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I’m back! And what a week to join in on the fun!
I loved this bread. I think chocolate and bananas are such a winning combination. Usually, I have ripe bananas waiting for me in the freezer, but I must have used all of them because I couldn’t find any. So I purposefully bought a bunch [...]

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Happy New Year!
Wow…it has been way too long since I last posted. Why have I been away for so long?
Well, for about nine weeks straight, I had absolutely NO desire to step into the kitchen. I also had an incredible aversion to sweets of any kind. Can you believe it? Me? An aversion to sweets? [...]

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What a sad week it’s been for the food world. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that Gourmet magazine was folding after 70 years! I so love that magazine, and am so sad to see it go. At least its sister publication, Bon Appetit, will still be around.
I know it’s already October, and [...]

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Care for a giant chocolate chip cookie that’s flat and crispy on the edges, but soft, chewy and extremely chocolatey on the inside? I’d say go to Jacques Torres’ Chocolate shop in Brooklyn, but I won’t because, yay—you can make them yourself!

Until now, there were only two chocolate chip cookie recipes I’d ever made in [...]

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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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