[Photo: Robin Bellinger] I make pancakes a couple of times a month, but had never tried ricotta pancakes until last week. They were easier to flip than my regular buttermilk batch, had a delicately crisp exterior, and were thicker...
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[Photo: Robin Bellinger] This simple coffee cake is from Lucinda Scala Quinn's wonderful new book Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys. I've been immersed in this book for about a week; my mother sent it to me because my...
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[Photo: Robin Bellinger] I gather that some people didn't like opening Gourmet and seeing copy about fancy stuff, but my eyes went straight to the Gourmet Every Day section, where I always found something I was dying to cook....
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[Photo: Robin Bellinger] I can't say why The Art of Simple Food calls this an onion custard pie instead of a quiche, but I think the name switcheroo may have helped me get over an instinctive aversion to quiche...
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[Photo: Robin Bellinger] In casting about for a fruit salad that outshines your typical melon-grape-sad-strawberry combination, I came across this fall fruit compote in Chez Panisse Desserts. It's awfully sweet, and so maybe not quite right to serve as...
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[Photographs: Robin Bellinger] It's been a while since I baked something I simply could not resist (I've been experimenting with applesauce-sweetened, bran-laden toddler "cookies") so it was a relief to bite into this pumpkin tea cake and discover that...
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[Photo: Robin Bellinger] My husband recently accused me of eating steel-cut oats every morning, which I started doing about six months ago, because they are "trendy." My knee-jerk protest died in a splutter as I recalled that I adopted...
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"Another Dutch baby?" you say. "Ho-hum." Not so fast--this version of the dramatically puffed breakfast treat is showered with lemon-zest-spiked sugar, and the result is especially delectable. I like to use so much topping that I can feel the...
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[Photograph: Robin Bellinger] I don’t often eat brunch in restaurants. As a thrifty person who is perhaps unhealthily devoted to baking at home, I have neither the money nor the calories to spare for mediocre pancakes. The big draw...
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[Photographs: Robin Bellinger] Everyone knows muffins are really cake--The Cake Bible comes right out and calls these cupcakes--but compared to last week's crumb cake, these dense and delicious zucchini muffins are practically health food. Before the tins went into...
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