Nuts
The Husband and I were watching a documentary about prison, like we seem to end up doing every three weeks or so, and I was inspired by these triple-decker bunks they stuff convicts into now in order to save space. Double-decker bunks are apparently old-school, relics of a time before the whole overcrowding problem, when […]
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It’s so freaking hot out, so this weather calls for an easy dessert that delivers a powerful insulin spike with ridiculously limited effort. (You’d think I’d have made a no-bake dessert, or frozen concoction of some sort- but no, I’m not that planful. I’ll make sundaes soon, I promise. They’re in the queue.) I’m on […]
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Marilyn sent me this recipe, and it got bumped around the queue I keep of Recipes I’ll Probably Maybe Make One Day. The ingredients didn’t… speak to me. Like a homeless lady with a diagnosable mental illness, I wait for recipe ingredients to speak to me, and usually out loud. (True non-sequitur homeless lady story: […]
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Rum- you either love it or you hate it. If you hate it, click here or here, or go have a nap. If you love it, stick with me, drinking buddy. We’re going to have a good time. (Full disclosure: rum and I are still unsure of our relationship. I have a scarring memory from 1994 […]
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What have I been thinking? I looked back on the recipes I’ve been making lately and they’re as white as the Oscars. It’s time to bring back the chocolate, folks, because- wait. I don’t even need to explain the rationale on this. Chocolate speaks for itself. I commit that I will never go more than five […]
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It’s been too long since I’ve put white chocolate and pistachio together (one year, five months, and fourteen days, but who’s obsessing about it or anything?). For this inexplicably long amount of inexcusable time, I am sorry. But I know I’ll redeem myself with this reunion-party-in-a-cookie. I’m a people-pleaser so I’ll do what it takes to […]
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It’s been a long time since I’ve made biscotti, so this is what you’re getting this week. I’ve had the tube of almond paste burning a hole in the Miscellaneous Baking Drawer (the one with the pomegranate molasses, yeast, gelatin, and weird flours that I’ll probably never use again) for a few months now, possibly perilously […]
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This is the recipe that will make you an instant celebrity in your circle of family and friends. (You might already be a celebrity to these insulin-spiked folks if you’ve been making my World’s Greatest Fudge Brownies, so just get ready for your celeb status to skyrocket into Kardashian territory.) This toffee candy has been […]
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Two essential words, my baker friends: FROOT LOOPS. It’s inexplicable, I know, but somehow this incredible concoction of cooked sugar, lemon, pistachio and candied ginger cracked the code of what Froot Loops cereal tastes like. Exactly. So I don’t know about you, but I’m getting my candy thermometer ready to make another batch, because any […]
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Nod with me. Chocolate, nod. Macadamia nuts, nod. Cookie baked into a tart shell, nod. Chocolate sauce? Really? Nod! It doesn’t take that much to make a desserts fiend happy, but I’ve gotta tell ya- this one makes it embarrassingly easy to love. There’s something about the texture of macadamia nuts in the midst of […]
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Have you seen ‘Still Alice’? Yeah well, I might have early onset Alzheimers like that character with the red hair who won the Academy Award. (I’m not even joking- I can’t remember her name right now. Reinforcing my point.) I was at the store yesterday morning and bought cashews and a bar of white chocolate […]
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So fast. So easy. So good. I’ve had a thing lately for toasted pecans, so this dessert works JUST FINE. (Really- I have even been adding them to my morning yogurt snack with raisins and strawberries and cinnamon. Can’t. Get. Enough. But don’t even think of skipping the 7 minute step of toasting them, or […]
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Dear Hazelnuts, Oh, how I’ve missed you. Where have you been? I let us grow apart, and I take responsibility for that. I have to admit that I let pecans and walnuts rule the nut roost ’round these parts, and I forgot about how freaking good you can be- all toasted and fragrant and nutty […]
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Flashback to 2006, Rhodes, Greece. Imagine being served a cool bowl of Greek yogurt- drizzled in honey with walnuts sprinkled on top- on a scorching hot morning as a mere part of a massive breakfast that your impossibly generous innkeeper host will serve to you each day. (If you ever go to Rhodes, which I […]
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I stumbled upon this recipe in the Wall Street Journal one morning while in professional mode- reading articles about mergers and acquisitions and takeovers and other riveting topics. I must have ‘accidentally’ clicked on the food section and a picture of a cake sprinkled with pomegranate seeds slapped me out of my working-mode stupor. I […]
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A few weeks back when The Husband and I were moving into our new place (yes, the place where our glorious new oven decided not to work from Day 1, even though our inspector didn’t pick up on it and then the Fisher & Paykel guy who came out and said “it works just fine!” […]
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This post is dangerous. I’m telling you now, so consider yourself warned. You might have forgotten how freaking amazing peanut brittle is, and even if you haven’t forgotten, you haven’t tasted this. And I speak from unfortunate experience that you simply cannot eat one piece of this brittle in one sitting. (Or one ‘standing’, which […]
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Toasted almonds and milk chocolate just work. Don’t try to argue about it, because you’ll lose the fight all night long. Take a perfectly good sliced almond, improve it 750% by toasting it (really- if you don’t toast your almonds then you are living in a hazy, cloudy, sad, bland place), and throw it into […]
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