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Fancy Schmancy Cool as a Cucumber Canapés + Tips on Turning Dishes into Party...
Today, just because I like food to look appetizing, I’m sharing a few super-simple (really!) presentation tricks and techniques we learned in pastry chef school. If you’re one of the many home cooks...
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Four Good Reasons Every Foodie Should Grow Chives, + a Tempting Chive-Cheddar...
Even if you have never grown a single edible plant; don't have a garden plot; and fervently believe you have a brown thumb, if you enjoy cooking and eating fresh, flavorful produce, you should...
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When Summer Simmers, Bring on Homemade Real Juice Ice Pops
These homemade ice pops are light, bright, colorful, and guaranteed to bring on goose bumps. They capture the taste of summer’s favorite fruits and berries, but in more intense, much colder form. If...
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Mojito-Lime Sorbet with Fresh Mint--Stay Cool My Friends
Though it's 96 degrees F and sticky-humid in central Maryland right now, it might be a little early in the day to start sipping mojitos. But it is definitely not too early to sit on the deck and scarf...
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Best Fudgy-Wudgy Browies, Plus Bittersweet Memories on Memorial Day
I'm baking these fudgiest-ever brownies for Memorial Day. Partly, it's because everybody loves them, and they are perfect for an informal family gathering. But it's also partly because because they are...
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Supremely Good Lemon Pots de Crème—Maybe the Best Dessert Ever
Over several decades of writing mainly baking books, I’ve created countless dessert recipes. Cakes, pies, ice creams, cookies …. oh yes, loads of cookies for three different cookie books! But never,...
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Four Good Reasons Every Foodie Should Grow Chives, + a Tempting Chive-Cheddar...
Even if you have never grown a single edible plant; don't have a garden plot; and fervently believe you have a brown thumb, if you enjoy cooking and eating fresh, flavorful produce, you should...
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Tomato Salad with Violet Confetti and Violet Vinegar Dressing
Did you know that woodland violets come in many colors besides purple--from white to pink to yellow to blue? That there are hundreds of varieties in what's called the Viola family, and that they are...
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Got Violets and Lemons? Make Beautiful Lemonade
It's wild violet season, and like many centuries of cooks and gardeners before me, I am out gathering and then putting violets to use in my kitchen. Some folks still prize violets for certain curative...
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Cute Baby Carriage Shower Cookies
This week I was busily baking and decorating a big batch of cut-out sugar cookies. As you can no doubt guess, the baby carriage cookies were created for a baby shower. The party was for my niece,...
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Berry Trifle Puddings with Violets, Plus Collection of Violets Pics
Okay, I admit it. I get excited over simple seasonal garden happenings that some peeps might consider mundane: Like the native wild violets, or viola, that are now popping up everywhere in the woods...
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Homemade Violet Syrup--Made with Violets from Spring Gardens & Woods
Each spring I take a page from traditionalist European and some American cooks and herbalists and harvest native woodland violets for culinary use. The ones featured here are the "plain" blue...
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Got Violets and Lemons? Make Beautiful Lemonade
It's wild violet season, and like many centuries of cooks and gardeners before me, I am out gathering and then putting violets to use in my kitchen. Some folks still prize violets for certain curative...
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Cute Baby Carriage Shower Cookies
This week I was busily baking and decorating a big batch of cut-out sugar cookies. As you can no doubt guess, the baby carriage cookies were created for a baby shower. The party was for my niece,...
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Tips for Cookie Decorating with the Kids
Yesterday my grandkids and I cut out, baked, and decorated sugar cookies. We've been doing this at various holidays ever since my grandson, Charlie, was 18 months old--and he is now almost a teenager!...
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7 Ways to Tell if Your Food Photos Are Trendy
Nasturtium-Chive VinegarIn every age, artists and their work inevitably reflect what's deemed fashionable at the time. Savvy Byzantine painters elongated human faces, rendered their backgrounds flat,...
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Pretty Spring Edible Flower Lollipops-Sweet, Charming and Easier Than You Think
I love how after a long dreary cold spell the snow fades away, the days lengthen, and finally, the early perennial flowers like snowdrops and violets start to poke through the earth and bloom again....
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Cute Baby Carriage Shower Cookies
This week I was busily baking and decorating a big batch of cut-out sugar cookies. As you can no doubt guess, the baby carriage cookies were created for a baby shower. The party was for my niece,...
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Tips for Cookie Decorating with the Kids
Yesterday my grandkids and I cut out, baked, and decorated sugar cookies. We've been doing this at various holidays ever since my grandson, Charlie, was 18 months old--and he is now almost a teenager!...
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7 Ways to Tell if Your Food Photos Are Trendy
Nasturtium-Chive VinegarIn every age, artists and their work inevitably reflect what's deemed fashionable at the time. Savvy Byzantine painters elongated human faces, rendered their backgrounds flat,...
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