Korena in the Kitchen

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Homemade Almond Butter and Cocoa-Cranberry Power Truffles

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January 24, 2013

I can now officially cross an item off my list: homemade nut butter! It literally is as simple as roasting some nuts (in this case, almonds) and grinding them in a food processor until they turn into nut butter. The only reason it’s taken me this long to make it…
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Bread, Breakfast & Brunch, Chocolate, Recipes

Sourdough Brioche Babka with Toblerone and Caramelized White Chocolate

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January 20, 2013

Sometimes I swear that Jenni and Shelley, the ladies behind Sourdough Surprises, are inside my head, reading my thoughts. I was just contemplating baking all my leftover Christmas chocolate into brioche buns when they announced that January’s Sourdough Surprises recipe was going to be just that: sourdough brioche swirled with…
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Recipes, Vegetables

Painted Desert Salad with Maple Glazed Smoked Salmon

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January 16, 2013

I’m sharing one of my very favorite salads over on the SeaChange blog today. It has roasted red pepper, avocado, smoked cheese, walnuts, sage, and of course smoked salmon (of the delicious maple glazed variety!) along with an extremely wonderful chipotle-maple-balsamic vinaigrette. Check it out!
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Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes

Vanilla Risotto with Red Wine Poached Pears

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January 14, 2013

In the winter I often get massive cravings for rice pudding – warm, creamy, comforting, and delicious. I was having one of those cravings when I found these adorable miniature Seckel pears at the grocery store, and I immediately thought of poaching them in wine and spices and serving them…
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Miscellaneous

The List

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January 9, 2013

The following “to make” list has been floating around in my head for a long time. I figured I’d put it in writing and then it can act sort of like a New Year’s resolution, even though I’m not making any (other than more cheesecake) and I don’t intend on…
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Main Dishes, Recipes

{Chickpea-less} Chicken, Potato, and Chickpea Curry

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January 6, 2013

Don’t you hate it when you are in the middle of making something delicious and you reach into the pantry to grab that one last (rather important) ingredient, only to discover that you are, in fact, out of chickpeas for your chicken, potato, and chickpea curry? Yeah, I hate it…
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Cakes & Pies, Recipes

Eggnog Latté Cheesecake

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January 3, 2013

I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions because I’m terrible at following through on them (see last year’s resolution… I can’t say it went so well), but if I were to make one for this year it would be this: MORE CHEESECAKE. I know resolutions are usually about exercising more…
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Cookies & Squares, Recipes

Speculaas and Happy New Year!

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December 31, 2012

I can’t believe it’s the end of 2012 already. How did that happen so fast? A lot has happened this year, including Nate and me becoming homeowners. We celebrated Thanksgiving in our new house with both of our families, I baked a bazillion Christmas cookies in our new kitchen (see…
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Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes

Salted Caramel Macarons and Mexican Chocolate Macarons

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December 30, 2012

Macarons are definitely my current favorite thing to make: somewhat finicky, infinitely variable flavours, and SO TASTY and worth every minute of trouble. I made two kinds this Christmas: salted caramel and Mexican chocolate. Since making a salted butter caramel apple strudel not so long ago, I haven’t been able…
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Bread, Chocolate, Daring Bakers Challenges, Recipes

Daring Bakers: Chocolate Orange Panettone

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December 27, 2012

The December 2012 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by the talented Marcellina of Marcellina in Cucina. Marcellina challenged us to create our own custom Panettone, a traditional Italian holiday bread! Happy post-Christmas, everyone. I hope you ate a lot of good food and were surrounded by the people you love.…
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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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