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Breakfasts

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

by Laura 29 March 2011
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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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Graham Cracker Pancakes + Exciting News

by Laura 25 March 2011
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My Honey Girl and I went maple sugaring this week, at a small family farm in Delano, Minnesota. The article I wrote about it will soon be published in Honest Cooking magazine. It’s my first piece as a contributing writer for them, and I’m quite excited about it. In the meantime, we are lapping up [...]

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Meyer Lemon Mascarpone Muffins

by Laura 23 March 2011
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We’ve been on a muffin tear this week.  But our Honey Girl’s Mr. Right arrives tomorrow morning from Alabama for a visit.  And since his favorite meal of the day is breakfast, she’s test driving another muffin idea we had tonight to make sure it’s perfect for an airport basket-full-of-love welcome.  As we were walking [...]

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Orange Chocolate Muffins

by Laura 20 March 2011
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My Honey Girl loves a good muffin.  Not an oil-oozing, oversized piece of pound cake in a muffin paper.  A true muffin.  Dainty.  Well flavored.   Muffin in nature with little relationship to cake.  She made these the day she arrived from college for spring break, from a recipe I improvised when she asked for one [...]

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Poached Pear & Fresh Ricotta Turnovers

by Laura 18 March 2011
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I’m not very good with non-critical deadlines.  Taxes, work, all good.  But I think I have missed entering the Pillsbury Bakeoff about ten times, and last time around I didn’t check the time of day that entries closed and, busy checking my recipe for the nth time, missed it by 11 minutes.  So, it should [...]

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Pearl Muffins & Winter Citrus Jelly

by Laura 12 March 2011
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I picked up my Honey Girl this morning from an early flight from Boston.  She is my pearl, my sunshine, my joy.  So it seemed fitting to make these pearl muffins and some shiny-wiggly, glowy-jiggly winter citrus jelly for her welcome-home breakfast.  I took the syrup I boiled down yesterday from the candied winter citrus [...]

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Homemade Yogurt with Winter Citrus Syrup

by Laura 10 March 2011
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I’m thinking this morning about long lost books. My books.  I have what is perhaps a peculiar emotional attachment to them.  And I wish they could return home to their places, still waiting, on my bookshelves.  Some of the books, I know, are well cared for and will return someday after their long excursions. The [...]

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Whole Wheat Gingerbread Pancakes

by Laura 2 March 2011
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When I begin to long for winter to melt into spring, for the crocuses to pop their heads up and to feel the sun on my face again, the best remedy is to make something that I would only cook in the wintertime. It’s a nice reminder of the excitement I feel when the season [...]

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Homemade Cultured Butter Pressed with a Hand-carved Butter Mold

by Laura 1 March 2011
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My Norwegian grandfather had something of a love affair with butter; he loved a pool in which to cook an egg or some hash, or a thick smear on toast.  But mostly, it was his tableside companion at every home-cooked dinner I can remember eating with him, and he was not shy with it.  A [...]

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Kouign Amann

by Laura 16 February 2011
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I don’t know whether to write a love poem to the Breton people, to David Lebovitz, or to kouign amann itself.  Oh, I love you, all three of you!  I have been daydreaming about a homemade kouign amann since I found out this week that a long lost friend from childhood has been living in [...]

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Heart-shaped Jam Doughnuts Rolled in Pink Sugar

by Laura 12 February 2011
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It doesn’t happen to me very often anymore—the last time was a disastrous shepherd’s pie over which we spent half an hour literally doubled over in laughter while making up alternate names for the recipe before we chucked it in the bin and headed to a restaurant for dinner—but I still have flops here and [...]

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