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Archives for January 2013

Salted Browned Butter Blondies & A Review of OXO’s Mini Beakers

January 30, 2013 By Laura 6 Comments

Word to the wise, my friends. When you are taking Flagyl and supposed to be avoiding even the slightest trace of alcohol, that includes vanilla extract in baked goods. Let’s just not even talk about how I know.

Filed Under: bar cookies, browned butter, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, kids cooking, reviews, Tools Tagged With: bar cookies, blondies, browned butter, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookies, kids baking, mini beakers, OXO

Thai Inspired Beef Noodle Soup

January 27, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

pig's foot in beef stock

Guys, the doctors think I have a C. Difficile infection. That is all I am going to say, because, well, this is a food blog after all. And you don’t wanna hear about it any more than I want to think about it (although if you are wondering why, it is probably from being on… 

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Filed Under: beef, beef chuck, beef stew, cabbage, rice noodles, soup, Thai dishes Tagged With: beef, broth, cabbage, cilantro, nam prik pao, pig's feet, rice noodles, round steak, soup, Southeast Asian, steak, stock, Thai

Chocolate Glazed Latte Cake

January 23, 2013 By Laura 15 Comments

This place has been dessert central lately. Don’t fret, I have not given up my beef braising, curry paste pounding, bean cooking ways. But this has been a hell of a winter for germs, and as long time readers know, I am the original germ magnet. Why is that relevant? Because baking is fun, relaxing,… 

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Filed Under: bundt cakes, cakes, chocolate, coffee desserts, ganache Tagged With: bundt, cake, chocolate, coffee, espresso, food photography, ganache, latte

Cook, Eat, Tweet Mujadarra!

January 20, 2013 By Laura 4 Comments

Mujadarra is a classic Middle Eastern dish of rice, lentils and caramelized onions, and it is the definition of comfort food as far as I am concerned. Affiliate links have been used in this post to items I am linking to. Guys! Cook, Eat, Tweet was so much fun! Not to mention delicious! If you… 

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Filed Under: blog events, lentils, Middle Eastern dishes, pantry cooking, rice, vegetarian, yogurt Tagged With: caramelized onions, fried egg, Middle Eastern, mujadara, mujadarra, onions, pilaf, rice, spices, vegetarian, yogurt

#BundtaMonth: Citrus Bundt Cake with Sparkling Wine and Fiori di Sicilia… Trifle

January 16, 2013 By Laura 16 Comments

unglazed mojito bundt cake

You might have guessed from both my title and my picture that this month’s BundtAMonth did not go as planned. The first problem was that I just did not have many occasions on which to bake a bundt cake, given that I was sick throughout the holidays. Then, when I did make one, I made… 

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Filed Under: blog events, bundt cakes, cakes, fiori di sicilia extract, lemon baked goods, misc. dessert, mousse, oranges Tagged With: #BundtaMonth, bundt, cake, citrus, fiori di sicilia, lemon, orange, recipe, sparkling wine, trifle, vinho verde

Late Night One Bowl Vanilla Sour Cream Cake

January 14, 2013 By Laura 3 Comments

Plain or simple are not works I associate with the cooking I do. Ironically, therefore, my baking is pretty much the opposite; I don’t like too many flavors going on at the same time. And when I am sick, as I was over Christmas, I want my desserts to be even more plain. Almost boring… 

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Filed Under: cakes, misc. dessert, pantry cooking, reviews, Tools, whole grains Tagged With: cake, magisso cake server, one bowl, recipe, sheet cake, sour cream, vanilla

Browned Butter Snickerdoodles

January 12, 2013 By Laura 8 Comments

Browned Butter Snickerdoodles

These are the Browned Butter Snickerdoodles I told you about in my Top 13 post. I have noticed that some snickerdoodles are super chewy and flat, while some are thick, with either a chewy or cakey interior. Both are delicious. Having not grown up with any kind of snickerdoodle tradition, I have no inherent preference…. 

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Filed Under: browned butter, cookies, fall spices Tagged With: browned butter, cinnamon, cookies, recipe, snickerdoodles, spices

Cook, Eat & Tweet: #AnEdibleMosaic’s Lentil and Bulgur Pilaf with Caramelized Onion

January 8, 2013 By Laura 2 Comments

I have big news! Do you remember when I told you guys about joining Kitchen Play’s new project, Cookbook Tour? Well, we have an awesome new event going on to support Faith’s book, An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair, called Cook, Eat and Tweet. Basically those of us involved in the project… 

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Filed Under: blog events, cookbooks, lentils, Middle Eastern dishes, reviews, vegetarian, whole grains Tagged With: bulgur, cookbook, event, lentils, mujaddara, onions, twitter

Chicken Noodle Soup with Mushrooms, Ginger and Chinese 5 Spice

January 6, 2013 By Laura 10 Comments

browning chicken thighs for soup

It got worse before it got better, folks. At this point it honestly feels like all of December went by in a blur of holiday baking and upper respiratory infections. The baking you already know about. The flu came right after Thanksgiving followed by 2 different bouts of strep throat followed by the nastiest of… 

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Filed Under: cabbage, chicken, cookbooks, easily made vegetarian, fall spices, mushrooms, reviews, rice noodles, soup Tagged With: asian, cabbage, chicken, chicken thighs, chinese 5 spice, cookbooks, crimini, mushrooms, rice noodles, soup, stew

Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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