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desserts

Ladurée (the remains of the pastry…)

April 10, 2011

Site très joli ici (kids would like it).

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Gluten-free almond torte

February 6, 2011

The reason there’s no picture of the whole cake is it was too good; it got scarfed up almost before I even remembered to take a photo, with piles of whipped cream on the side. The recipe is here, but I simplified it by using almond meal (a.k.a. almond flour) instead of grinding up the [...]

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Happy kids

January 25, 2011

It doesn’t take much, just a few sprinkles on the birthday cupcakes.

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Ice cream for the holidays?

December 12, 2010

I made two kinds of ice cream for Thanksgiving, straight-up cranberry and an ice cream flavored with uncooked cranberry orange relish (recipe in the Joy of Cooking). While the latter was interesting, and fairly yummy, the plain cranberry ice cream was the real keeper, tart and creamy and such a pretty color. It’s going to [...]

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Apple cake, apple cake, Mama wants an apple cake

November 24, 2010

Cooking seasonally means apple cake in the fall when I have drops from my cousin’s tree, a big box of Spencers from a neighbor, Cortlands and Macouns from other nearby orchards. Here’s a round up of the cakes I’ve tried, searching for the apple cake that makes you feel like a happy child just blown [...]

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The kids love me today

October 27, 2010

…because I made them popcorn balls—“old-fashioned” popcorn balls. Don’t let the name fool you—this is junk food through and through, and mighty hard on the old fillings. But fun to make. At first I thought the vinegar and baking soda were part of the old-timey flavor, though the ingredients for “volcano” did cross my mind. [...]

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Making cider (try this at home)

September 25, 2010

Get a bunch of cousins or neighbors or friends together and pick apples off some untended trees. (These were tended, once upon a time, by my great-great uncle—tended so well, in their day, that they still bear crisp, delicious apples, a couple of generations later.) The apples may be wormy, but that just increases the [...]

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butterfly pie

September 7, 2010

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Still under construction, but: homemade CHOCOLATE SYRUP!

May 18, 2010

I will never buy chocolate syrup again (God willing). We’ve had various health food store brands around over the last few years; without naming names, some are good, some—not so much. But what we were putting on our ice cream most recently was high fructose corn syrup with cocoa in it from a brown plastic [...]

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