Category: Recipes
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A New Toy and Lotus Chips
First, it was making my own lard. Now, I’ve gone and bought myself a deep fryer! What’s next? I’m pretty sure it’s moon pies and Dr. Pepper.
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Almost Spring Spice Crepes
Recently, I was flipping through the The Northwest Best Places Cookbook, and one of the first recipes that caught my eye was for Gingerbread Crepes. I’m not really sure why…
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More Piadina Please
A few years ago, if you had asked me what my favorite restaurant in Seattle was, I could have answered without hesitation. This is pretty unusual for me… I’m not…
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Lard Help Me
This has to be one of the weirdest posts to transition to after last week’s post on vegan coconut fudge. I briefly mentioned in that post that I was in…
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My Sweet Vegan
I don’t really do cookbook reviews on this site. But, when I received a very personal email from the publisher of My Sweet Vegan asking me if I’d take a…
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Tasty Veggie Dips
It’s not like you really need another dip recipe. Not only are there old standbys, but there are some really gorgeous looking alternatives out there this week. So these two…
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Savory Cream Scones with Cheese and Bacon
I’m not sure what this says about us, but we received large packages of bacon this year from not one, but two different people. I mean big packages of bacon.…
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Udon with no Shoes On
Before the holidays, I was browsing in the bookstore that is attached to Uwajamiya, one of Seattle’s large Asian food grocery stores. I was there to find some manga as…
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Three Cheese Cake
Cheesecake intimidates me. The last time I made a cheesecake it turned out fine. Good, even… but the really tasty part was the freshly peeled mandarin orange haphazardly strewn about…
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Cheater's Puff Pastry Pinwheels
How can you not love a recipe that starts with this dough is magical? And, in fact it is. This rugelach dough that I found in Kate Zukerman’s The Sweet…
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A Cake to Start With
Christmas comes slowly to our house. I have many friends and family members who have decorations in place as early as the day after Thanksgiving and all their presents bought…
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Quince and Cranberry Bustrengo
I’ve been having one of those weeks where I want to bake, but my ideals are getting in the way. I want to make just the right thing… so I…