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Continue reading →: Daring Bakers: Strawberry Savarin
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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Continue reading →: Sourdough Tortelli Piacentini
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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Continue reading →: Ciabatta Bread
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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Continue reading →: Spaghetti (Squash) and Meatballs
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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Continue reading →: Lemon Meringue Coconut Macaroon Tarts
Lemon curd. Toasted meringue. Coconut macaroon. What’s not to love? (I told you there’d still be plenty of butter and sugar in these parts… no flour in this one though!) In the course of making these little tarts, the only thing I didn’t really love was that for some reason,…
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Continue reading →: Leek and Bacon Quiche with Wholegrain Pastry
Nate and I had a pretty quiet Easter weekend at home, so instead of a big Easter Sunday dinner, I made a quiche with leek and bacon, a dish of scalloped potatoes, and a green salad (and dessert, of course – that post is coming!). I was lucky enough to…
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Continue reading →: Whole Grain & Flax Buttermilk Pancakes
I’ve ordered buttermilk pancakes in restaurants many times and I’ve never really been able to taste the difference between them and regular pancakes. But once again I had a carton of buttermilk in the fridge leftover from a baking project, and buttermilk pancakes seemed like a good way to use…
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Continue reading →: Chocolate Porter Sourdough Hot Cross Buns
Happy Easter! I hope the Easter Bunny brought you all lots of chocolate. :) This Easter I wanted to make some special hot cross buns (as in, more special than these or these). I was thinking something along the lines of “hot cross bunnies” (haha, I’m so punny… bunny… sorry)…
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Continue reading →: Cream Cheese Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting, Take 2: Success!
Almost two years ago, I made a wedding cake for my good friend and frosted it with cream cheese Swiss meringue buttercream. The cake turned out great, but the frosting was another story. Turns out that cream cheese doesn’t work so well as a replacement for butter, which I realized…
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Continue reading →: Daring Bakers: Beet Red Velvet Cake
Ruth from Makey-Cakey was our March 2013 Daring Bakers’ challenge host. She encouraged us all to get experimental in the kitchen and sneak some hidden veggies into our baking, with surprising and delicious results! OK, here comes the FOURTH cake post this month! My goodness. I’ve been mildly obsessed with…
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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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