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Bread

Savory Breakfast Bread Pudding with Fiddlehead Ferns, Sausage, Caramelized Leeks and Red Spring Onions, & Gruyere

by Laura 23 May 2011
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One pan, some pork sausage browned, caramelized leeks and red spring onion tossed in behind to caramelize, then in go fiddlehead ferns to sauté with some garlic.  All of this is tossed into a buttered baking dish over a cubed loaf of crusty country bread.  It’s topped with grated Gruyere, and eggs and cream are [...]

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Boozy Hot Cross Buns with Rum Brown Sugar Butter

by Laura 5 April 2011
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When you’re done with the egg hunt, the Easter bonnet has been pulled off and tossed aside, when churching and snapping pictures are past, and you’re ready for a buttery breakfast roll or something sweet next to your slice of ham, make these.  They are a bit on the time intensive side, but nearly all [...]

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A Banana Bread Spectacular :: From Plain Jane Loaf to Homey Dessert: Banana Bread Sautéed in Clarified Butter with Caramelized Bananas & Flaming Whisky Sauce, Tea Cake with Celtic Crossing Frosting, and More!

by Laura 16 March 2011
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Our Sweet Boy Freddy woke up to a happy surprise.  His friend Carly came over to bake with me Sunday morning.  Much silliness ensued. I told my friend William yesterday that I suffer from recipe brain.  It’s a blessing, until it isn’t.  It wakes me up, keeps me up, and seldom lets me rest.  I [...]

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Santa Bread

by Laura 24 December 2010
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It’s Christmas Eve morning and, as usual, I’m so excited I can’t sleep.  I usually get up before 5:00 every year, and when my Honey Girl and my Sweet Boy were little ones they were up with me, too, waiting for my Dear Husband.  We would gallop around the house before we started shaping the [...]

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