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May 8

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Whole wheat buttermilk lemon muffins

One of my favorite times to bake is a lazy weekend morning – a morning with no reservations at spin class or a goal for miles to run, with no 10 a.m. obligations to be at work or someone’s house, or too many errands to run. I love spending time in the kitchen with natural light (my camera likes that too), baking in pajamas and with no thoughts about even coming near a hair brush. NPR or maybe some new Fleet Foxes on the speakers, mug of latte at hand.  (See entry Weekend Mornings, in “Utopian visions of what Bowen’s life should be like” Vol. II.)

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May 6

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Perfecting Gram’s chocolate chip cookies: Part I

If I had to boil my entire existence down to one food item, it would be my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies (I talked about them once before, here). If I had to eat only one food item for the rest of my life (with no regard to health, of course), I’d likely respond the same way. Over my lifetime I have eaten many dozens, if not hundreds, of these cookies and likely my weight in the cookie dough – whether scooped by sneaky 5-year-old fingers or spooned blatantly by 16-year-old hands. Read more

Apr 26

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Awesome vegan chocolate peanut butter cookies

I have something exciting to tell you.

No, it’s not that I have five different open containers of cocoa powder in my pantry.  (And I wonder why I never have any room in there.) But it does have to do with the photo. Read more

Apr 25

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Koulouri-Cypriot village bread

We’ve been pretty busy around here lately – exhaustingly, chaotically busy, to tell you the truth.  Cooking has required obnoxiously meticulous planning of shopping and timelines, which can get pretty tiring. But yesterday was more low-key than most days have been and I finally had the luxury of picking up a cookbook and picking something, somewhat at random. In need of some dinner to go with our ham-and-eggs leftovers dinner plans, I picked up for the first time our copy of 100 Great Breads by Paul Hollywood, which I chose out of a bookstore sale bin one day a couple of years ago. You already have a sense of my hesitancy for those types of books, but every book on the shelf deserves a good chance (besides, I’ve got this pesky List to deal with). Read more

Apr 19

Maybe I should try something other than pasta …

It’s happened again. Another dish made for the purposes of the list, another thing I’m not ready to share because it just wasn’t that great. (Another use of the “disappointment” tag I started to give myself a chuckle and was hoping wouldn’t surface again.) It didn’t make me immediately made me scroll through my mental calendar to figure out when I could make again, which is what normally happens with the items I write about. Read more

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