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I know… it seems like I did a lot of traveling this summer. Because of the nature of my job, I’m really only allowed to take my vacation days during the summer months (with exceptions here and there, for short three-day weekend trips and such), so I generally try to do the big vacations in [...]

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Three months after our Mediterranean cruise, I give you the last installment of our two-week vacation: Istanbul, Turkey. Spain, Italy and Greece were wonderful, but the place I was most excited to visit during our cruise was Turkey. I have a slight obsession with Middle Eastern food and culture, and was so looking forward to spending [...]

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If there is anything I always have in my refrigerator, it’s Fuji apples. I love how sweet and crisp they are. So I was excited to see that Dorie suggested them for her flaky apple turnovers. It’s not often that you see a sweet variety of apple as the star of a pastry-enveloped treat. Usually, [...]

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It’s almost fall, and I still haven’t posted about all the amazing ports of call we stopped at during our two-week Mediterranean cruise earlier this summer. One of the places we were most excited to visit—or revisit, I guess I should say—was Greece. B and I gorged on great Greek food when we vacationed there last [...]

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Hmm… what did I do wrong? I’m so sad that Dorie’s Espresso Cheesecake Brownies didn’t come out that great for me. While they were beautiful—quite possibly the most beautiful Dorie creation I’ve created to date—they just didn’t come out tasting good.

The brownie layer was fantastic, but the cheesecake layer tasted, well, eggy. And the weird [...]

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