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Good Gourd! Should We Be Going Green with These Gnarly Garden Oddities?
Have you always thought, as I have, that the gnarly gourds of autumn are fairly weird, fairly useless garden oddities? Yes, they have a peculiar beauty and can make attractive table ornaments or...
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Naturally Beautiful Iced Sugar Cookies--Decorated without a Drop of Dye
Whew! With hurricane Sandy now blowing on out of Maryland, my plans are back on track to teach several "au naturel" cookie decorating classes at the King Arthur Flour Baking Education Center in...
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The BEST (& Easiest) Way to Roll Out Cookie Dough, Plus Other Top Tips for...
"Wow, I wish I’d known that technique thirty years ago,” an enthusiastic student in my cookie class at King Arthur Flour’s Baking Education Center told me last weekend. She was referring to the...
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Yo! Cookbook Authors (& Wannabes): When Chronicle's Bill LeBlond Speaks You...
When Bill LeBlond, Editorial Director, Food and Wine at Chronicle Books, kicked off his IACP Webinar/Teleforum Wednesday, he should have warned us to fasten our seat beats. For one jam-packed hour,...
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Here is a post from a previous year, which I would like to share with you once again. I wish you all a Thanksgiving as beautiful and serene as the scene pictured here. I’ve come up with a baker’s dozen...
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Your Favorite Posts of 2012--You Liked "What!?"
One of the really fun aspects of blogging is to try to predict which topics and pics are going to be a hit with you, my readers. With each new post I eagerly await your feedback (yes, it's true!), and...
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Spiced Chicken with Pears--From my 50 Winning Ways with Chicken Collection!
I've never written a "50 Winning Ways with Chicken Cookbook," but I could have! Over the years I've turned out dozens, no make that hundreds, of mostly healthful recipes calling for chicken (very often...
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Sweets for a Sweetie--Maybe for Yours, Too?
DID YOU MISS MY VALENTINE'S NEWSLETTER? GO HERE. Are you thinking that these cookies would be perfect for a party or romantic Valentine's treat? I agree. I took them to my sweet granddaughter's...
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Pesto-Pasta-White Bean Soup--Easy, Nourishing Winter Warmer-Upper
DID YOU MISS MY LATEST NEWSLETTER AND EXCLUSIVE RECIPE? GO HERE. Fair warning to locavores: I deliberately seek out fresh basil and chives and make this soup in the dead of winter. In fact, these herbs...
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Dye-Free Decorated Heart Cookies--The Sweetest Way to Say "I Love You!"
Decorated cutout cookies have always seemed magical to me. From the first time I helped my grandmother take her cutters from their faded cardboard storage box and we stamped out gingerbread men, trees,...
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Good & Easy Chocolate Satin Glaze--Great for Dressing Up a Valentine's Treat
There are chocolate glazes, and then there are CHOCOLATE glazes. Some look so luxurious and chocolatey they may precipitate drooling, but, then, sadly, fail to deliver: When you take a taste and try...
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When the Crock Pot Was New & the World Was Groovy, Plus a Tangy Beef &...
A number of notable things happened in America in the 1970s: The Watergate scandal, a funny, iconoclastic television show called "All in the Family," (which it's said President Nixon never found...
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Iced Shamrock Cookies--Going Green the Green Tea Way, Plus Exciting News!
I have fabulous news to share with you today! I just found out that my latest book, Simply Sensational Cookies, was nominated for an International Association of Culinary Professionals' Baking Book...
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St. Paddy's Day Stout Bread--As in Bread Made with Dark Guinness Stout
I am a huge fan of Guinness Extra Stout. Not because I care much for dark, strong beers; except at an occasional Orioles' game or as an accompaniment to peppery Chesapeake steamed crabs, I skip even...
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Where Do I Get My Recipes? With This Green Herb Potato Soup It's a Long Story!
"Do you test your recipes?" is the first question people usually ask when they hear I write cookbooks. I always suspect they're inquiring because at some point some cookbook author's dish came out...
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Possibly the Best Marshmallows or Marshmallow Bunnies Ever
I've been addicted to marshmallows as long as I can remember. Well, I never cared for the "circus peanuts" kind (shaped to look like giant peanuts in their shells) due to their weird baby aspirin...
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Pretty (Easy) Cookies for When You Want Festive but Haven't Got All Day!
Perhaps you never noticed, but really avid cookie decorators tend to be a tad obsessive about their edible artwork. They often go way overboard with the futzing and beautifying, apparently forgetting...
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Ham Bone-Vegetable Soup--A Great Bonus Meal from that Holiday Ham
Wait, stop! You weren't really going to throw out that holiday ham bone, were you? Leftover ham bones should always be considered culinary treasures and saved for making soup or stock.Pitch out a bone...
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Calling All Foodies--Don't Miss San Francisco's Famed Ferry Building
Off the Embarcadero at the Ferry Building.I just returned from a culinary conference in San Francisco, where I spent a lot of my free time at the Ferry Building. That's one of the entrances pictured at...
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Spectacular Violet and Leafy Greens Salad, Plus a Quick Violet Vinaigrette
I suppose salad doesn't leap into most people's minds at the sight of a field turned hazy purple with a carpet of wild violets. But if you live anywhere that these beautiful ephemerals appear each...
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