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Recipes for Winter

Top Shelf Egg Nog

by Laura 21 December 2011

This egg nog combines excellent orange liqueur, brandy, and dark rum with egg-enriched heavy cream and whole milk. Share This: Recommend on FacebookShare on PinterestShare with StumblersTweet about itEmail a friend

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Five-minute Cranberry Schmutz

by Laura 14 December 2011

Alongside a Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey or smeared on sandwiches, this five-minute, four-ingredient cranberry schmutz is a little tart, a little sweet, and exactly perfect. I’m putting a little on a pumpkin muffin for breakfast, too. If there were ever a reason to stop sliding that factory cranberry sludge out of a can, this is [...]

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Seriously Simple Apple Tart with Hot Buttered Rum Raisin Sauce

by Laura 12 December 2011

Oh my, this is good. Our Honey Girl’s dear friend from college, Vickie, wrote to me to ask if I could suggest a recipe or two to use up apples that she had picked this fall at an orchard. After a little dance of joy around the kitchen, and with a dorm kitchen and limited [...]

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Cranberry Tart with Cognac-soaked Raisins, Tangerine Zest, and Dark Chocolate

by Laura 25 November 2011

If you, by chance, bought a couple of pints of fresh cranberries too many, or your market still has a stash, this tart is quite simple, and a lovely way to liven up Thanksgiving Day leftovers. Apart from warming some cognac with star anise in which to soak a handful of raisins, all of the [...]

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Cheese and Apple Salad

by Laura 6 May 2011

At our house, when you’re the birthday boy or girl, “plan your heart’s wishes, plan your menus, and enjoy” is the rule of the day. Here is our Sweet Boy’s supper menu for his 17th, which we celebrated Wednesday: filet of beef juicy Lucy (grilled filet stuffed with fresh mozzarella and wrapped in thick bacon), [...]

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Simple Leek and Potato Soup with Ham

by Laura 3 May 2011

Stubborn grey winter is hanging on in Minnesota. We had snow fall briefly yesterday and a couple of days before that, and the temperatures have been in the low 30s. The trees are still bare, but the buds have begun to pop on shrubs and lilacs despite the cold, and the owls have returned. On [...]

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Salted Date Pie

by Laura 13 April 2011

Well, just as I had smelled spring in the air, piles of snow as big as a school bus spied on my way to rosemaling class and news of another snow storm on its way to Minnesota have put me in the mood for a few more days of winter cooking. My Kaffeeklatsch are coming [...]

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Brown Butter Almond Cake with Homemade Citrus Jelly

by Laura 11 April 2011

It is 45 degrees here this morning. The sky is clear and big and bright blue, and the last of the snow is melting. Even the spot where the plows had pushed up a good eight feet at the end of the driveway has nearly disappeared. There is the smell of dirt and life in [...]

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Fresh Sheep’s Milk Ricotta Doughnuts with Warm Orange Honey & Cinnamon

by Laura 29 March 2011

This week I’m testing one of the editors’ pick candidates for Food52’s ricotta recipes contest. But, to be perfectly honest, I completely muddled the recipe. I haven’t been sleeping much for the last two years, too much work to allocate more time with my eyes at rest. So I thought I had faithfully transcribed the [...]

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Whipped Fresh Sheep’s Milk Ricotta with Frozen Blueberries

by Laura 27 March 2011

My Honey Girl and I attended a cheesemaking class with Jodi Ohlsen Read of Shepherd’s Way Farms yesterday, at a charming shop in St. Paul called Egg Plant Urban Farm Supply. I’m totally smitten. They stock baby chicks(!), chicken coop, gardening, cheesemaking, canning, and maple syrupping supplies, and more. It’s a small retail space, but [...]

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