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Craving: Sour Cream Raisin Bars

Please tell us that you've heard of these bar cookies? We started craving them over the weekend, but when we hopped online to find a recipe, we found next to nothing! How can it be that more people ...

National Food Roundup: Yellow Beet Sandwich with Avocado, Grapefruit and Radish Sprouts
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 04.22.09

We've got a serious case of sandwich envy in this week's roundup. Plus, using leftover pickle juice in a Scarlett Quinoa Salad and desserts for right now. ...

Recipe Review: Salt-Kissed Buttermilk Cake from 101 Cookbooks

Until it showed up in the bulk bins at our local co-op, we had no idea that whole-wheat pastry flour even existed! When we asked what recipes we should try first, one of the recommendations was the sa...

Spring Dessert: Rhubart Tart with Orange Glaze

Take a look at this gorgeous tart, one more recipe from Gourmet's April 2009 issue. This tart is very, very easy. In fact, it makes use of a frozen ingredient you may unearth in your freezer during th...

Help! Why Didn't Pomegranates Tint This Cheesecake?

Sometimes the most learning happens when we admit we don't know as much as we thought we did. Recently we made a cheesecake and became perplexed when we added in fresh pomegranate juice in attempt to...

Look! Hot Toddy Pudding Cake at Gourmet

Hey, look at this! We can't imagine how good this must be — especially since it combines two of our very favorite things. ...

Look! Passover Desserts from Gourmet

We haven't written too much about Passover foods yet, and there are still a couple of weeks to go (it starts April 9th). But this slideshow of desserts is a good one to get your planning started. How ...

Five Desserts to Cook in a Skillet

We were so inspired by Everyday Food this month. They had a spread of desserts to cook in a skillet, which is an old-fashioned and very homey way of fixing and serving dessert. We mostly think of skil...

Good Question: What Dessert Goes with Mexican Food?

This is a dilemma we've faced before, and it isn't helped by the blah desserts we usually find on the menus of Mexican restaurants. Here's a question from Renee: I'm supposed to take dessert to a ...

Cooking by Imagination... Or, How I Turned An Appetizer Into Dessert

The recipe seemed to just appear in my head one evening a few months ago. I was visiting some friends and we were hanging around in the kitchen, doing what we love most: a little chopping here, a l...

Tip for Eating Less: Make Mini Desserts

As Faith posted earlier today, we're going to be offering lots of ideas for clean, healthy eating in the weeks ahead. That means different things to different people, of course; maybe you want to add ...

Hot or Not? Bacon in Desserts

We first heard the rumblings of the bacon-as-dessert movement when Vosges introduced Mo's Bacon Chocolate Bar, but the rumbling is now a roar. Bacon is weaving its savory path through cookies, ice cre...

Summer Dessert: Just Fruit

Last night we were reminded of the pure, sweet pleasure of ending a meal simply: just with fruit. ...

No-Bake Desserts: Two Recipes from Domino

We're contemplating a no-bake dessert this weekend, which is not difficult considering how much gorgeous fruit is available right now. Here are two recipes from Domino that take advantage of summer fr...

Book Review: The Taste of Sweet

The current zeitgeist of popular food non-fiction books leans more towards the puritan than the hedonistic. Michael Pollan's catchy phrase "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," doesn't also instruc...

Spring Dessert Trend: Pudding Cakes

Ever since we made Sara Kate's lemon pudding cakes a few weeks ago, it seems as if we are seeing pudding cakes everywhere! Since then we've blogged a recipe for Lemon Spongettes and Bill Granger's cho...

Recipe: Prize-Winning Peanut Butter Panna Cotta with Caramel Mousse

We're a bit crazy about peanut butter, and try to sneak it into as many desserts as possible. (In fact right now, we've baking another batch of the hamantaschen cookies we showed you yesterday, filled...

Absinthe Cupcakes at Coconut & Lime

Coconut and Lime developed a delicious-looking absinthe cupcake, topped with green fairy icing and a sugar cube. We think the fresh anise taste and the green pastel color is just right for Spring and...

Slow Cook Magic: Make Orange Soufflé in a Crock-Pot

We have always been curious about dessert in the slow cooker. We use our Crock-Pot all the time, but mostly for braises, ...

Last Minute Desserts for Valentine's Day

Want to whip up a little home-cooked comfort for you and your sweetie tonight? Or maybe for a few friends, or a quiet, blessedly peaceful night in alone? Here are a few recent favorite dessert recip...

Recipe: Meyer Lemon and Walnut Cake with Honey Syrup

Fruitcake haters may be converted by this cake, and those of us who like well-made bricks of the holiday treat will love this. It has that same density of flavor, packed into tiny bites full of lemo...

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