Korena in the Kitchen

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The Creamiest Hummus

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May 24, 2013

Sometimes you just need a platter full of vegetables and some garlicky hummus to dip them in. It’s been ages since I last made hummus, and I’ve been wanting to try Smitten Kitchen’s secret to making “ethereally smooth hummus“. But I think I was also putting it off, because the…
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Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes

White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Brownies {with sourdough!}

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May 20, 2013

Of all the things I imagined making with a sourdough starter, brownies were not one of them. This month Sourdough Surprises showed me otherwise. Silly me.
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Main Dishes, Recipes

Grilled Butterflied Chicken

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May 16, 2013

Butterflied chicken, aka spatchcocked chicken (which is much more fun to say), is one of the items on my list that can now be checked off. Butterflying/spatchcocking (see? more fun 😉 ) a chicken simply means cutting out the backbone so that the chicken lies flat, and as such, it…
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Cookies & Squares, Recipes

Coconut Oat and Date Cookies

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May 13, 2013

I have a new favorite ingredient: dates. I discovered them first in this totally amazing raw brownie recipe (seriously, they are awesome brownies, raw or otherwise) and I was basically flabbergasted that you could make something that tastes this good out of nothing but pulverized nuts, dates, and cocoa powder.
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Main Dishes, Pasta Dishes, Recipes

Lasagne Bolognese {an epic from-scratch project}

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May 9, 2013

Did you know that a true lasagne bolognese contains neither ricotta nor mozzarella? Just bolognese sauce, béchamel sauce and parmesan cheese (and pasta sheets, of course), and it is delicious.
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Cakes & Pies, Chocolate, Recipes

Chocolate Caramel Bacon Insanity Cake

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May 5, 2013

If you are on a diet, you might want to avert your eyes. When I asked Nate a few weeks ago what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he gave me free reign to make whatever I felt like. I was all set to make a tres leches…
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Cakes & Pies, Daring Bakers Challenges, Fruit, Recipes

Daring Bakers: Strawberry Savarin

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April 27, 2013

Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina challenges us to make a traditional Savarin, complete with soaking syrup and cream filling! We were to follow the Savarin recipe but were allowed to be creative with the soaking syrup and filling, allowing us to come up with some very delicious cakes! Before…
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Pasta Dishes, Recipes

Sourdough Tortelli Piacentini

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April 20, 2013

Several months ago, Jamie Oliver posted a photo on Facebook showing the most beautiful pasta I had ever seen, which immediately prompted me to start a frantic search to find out what it was called and how it was made. The picture came from a British food TV show called…
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Bread, Recipes

Ciabatta Bread

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April 17, 2013

Oh how I’ve missed baking bread every week! This beautiful, holey, airy, chewy bread is exactly what homemade bread should be: rustic and delicious and better than anything you can buy in the store, partly because it only contains five ingredients (flour, water, yeast, salt, and olive oil) but mostly…
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Main Dishes, Pasta Dishes, Recipes, Vegetables

Spaghetti (Squash) and Meatballs

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April 14, 2013

We didn’t eat spaghetti and meatballs in my house when I was growing up – we ate lots of spaghetti with meat sauce, but not with meatballs. I didn’t make my first batch of meatballs until I was well into my twenties, and since then it seems I’ve been making…
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I’m Korena: cook, baker, dirty-dishes-maker. My favourite things include flour, butter, sugar, and chocolate.

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