been cooking) came a couple days late, our 2nd car (we drove [...]

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