Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum Even though it’s been cold, and we have been snowed under 2 feet of the evil white stuff (it only ceases to be “evil” at Christmas, and that’s long since past), there have been a few warm days, here…
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Yum Valentine’s Day brings out weird reactions in people. I have seen Teddy Bears the size of a cheap Manhattan apartment gracing Walmart shelves and people agonizing over the card choices, because none of them seem right. Some people try…
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Yum When I think about classic desserts, my mind drifts back to the 1950s. To me, in my “Leave it to Beaver” education on this time period, everyone went around eating desserts and drinking coffee and driving in a car…
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Yum Ah, pulled pork. Depending on where you live, this little delicacy might be called “Pulled Pork,” “Pork Barbecue,” or even just “Barbecue.” But no matter what you call it, the bare bones of this dish are the same: fall-apart…
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Yum Puff pastry is an amazing thing. You can turn it into almost anything– savory mushroom and brie breakfast tarts, deliciously flaky cream cheese croissants, or apple turnovers– sweet, buttery, and light as air. Puff pastry literally “puffs” in the…
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Yum I think there is a little girl lurking somewhere, deep inside every woman, who loves the idea of a fancy tea party. I just love to break out the fancy china (well, not literally break out), make some beautiful…
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Yum Well, here we are in cold, silent January. Don’t get me wrong– there are beautiful things about winter: the crisp crunch of snow underfoot, the chilly kiss of steam curling from your coffee cup, or the silent, sterile beauty…
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Yum Do you know how pound cake got its name? No, it’s not because you gain a pound by eating a slice. Although, I think there is some wicked irony in place, there (Evil glare at the bathroom scale). No,…
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Yum Mousse, at its core, is basically frothy, lightened egg whites folded into a custard or ganache. But, you know . . . as I was making regular mousse, and folding my egg whites into my lime custard, I thought…
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Yum The first time I ever went to Red Robin, I glanced over the menu and stopped on one bewitching little item: Freckled Lemonade. “What in the world is Freckled Lemonade?” I thought to myself. “How in the world can…
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