Photograph by Jeff Kubina on Flickr This week I am attempting to conquer my fear of baking by diving head first into a pie-baking extravaganza courtesy of Mollie Cox Bryan's comprehensive pie bible, Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern...
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Note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen! Recently, there was an article in Food & Wine about chef Tim Cushman, who was...
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I had never heard of the dessert known as a Buckle until a few weeks ago. I was at one of Beer Table's fantastic Tuesday night beer pairing dinners and the dessert was a blueberry buckle. It was somewhere in...
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Some of the best pancakes I have ever eaten were the buttermilk beauties served at the justifiably famous Al's Breakfast in Minneapolis, so I was thrilled to find the recipe for them in Guy Fieri's best-selling book Diners, Drive-Ins And...
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Christians have Blitzen; Jews have blintzes. Close, but not quite the same thing. The first is a reindeer, while the second is a traditional Jewish dish in which thin pancakes encase a creamy filling of cheese or fruit. I...
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To my mind, the only way to make a homemade pie even better is by smothering the top with a thick layer of sweet meringue. Patty Pinner, author of this week's Cook the Book selection, Sweetie Pies, agrees. In the...
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More than 35 years ago Joyce Carol, a friend of cookbook author Patty Pinner's mother, entered this Black and Blue Pie in a local baking contest, where it was chosen as first runner-up. According to Joyce Carol, it would have...
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When I made Edna Lewis's blueberry cake with blueberry sauce from her cookbook The Taste of Country Cooking I used a 9 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan, and my cake bubbled over a bit; next time I’ll set it...
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Replacing artificial colors and flavors with the natural charms of fresh berries and tangy cheesecake, nobody will miss the true blue in these delicious homespun versions of the familiar day-glo red-white-and-blue rocket pop. For a more in-depth how-to on...
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