Archive for the ‘Sweet Dishes’ Category
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Sweets for a sweet life: Guest post by Marla Meridith
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
This is a guest post by Marla Meridith
{Red, White & Blue Mixed Berry Parfait}A Love Affair:
I have always loved the taste of sweet but it does not love me as much. My body is super sensitive to refined sugars & starches. I did not understand that until a few years ago. Put something sweet [...] -
Apple crumb pie: How not to burn the crust edge!
Monday, August 9th, 2010
There are missile shields, patio shields, even panty shields. So why should the kitchen be without some sort of shield on something? Spending precious hours preparing pie crusts only to have the edges burn calls for some protection device indeed…I know, I’ve made enough pies in my day to know that golden brown does not [...]
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“Fried” apples with Yacon syrup: Yacon syrup, a new sweetener
Monday, July 26th, 2010
There is honey and maple syrup, and in recent years agave nectar has joined to form a trio of popular liquid sweeteners. Now along comes Yacon syrup. I know, WTH is Yacon syrup!? Yacon syrup is an extraction from the Yacon plant, botanically related to the sunflower family but tastes similar to jicama. The plant [...]
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A jam worth not making ~ Recipe: Farmhouse French almond fruit tart
Monday, May 17th, 2010
I just completed an article for a magazine on the joys of preparing homemade jam. Jars and jars later of blueberry, cherry, peach and strawberry sweetness convinced me that while jam is fun to make, if I could find jarred jam that met my picky requirements, I might give up the sterilized jars forever.
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Today’s Fabulous Food Finds Kitchen Olympics winner: Silver medalist Jessie Grearson of Falmouth, ME
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Someone loves her zester microplane, and we love that you do Jessie. Your Silver Medal winning recipe for Ginger Lemon Golden Cream Tea Scones is deserving of such a great tool.
Jesse is the winner of a $100 gift certificate to Sur La Table.
Kudos for creating a scone not laden with so much butter it literally weighs [...]
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I “wood” bake in this ~ Recipe: Orange macadamia nut bread
Monday, March 29th, 2010
First there was metal. Then glass. Then silicone. And now…wood?? Leave it to the fabulous French to invent a product that not only works well in the oven, but has flair and style too. When shopping for this week’s finds I stumbled upon a most marvelous product from the Panibois Company located in [...]
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No work cast iron skillet ~ Recipe: Cast iron Granny Smith crisp
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Last spring I had no fewer than 10 cast iron skillets from various clients in my home. My kitchen was turned into a workshop/lab for these distressed pans. Clients needed my wisdom to diagnose what went wrong. A few were so rusty, that orange was the new black. Others had so much [...]
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Have your peanut butter and eat it too ~ Recipe:
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Leave it to Mom. My mom, a self professed peanut butter addict knew too much of a good thing is well… not a good thing (I think all mothers have a sixth sense about that one!). Even with her slender figure and tiny frame, she worried that her practically everyday peanut butter habit was adding [...]
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A jam that’s anything but the same old, same old ~ Recipe: Mini phyllo tarts with vanilla custard and uchuva
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Tired of strawberry jam? Maybe you’ve had just about enough grape jelly to last a lifetime. Why not try something completely new? Uchuva Cape Goose Berries is a fruit spread that will add life and luster to your morning breakfast spread. The Natural Nectar company produces a wide range of musical [...]
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Gluten free: free and easy ~ Recipe: Spicy gingerbread cookies
Monday, February 1st, 2010
More and more in my practice as a nutritionist I have patients with gluten allergies. Even as a professional , we still don’t know the causes of such what seems like epidemic numbers of people needing a gluten free diet. Until we know what may be at the root of the problem, delicious food should [...]