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Archives for March 2013

Turkish Ground Beef and Pasta: Review of Bruce Aidell’s Great Meat Cookbook

March 27, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

The Good Cook had one of their bundle sales recently. I am hopeless in the face of a good cookbook bundle sale. All it takes is at least 2 or 3 books that I know I want, and I start searching for other books that I think are worth checking out at such fantastic prices. This time,… 

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Filed Under: beef, cookbooks, ground beef, Middle Eastern dishes, pasta, pomegranate, reviews, tomatoes, zucchini Tagged With: beef, ground beef, ground meat, Middle Eastern, noodles, pasta, pomegranate, Turkish

Browned Butter Milk Chocolate Brownies

March 24, 2013 By Laura 11 Comments

Browned Butter Milk Chocolate Brownies

This is the difference between a blogger-baker and a baker: when I needed to make a dessert for the teachers at my kids’ school for conference week and I was short on time, I chose my easy fallback, brownies. But because I am a blogger, I looked for a recipe I hadn’t made before instead… 

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Filed Under: browned butter, brownies, chocolate Tagged With: browned butter, brownies, chocolate, milk chocolate

Salted Vanilla Oatmeal Cookies/Review of Pure Vanilla

March 20, 2013 By Laura 10 Comments

Vanilla Oatmeal Cookies

I think by now regular readers of this blog know that I prefer thick, crispy on the outside but chewy on the inside cookies. So it should come as no surprise that these cookies were a huge hit by virtue of their texture alone. That their flavor is absolutely amazing just makes them that much… 

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Filed Under: chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookbooks, cookies, oats, reviews, whole grains Tagged With: cookbook review, cookies, oatmeal, oats, sea salt, vanilla, white chocolate

Pierogi Part 3 (potato filling and leftover pancakes)

March 17, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

And now we come to the pierogi that I love. The simple but oh-SO-decadent potato pierogi.** I prefer them simply boiled, with sour cream. With loads of onions in the filling. Upon the recommendation of Anne Applebaum, whose From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food guided our entire pierogi making… 

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Filed Under: easily made vegetarian, Polish cuisine, potato dishes, potatoes, ricotta Tagged With: bacon, cheddar, cheese, leftovers, onions, pasta, Polish, potato pancakes, potatoes

Pierogi Part 2 (Strawberries Macerated in Sweet Vodka)

March 15, 2013 By Laura 11 Comments

Pierogi stuffed with strawberries macerated in vodka

When Chris and I planned our pierogi making adventure, we talked about meat and potato fillings. Dessert never even crossed our minds. But then the day he came I was browsing Anne Applebaum’s From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food and I noticed that she had pierogi with a strawberry filling,… 

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Filed Under: berries, Boozy Desserts, misc. dessert, pasta, Polish cuisine, strawberries Tagged With: berries, dessert, pasta, pierogi, recipe, strawberries, vodka

Pierogi Making Adventure of 2013: Part 1 (Meat Fillings)

March 14, 2013 By Laura 6 Comments

Remember last fall when my brother and I made his famous Fist Sized Meatballs? We had so much fun that we had been talking about finding something else to cook. Recently Chris called, and said how about pierogi?

Filed Under: beef, ground beef, pasta, Polish cuisine, sausage Tagged With: bratwurst, ground beef, pasta, pierogi, Polish, sausage

Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde

March 10, 2013 By Laura 7 Comments

Tortilla Casserole with Beef Braised in Beer and Salsa Verde

Tortilla Casserole with Braised Beef in Beer and Salsa Verde tastes like it takes a lot more work than it does. Simple to make, especially if you have access to good salsa verde, it is a reliably delicious one pot meal. I have made it many times over the last fifteen (!) years, enough so… 

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Filed Under: beef, beef chuck, casseroles, Mexican dishes Tagged With: beef, beef chuck, beer, braising, casserole, corn tortilla, lager, peppers, salsa verde, tomatillos

#BundtAMonth: Vanilla Orange Bundt Cake with a Hint of Coconut

March 7, 2013 By Laura 20 Comments

Orange Vanilla Bundt Cake with a Hint of Coconut

This cake was by far the biggest Bundt A Month challenge I have faced. Confession: I don’t usually care for tropical desserts. And tropical is March’s theme. Have you ever noticed that the hotter the climate gets, the sweeter the desserts get? Not richer or unhealthier, but just naturally sweeter. Rice puddings, custards… They are… 

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Filed Under: blog events, Boozy Desserts, bundt cakes, cakes, oranges Tagged With: #BundtaMonth, booze, bundt, cake, citrus, coconut, extra virgin coconut oil, orange, vanilla bean

#ChocolateParty: Chocolate Dulce de Leche Bars

March 4, 2013 By Laura 23 Comments

When Roxana from Roxana’s Home Baking announced the theme for this month’s Chocolate Party was caramel, I had mixed feelings. I am very picky about caramel, and often do not care for it with chocolate. It is just so sweet. But then inspiration struck, I could use milk caramel, i.e., dulce de leche, about which I am… 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, blog events, caramel, chocolate, shortbread Tagged With: baking, bars, caramel, chocolate, dulce de leche, milk caramel, shortbread

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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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