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Spiced Cherry Cheesecake Bars

October 6, 2019 By Laura 4 Comments

Spiced Cherry Cheesecake Bars

Spiced Cherry Cheesecake Bars are perfect for sour cherries frozen in the spring, when they are picked, and then turned into a fall treat with cloves and cinnamon. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing below. Well the computer is still having problems so if I disappear that is why,… 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, cheesecake, cherries, cookbook reviews, cookbooks, cookies, cream cheese, reviews, shortbread Tagged With: baking cookbook, baking spices, bar cookies, bars, cheesecake, cheesecake bars, cherries, cookies, fall, fall baking, fall spices, sour cherries

Brown Sugar Maple Oatmeal Cookies: #CreativeCookieExchange

April 19, 2016 By Laura 15 Comments

Brown Sugar Maple Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Cherries--or raisins!

Brown Sugar Maple Oatmeal Cookies are thick, sturdy, chewy cookies that can be made with raisins for added sweetness or dried tart cherries for zing. Keep reading to see what other cookies the Creative Cookie Exchange bakers would make in honor of their mothers for Mother’s Day! My choice for this month’s Creative Cookie Exchange… 

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Filed Under: blog events, cherries, cookies, Dried Cherries, dried fruit, oats, whole grains Tagged With: #CreativeCookieExchange, cookies, Creative Cookie Exchange, dried cherries, dried fruit, oatmeal, oats, raisins, rolled oats

#ChocolateParty: Crumb Cake with White Chocolate Chunks and Sour Cherries

June 10, 2013 By Laura 26 Comments

Tart Cherry Crumb Cake with White Chocolate Chunks

I am obviously late with Chocolate Party this month, submitting as a participant and not a host. Here is the deal–the theme for June is chocolate and cherries. Cherries. As a blogger they are becoming my arch enemy because they are so beloved by foodies but I just really dislike them. And you cannot find… 

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Filed Under: blog events, cakes, cherries, chocolate, cooks' tools, fruit, reviews, Tools Tagged With: cherries, chocolate, crumble, sour cherries, tart cherries, white chocolate

Traditional Irish American Soda Bread

April 10, 2013 By Laura 8 Comments

Traditional Irish American Scones

Soda bread: it’s not just for St. Patrick’s Day anymore. OK, so that is a little misleading, because as usual I did make this for St. Patrick’s Day, only, you know, on St. Patrick’s Day, leading me to not post it until after the holiday. But seriously, as soon as I bit into one of these all I… 

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Filed Under: breakfast, buttermilk, cherries, dried fruit, hazelnuts, quick breads, scones, whole grains Tagged With: bread, buttermilk, caraway seeds, dried fruit, hazelnut, Irish, Irish American, quick bread, scones, soda bread

#BundtAMonth: Mahlab Vanilla Bundt Cake

April 3, 2013 By Laura 23 Comments

I cannot decide if this qualifies as a bundt cake! I don’t know why, when I planned to make my BundtAMonth cake at my in laws’ house, it did not occur to me to bring a pan. I guess I forget not everyone lives in my world of owning 3,000 bundt pans.  So this cake… 

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Filed Under: blog events, bundt cakes, cakes, cherries, Middle Eastern dishes Tagged With: #BundtaMonth, bundt, cake, cherries, mahlab, vanilla

Parsi Inspired Chicken Curry with Mangoes and Cherries

February 5, 2013 By Laura 4 Comments

dried fruit soaking for a curry

Hooray! I can eat again! I started off with no fiber kheemas and then graduated to this delicious dried fruit curry. Is there anything better than being able to eat again after having had a restricted diet for any reason?

Filed Under: cherries, chicken, curry, Dried Cherries, dried fruit, easily made vegetarian, fruit, Indian recipes, mango, pantry cooking Tagged With: cherries, chicken, curry, dried fruit, fruit, Indian, mangoes, recipe

Coconut and Dried Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

December 20, 2010 By Laura 12 Comments

Oatmeal raisin cookies have never done much for me. They are my mom’s favorite cookie, so I ate them plenty growing up, but I never lowed the raisins and the overall cookie I found blah. Enter Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich, my new favorite cookbook. I have not made one dud… 

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Filed Under: cherries, Coconut (flaked), cookies, Dried Cherries, dried fruit, oats Tagged With: cherries, coconut, coconut flakes, cookies, dried cherries, dried fruit, nut-free, nutfree, oatmeal, oats

Family Recipes: Susan’s Sour Cherry Pie

June 27, 2009 By Laura 8 Comments

Do you have any dishes that while not your favorite, will remain indelibly associated in your mind with a particular family member? That it is important to you to learn to make just because that dish is a part of your culinary heritage, even though it is not your cup of tea? That is my… 

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Filed Under: cherries, family recipes, pies

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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