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Madeira Chicken with Mushrooms
Our Valentine's Days have always been fraught with disaster. The first one was great, but after that, it was like a curse descended onto our V-Day plans. One year, our reservations got lost. Another...
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Mixed-Berry Muffins and a Blog-a-birthday
Have you ever noticed that time has a sneaky way of moving forward? Like one day, it's Thanksgiving, and the next day, you wake up and it's the middle of February and your blog has turned two years...
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Challah
What did I do this Saturday, you might ask? I took two naps and I baked the softest, sweetest, loveliest pull-apart challah I could have ever hoped for. As you can tell, I'm still a complete disaster...
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Spinach Artichoke Dip
One day, I went looking for a simple spinach artichoke dip recipe, and to my complete amazement, I didn't find one. You'd think that something so ubiquitous would be everywhere, and yet, all the...
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Chocolate Pear Cake
I know you were waiting for me to bring you Hamantashen... and I wanted to, I really did. I even bought all the ingredients for the cookies and then... I made chocolate pear cake instead. I don't know...
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Strawberries!
I didn't make anything new for you today. I know that all you nice people will forgive me. It's been an interesting month to say the least, what with our never-ending roof leak, caved in ceiling, a...
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Strawberry Cream Cake, version 2
Let me tell it to you straight. I wasn't going to show you this cake because I didn't think the pictures turned out well. Stupid reason, right? For a whole month, my vanity held me back, but then I...
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Cornbread
I have a small confession to make. *Deep breath* I don't really like traditional Texan cornbread. You know, the kind that's made entirely with cornmeal and has like one teaspoon of sugar, if that? The...
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Nutty, Chocolaty, Swirly Sour Cream Bundt Cake
There is a reason I come back to Dorie Greenspan's "Baking" again and again. It's not only because the recipes are simple, easy to understand, charming and delicious. On a basic level, I love this...
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Baked Frittata
I feel guilty that I haven't told you about this frittata yet, not just because I make it all the time, but because it's so easy, so delicious and so infinitely adaptable, that everyone should have...
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The Perfect Breakfast Muffin
For some time now, I've been on a quest to discover the perfect breakfast muffin. Though I love the rich, buttery taste of a good cafe muffin as much as the next girl, and much more so with a good...
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Quick Chocolate Buttercream
I totally had birthday cake for breakfast this morning. You see, when you are the birthday girl, you are practically forced into doing that by the last errant slice of birthday cake that your mom...
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Small Batch Peach Jam
Sometimes, it only takes half an hour for magic to happen in the kitchen. It took only half an hour for these gorgeous, but sadly hum-drum tasting peaches to be transformed into the multi-layered,...
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Tomato Goat Cheese Tarts in an Herb Parmesan Crust
I have to give myself a budget at the farmer's market because I tend to go a little crazy there in the summer. It's all the smells, you see, and the colors that make me lose my head - the tiny red...
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Everyday Bread
There is an undeniable mystique around bread baking. So many unfamiliar terms, so many techniques, starters, proportions, secrets that have been passed down through generations. It's intimidating, to...
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One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
I think some of the best gifts I've ever gotten were food. Cocoa powder from Belgium, boxes of golden raisins, freshly baked bread. I love it all. And it's not because I consider myself a "foodie" or a...
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The Sweetest Thing I've Ever Baked
You may have noticed how quiet it's been around these parts, and here is the small but very sweet reason. Lily arrived on Wednesday, September 8th at 12:24 pm, wide-eyed and screaming to announce her...
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Rookie Mistake
Dear Diary,Grandma incautiously left me without a diaper for 10 seconds yesterday. HAHAHA! Rookie mistake, Grandma!Guess what I did... ;)Love,Lily
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In the pink
As you can tell, I am a complete sucker for pink, bows and frills. I think she is too. :)
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Happy Holidays!
We hope your holidays are warm, bright and filled with joy and happiness!Love,Irene, Arkady & Lily.
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5 months and a promise
Hello, dear readers! Have you given up on me yet? If no, then thank you!My little girl turns 5 months old today. These have been the roughest, busiest and most wonderful five months of my life, but...
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Kahlua Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
So it turns out that babies are kind of needy (who knew?!) and it took this mama a whole five and a half months to get back into the kitchen. I assure you, nothing less than the promise of alcohol and...
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Cream-Filled Vanilla Cupcakes With Strawberry Buttercream
The flu hit our house like a ton of bricks this week and it hasn't been fun. Lily turned into a snot-machine (a cute snot machine, but still!) and all mama and daddy could do was pass each other some...
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Cold Weather Beef Stew
It's really been a while, I know. I didn't mean to leave you guys for so long. But our days here have a different rhythm now, with nursery rhymes, playdates and little shoes, sticky kisses and bedtime...
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