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My quest begins ! This one is from Julia Child “mastering the art of french cooking” – page 258. I’m not sure why I chose this as a starting place – but it definitely sounded great. This recipe was a bit onerous… ( hmm… is it going to make the simple test?). But I pressed [...]

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2009 was a hectic year cooking-wise ( I guess in other regards as well). With so much to do (work, family, errands, new-baby) I felt like I was always a little behind “blog-wise” and it was a struggle to keep up. There were definitely some highlights – six greats   – the orange cake; the slow [...]

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It’s become the habit of news magazines to do a year-end retrospective. So looking back what were the great recipes, the good recipes, and the not-so-goods of last-year? I’m not normally a dessert person but most of the “sweet stuff” was really great. The January pudding-pie, December’s cake, and April’s lemon-raspberry cupcakes were all great. Both [...]

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Last year’s December issue is what inspired me to start this blog. This December’s issue didn’t dissapoint – Devil’s Food Cake with Peppermint Frosting !First onto the cake. I love to use my blender so making the cake was a lot of fun. The one thing I was a little intimidated about was cutting the [...]

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The end of the year draws nigh !  I am down to my last 2 last recipes to finish my resolution.
One of my last remaining recipes are April’s lemon-raspberry cupcakes. When this issue arrived I just wasn’t into this recipe. The cupcakes seemed incredibly spring-like, and more than a little gratuitous. Given that we were [...]

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I haven’t posted anything for a while but I haven’t been idle. Rather I’ve just been “planning deeply” ( is this ‘deliberate haste’?).
This month’s recipe was herb-roasted Turkey. Magazine schedules being what they are I received this issue in early October. It seemed a little early to begin the holiday season, so I wasn’t really in [...]

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This month’s recipe had a lot going for it. After all it’s hard to go wrong with a chili cooked with beer ! What could go wrong ?
It wasn’t too hard to do, I started by cooking onions and bacon with some beef. Then I added all the ingredients and put it in the oven [...]

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One of my ambitions this year was to make homemade pasta ( I’d asked for a pasta making attachment for my kitchen-aid for Christmas). This sunday I finally got around to it !
I chose to make Jamie Oliver’s ( the Naked Chef’s) ‘Lemon and Mint Caramela’, as it looked fun to do. To make it [...]

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The “family meal” theme of September’s issue was a nice touch. It made the restaurant issue very warm and approachable. This month’s recipe was Mario Batali’s “Chicken Parmesan“. I was determined to not like this but we’re in a “comfort food” groove at home right now and it fit in well.   
I really wanted to take the easy way out on [...]

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I’ve been eying buying a Bobby Flay cookbook for quite some time – and I finally broke down and bought Boy Gets Grill. Last night I did an all out Cuban combo – Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Guava Glaze and Orange Mojo, Black beans and Rice, Grilled plantain, Advocado and Tomato salad with Roasted Cumin [...]

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