Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum My toddler and I have a neat tradition when we go grocery shopping– we like to take a swing by the bakery case and look at all the cool birthday cakes. I remember doing this same thing, with my…
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I once stopped at a fancy bakery, taking a deep sigh before I reverently approached the bakery case. Inside that glass jewel box glistened treasures of every kind– flaky baklava, fruit-adorned tarts, and powdered-sugar kissed Napoleons. But the thing that…
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Yum No one is sure exactly how Red Velvet cake came to be. Some people claim that it was invented at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, where a chef charged a woman $350 for the recipe. And, supposedly, she paid this…
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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 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 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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Perfect Princess Cookies When I had my son, I was indoctrinated into the culture of Matchbox cars, action heroes, and everything messy, squishy, and loud. I learned that burping is hilarious, and no one ever needs a bath. I thought…
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Yum Have you ever had a chocolate éclair– I mean, a real chocolate éclair? You haven’t?? Goodness. You are in for a treat. These little beauties consist of a delicate, hollow shell bursting with rich, golden cream and topped with a…
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