a little zaftig

Midnight {triple chocolate} Cookies

by Laura 14 February 2012

This triple chocolate, slice-and-bake cookie is made with black cocoa, raw cacao nibs, and ground dark chocolate. It’s chewy with just a little crunch from a roll in turbinado sugar. The ultra-Dutched cocoa, dark chocolate, and raw cacao give the cookie great depth. If you don’t want to hunt down or special order ingredients, substitute [...]

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Feather Pillow Pancakes with Warm Lingonberries

by Laura 21 January 2012

My Honey Girl flew back to college tonight. Everywhere now, throughout the house, there are reminders of her, and of our last week together: a scarf hanging to dry after a walk in the snow, boots tossed in the hallway, the last blueberry pancake from our breakfast this morning wrapped in foil in the refrigerator, [...]

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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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Rich Blue Cornmeal and Applesauce Pancakes + Lost Things

by Laura 10 October 2011

The summer is fading now. I know it’s autumn, of course, but it’s been so unseasonably warm in Minnesota these past weeks that, despite the leaves changing color and blowing from the trees, in my mind it’s still summertime. And I wish it were still summer, before everything had changed and I had lost so [...]

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Nectarine Lemon Balm Tipple

by Laura 23 July 2011

We are in the throes of quite a peculiar summer: cold nearly ‘til July, and wet, relentlessly wet. And now steamy—literally. This morning I can see nothing from the windows of the house, save through the trickles, as it is wrapped in a dense and ghostlike condensation. They say that according to the heat index [...]

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English Summer Strawberry Trifle

by Laura 4 July 2011

When the house is helter-skelter, the list is too long, and my energy is flagging, the best thing I can do for myself is to invite friends for a meal. The cleaning and the cooking have to be done anyhow, I figure, so why not have the happy reward of their company at the end? [...]

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Lemon Balm Syrup

by Laura 2 July 2011

It’s my birthday today, so I’ll be brief. I’ve got celebrating to do! I made this lemon balm syrup the other day with a summer tipple in mind (recipe soon), but I think it would nice in iced tea or brushed onto cake layers, too. Lemon balm is a member of the mint family and [...]

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