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Rosemary Citrus Biscotti & Cashew Chipotle Beer Brittle: Review of The Daily Cookie

December 10, 2012 By Laura 6 Comments

Chipotle Cashew Beer Brittle

Was holiday cookie baking and candy making a tradition in your childhood? It was in mine. My grandma would come to visit and she and my mom would churn out gazillions of Date Nut Pinwheels and some other dried fruit/nut cookie that I don’t remember the name of (I confess I never ate either as… 

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Filed Under: biscotti, Boozy Desserts, brittle, candy, cookbooks, cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, lemon baked goods, Pistachios, reviews, sweet confections Tagged With: beer, biscotti, brittle, candy, cashews, citrus, cookbook review, cookies, lemon, orange, pistachios, rosemary, white chocolate

Ruperto’s Tender Flaky Cookies: A Great Dairy Free Cookie to Satisfy Shortbread Cravings

May 14, 2011 By Laura 18 Comments

With apologies to my dairy free friends who also keep kosher or halal, I have to tell you that these cookies were so delicious, so sublime, that they might have replaced traditional butter-based Scottish shortbread for my favorites of this type of cookie (I will continue to make both though, because Scottish shortbread is fabulous… 

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Filed Under: cookies, dairy free baking, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, shortbread, Spanish cuisine Tagged With: cinnamon, cookies, dairy-free, lard, lemon, shortbread, Spanish

Meyer Lemon Thins & A Cookbook Review

January 26, 2011 By Laura 15 Comments

I am not sure I have given Alice Medrich’s Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies a proper review. I’ve now made 5 cookies from it: these, Extra Chocolatey Biscotti (they did not make it on to the blog because of traveling, but I hope to feature them soon), “Hawaiian” Wedding Cookies, Chocolate Mint Sandwiches, and… 

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Filed Under: cookbooks, cookies, lemon baked goods, reviews Tagged With: citrus, cookbook review, cookies, lemon, Meyer lemon, slice and bake

Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu

January 21, 2011 By Laura 17 Comments

Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu

I have been staring at this recipe for 2 years in Lori Longbotham’s Luscious Lemon Desserts, and I finally decided that it is the perfect post-holiday dessert to serve to company. On the one hand, everyone is totally done with (for a while) chocolate, nuts, mint… but on the other hand you cannot serve wheat… 

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Filed Under: blueberries, lemon baked goods, mascarpone, misc. dessert Tagged With: blueberries, lemon, mascarpone, tiramisu

Lemon-Vanilla Pizzelles, Take 1

December 7, 2010 By Laura 19 Comments

Growing up, there were several cookies that graced our Christmas tins every single year without fail. Wedding cookies, decorated sugar cut-outs, date-nut pin wheels, pizzelles…. Some traditional cookies I have kept, such as the wedding cookies and painted sugar cut-outs. Some, mostly those involving dried fruits, I have left behind. I have never made pizzelles… 

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Filed Under: cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, Italian American, lemon baked goods Tagged With: christmas, citrus, cookies, Holidays, Italian, Italian American, lemon, pizzelles

Rosemary, Lemon & Olive Oil Tea Bread

November 9, 2010 By Laura 12 Comments

I have to apologize for the photos of this bread. I baked the bread for a meeting of my book club (one held at someone else’s house), and like a dunce totally forgot to take any pictures in my house, with my lighting and my camera. So I just snapped a few shots with my… 

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Filed Under: lemon baked goods, misc. dessert, quick breads Tagged With: bread, cake, lemon, olive oil, pine nuts, quick bread, rosemary

Strawberry Lemon Pâte de Fruit

October 26, 2010 By Laura 11 Comments

I thought these would take a great picture, but in reality they look much better sans sugar. So just know you would eat them coated in sugar. What are they? They are what I prefer to call pâte de fruit, because pectin fruit jelly just sounds so blah. But in Europe they are pâte de… 

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Filed Under: candy, strawberries Tagged With: berries, candy, citrus, confections, fruit pectin jelly, lemon, Pâte de Fruit, strawberry

Scones For Playgroup

February 10, 2009 By Laura 7 Comments

Butter Scones with Dried Fruit

Someone just made my day! Amanda, of My Finds Online, has listed me #2 of her Top 25 Recipe Blogs of 2009! Wow! I’ve gotten some cool awards, but I gotta admit this one is really exciting! Thanks, Amanda! As you all know, I hosted playgroup for the first time this week. And promptly freaked… 

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Filed Under: buttermilk, dried fruit, lemon baked goods, quick breads, scones Tagged With: breakfast, brunch, butter, dried fruit, fruit, lemon, scones

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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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