Category: Recipes
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Dark Chocolate & Espresso Truffles
Dark Chocolate, meet espresso. Espresso, meet dark chocolate. I knew you two would get along. Here’s my second truffle for my week-long extension to Sugar High Friday’s Truffle Edition. The…
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Trufflicious (SHF #25) Day 1: Dark Chocolate & Lemon
It’s Sugar High Friday time again! Yes, I know it’s not Friday yet… but when I saw that the theme was truffles, hosted this month by The Passionate Cook, I…
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Apples, Pumpkin Stuffed and Roasted
What could be better than an autumn spiced pumpkin puree? How about an autumn spiced pumpkin puree stuff inside a Jones Creek Jonagold apple? It’s a perfect little caper to…
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Small Bounties: The West Seattle Farmer's Market
I miss all the photos on my blog. I have a whole heap of restaurant reviews that I need to start posting, all of which will be sadly devoid of…
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Of Mice and Marathons: Lessons Learned in New York City
What a whirlwind of a trip. Four days in New York City is certainly not enough. Between the marathon and the meals, endless crosstown taxi rides, many miles put on…
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Flognarde
I can’t quite figure out why it takes 3 or 4 months to get Australian food magazines into the shops here in the States. One month, sure. I’d understand. I…
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Tea & Chocolate
When you think chocolate, the tea isn’t the first thing that will likely pop into your mind. Recent trends in chocolatiering might be changing that with tea-infused chocolate truffles and…
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Matsutake Mushroom Madness
A few weeks ago, I joined a group of fellow food-photo enthusiasts on a little trip to the West Seattle farmer’s market. Although quite small, the market is still going…
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Persimmon Madeleines
I’m sitting here trying to figure out how I made it 37 years without ever tasting a persimmon. I’m finding it quite unimaginable, and yet, it’s true. I just never…
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Trick or Treat? Dark Chocolate Martini
Perhaps you might be lured in by this simplest of chi-chi martini’s, all dressed up in chocolate. You’d take a sip expecting some sugary concoction with dark cocoa undertones. You’d…
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Weekend Herb Blogging: Thai Pesto Pasta
I just realized that I have about 150 posts here on Cookbook 411, but not a one of them has been for Weekend Herb Blogging (created by Kayln, and this…
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Small is the new Big: SHF#24
I don’t know about you, but when I am given a huge dessert, I always end up leaving a good chunk of it on the plate, regardless of how tasty…