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Archives for September 2013

Buttermilk Glazed Buttermilk Chocolate Snack Cake; OXO Brownie Spatula

September 28, 2013 By Laura 11 Comments

There are compliments, and then there are compliments. Guys, I received just about the sweetest, biggest, best compliment I have ever received on anything I have ever baked or cooked for this cake. But let me start at the beginning. As soon as I saw this cake in The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook: Recipes and… 

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Filed Under: buttermilk, cakes, chocolate, cooks' tools, kids cooking, reviews, Tools Tagged With: buttermilk, cake, chocolate, cocoa, glaze, natural cocoa, OXO, review, sheet cake, snacking cake

Salt Crusted Potatoes with Cilantro-Garlic Mojo: Cooking with Chris

September 25, 2013 By Laura 7 Comments

I am SO excited to share this recipe with you! The most exciting part about it, the method of cooking the potatoes, is more of a technique, and a ridiculously simple one at that, but still the results were so delicious and impressive in a rustic kind of way.

Filed Under: potato dishes, potatoes, sauces, Spanish cuisine, vegetarian Tagged With: cilantro, fingerling, garlic, mojo, potatoes, salt-crusted, sauce, Spanish

Halloween Sprinkled Slice-and-Bake Cookies; Review of 250 Best Cookies

September 23, 2013 By Laura 7 Comments

Halloween Sprinkled Refrigerator Cookies

When Robert Rose sent me The 250 Best Brownies, Bars and Squares they also sent me The 250 Best Cookie Recipes, both by Esther Brody. As I mentioned in my review of the bars and brownies version these books are not really cookbooks you would read or browse for pleasure. They are more utilitarian, a resource of… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, cookies, dairy free baking, reviews Tagged With: cookbook review, cookies, Halloween, icebox, lard, refrigerator cookie, slice and bake, sprinkles

Heirloom Tomato on Bacon Cornmeal Griddle Cake with Bacon-Basil Mayo; Review of Fire In My Belly

September 20, 2013 By Laura 3 Comments

Sliced Tomato on Corn Flatbread with Bacon Basil Mayonnaise

You guys may be seeing more cookbook reviews around here. I decided I do so many of them for free and on my own dime, I might as well reach out to various publishers and see if they would send me review copies of the books I am interested in. And they did! This blogging… 

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Filed Under: bacon, buttermilk, cookbooks, pancakes, reviews, Southern food, tomatoes, whole grains Tagged With: bacon, basil, cookbook, cornbread, griddle cakes, heirloom tomatoes, hill bill tomato, mayo, mayonnaise, pancakes, review, southern, tomato

Pecan Chocolate Bars: Creative Cookie Exchange

September 17, 2013 By Laura 17 Comments

Pecan Oat Chocolate Bars

I am super excited to share my latest blogging event with you guys! It is called Creative Cookie Exchange, and, well, I started it! This makes me feel extra brave, which probably makes you think I don’t get out much. I love Chocolate Party and Bundtamonth, and I really wanted a similar group for cookies…. 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, blog events, chocolate, cookbooks, cookies, oats, pecans, reviews, whole grains Tagged With: #CreativeCookieExchange, back to school, bar cookies, chocolate, cookies, Maida Heatter, nuts, oats, pecans, whole grains

Maple Doodles: #CookiesForKidsCancer

September 14, 2013 By Laura 6 Comments

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is an organization I have been supporting since I first became aware of it. You can read more about my discovering them and what they do here, but basically I became aware of them through OXO, as OXO is one of their big supporters and I work with OXO Blogger Outreach. Anyway,… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, cookies, cooks' tools, kids cooking, maple, reviews, Tools Tagged With: #CookiesForKidsCancer, #OXOGoodBrownie #OXOGoodCookie, cinnamon, cookies, Cookies for Kids' Cancer, maple, snickerdoodles

Review of Easy Indian Cooking by Suneeta Vaswani

September 13, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

Curried Chicken with Yogurt, Saffron and Dried Methi Leaves

 Chicken Curry with Saffron and Dried Fenugreek Leaves I have had a lot of conversations with other bloggers lately about what it means to review a cookbook. I have come to the conclusion that I am in the minority in my viewpoint, and because of that I thought I would set the record straight and… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, Indian recipes, reviews Tagged With: cookbook, cookbook review, curries, Indian, review

Gingerbread Bars/Review of Esther Brody’s 250 Best Bars and Brownies

September 12, 2013 By Laura 11 Comments

I was recently sent Esther Brody’s The 250 Best Brownies, Bars and Squares to review. I was a little skeptical before receiving the book; the somewhat personality-less “250 Best!” format is not really to my taste. On the other hand, any collection of 250 baked goods deserves to be perused. The verdict?

Filed Under: bar cookies, cakes, cookbooks, dairy free baking, fall spices, kids cooking, molasses, reviews Tagged With: 250 best bars, bars, cake, cinnamon, cookbook review, ginger, gingerbread, kids baking, snacking cake

Thai Laksa Inspired Beef Stew with Mushrooms, Shallots and Tomatoes

September 10, 2013 By Laura 14 Comments

Curried Beef Short Ribs with Mushrooms and Shallots

It is funny, the way you can raise 2 kids close to the same (although of course not identically) and have them turn out so differently. I may have mentioned Sammy is my sensitive one where Alex is more prosaic. Well we have finally had a fish death.

Filed Under: beef, beef stew, curry, curry powder, mushrooms, rice, stews, Thai dishes, tomatoes Tagged With: beef, beef stew, curry, laksa, mushrooms, shallots, short ribs, stew, Thai, tomatoes

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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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