Category: Delectables
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Everyday Chocolate Cake
What’s an everyday chocolate cake? I’ll tell you. It’s the sort of cake you reach for when there’s snow outside, when the work’s piling up and the night is too dark. It’s the sort of cake that meshes with the mundane, lying low in its simplicity and making up for it in taste. It’s the…
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Parmesan Oven Fries with Garlic & Truffle Aioli
*Last year, we opened 2014 with buttermilk biscuits. This year, we begin with french fries! Recognize a pattern? Yep, January’s a month that’s just begging for comfort food (despite your best resolutions) so get ready for classic, delicious recipes all month long! French fries are one of the (many) things that I can’t really be…
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Classic, Crispy Potato Latkes
Happy Chanukah everyone! Today, I’m sharing a recipe for classic potato latkes. These are the latkes my mom made when I was growing up and they’re the latkes I make for Chanukah today. When I was little, we’d sit at the kitchen table peeling pounds of potatoes while singing Chanukah songs together. Today, I’ll sometimes…
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Salted Caramel Doughnuts
*In anticipation of Chanukah, (which starts on December 16th and lasts ’till the 24th!) I’ll be posting festive and holiday-worthy recipes all month long, starting with this recipe for doughnuts. Doughnuts! Is everyone else as obsessed with doughnuts as I am? And no, I’m not talking cake donuts (which are a doughnut’s seemingly virtuous yet incomparable counterpart). I…
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Spiced S’more Tart
In the summer, we made s’mores. We were inventive- if there was no blazing campfire around, we’d use the flames from the stove. Another time, me and a friend made peanut butter s’more cookies late at night and ate them hot, while we sat outside in the warm night air. While we were reminiscing about…
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Classic Chocolate Babka
There’s nothing (seriously, nothing) like a good chocolate babka. With a soft, brioche-like dough, cinnamon-spiced chocolate filling and beautiful, twisted shape, babka is basically the epitome of what dessert (or breakfast-shh, don’t tell) should be. That’s not to say I make it all the time; it takes a good four hours. But other than that,…
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Purple Plum Cake
It seems like lately I can’t get enough of fruit filled cakes- first this apple cake, and now this. But the truth is, besides for being delicious, they’re versatile like no other cake is, especially during fall, when you want cozy treats that can double as breakfast and dessert. This plum cake is one of…
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Apple Walnut Cake
Since Rosh Hashana’s tomorrow night I’m sharing a recipe for Apple Walnut Cake, which perfectly suits the holiday. Rosh Hashana is when we celebrate the Jewish New Year and we have the custom of symbolically dipping an apple into honey for a sweet new year. It’s one of the things I look forward to every…
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Spiced Pumpkin Scones
Scones, as you might well know by now, are my favorite breakfast pastry, and with good reason. Stuffed with fruit, crumbly or moist, and frosted or spiced, they can be made to fit any occasion, whether a fancy brunch or a mid-morning treat, While it isn’t really Fall yet, I made these pumpkin scones to…
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