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Chocolate Caramel Cookies with Orange Mascarpone Cream

13.12.2009 Baked

It was only a matter of time before I gave into temptation and changed one of the cookie recipes I’ve been sampling from Bon Appetit’s Holiday Cookie assortment this year.  Actually, that’s only partially true.  The collection includes several mix and drop cookies, and I strayed early on to experiment with a recipe for the [...]

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Spiced Upside-Down Apple Cake

22.11.2009 Baked

The very last issue of Gourmet sits in a stack along with the most recent issues of Saveur, Bon Appetit, and Food & Wine — all barely touched.  Holiday catalogs I’d rather not receive lay scattered in the mix as well reminding me that I should probably pay attention.  How can it be the end [...]

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Waldorf Salad sans Mayo

10.11.2009 Cookbooks and Magazines

We’ve been eating quite a bit of soup and salad lately.  With the business of our lives, it often seems to be the only way to make sure we don’t fall into the take-out habit, or worse, microwaved frozen food.  Call me a food snob — or better yet, consider that it’s not challenging [...]

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Spicy Shrimp Salad

30.05.2009 Cookbooks and Magazines

I’d love to say it’s salad weather here, but if you are fortunate to be a resident of San Diego, then you know that not only have we been experiencing the typical overcast weather we lovingly refer to as May Grey, but are definitely headed into a serious June Gloom.  Although I am one [...]

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Roasted Chicken and Tomatoes with Cheese Grits

20.03.2009 Chicken

Mark Twain is believed to have said that the coldest winter he “ever saw” was the summer he spent in San Francisco.   Having been to San Franciso many, many times in my life, and a city I’d happily relocate to if given the opportunity, I’d have to agree with whomever said that.  But I’d [...]

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Towering Coconut Mango Cake

11.03.2009 Breads

It’s been a longer week than I care to think about with life’s semi-usual highs and lows and in this case, I’d say they were one in the same.  Dealing with bronchitis has kept me out of the kitchen and away from food, so I’ve gotten a break of sorts.  Some break.  But it has [...]

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