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Four More Years!

Congratulations to President Obama! It was a nail-biter, but he pulled it off. Now he has four more years to make his policies work—if Congress will let him. Plus, we'll have four more years of...

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Best-Ever Brownies

Naming your recipe "Best-Ever" anything invites controversy. Claiming to have created the "best-ever" brownie? Well, that's downright ballsy. It's right up there with parking your car (with an Obama...

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Gingerbread Baby Cakes

Actually, cupcakes. I didn't have baby cake pans (4 inches). It didn't matter. These cakes were tasty anyway. I think of them as gingerbread for grownups. If you'd like to try the recipe, you can go...

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Goodbye, Christmas. Hello, Seed Catalogs!

I hope everybody had a happy holiday! We stayed at home this year, which was very relaxing. It snowed on Christmas Eve and Kevin, #1 Son and I had a snowball fight in the morning. Kevin bought me some...

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Pizza with Onion Confit

Happy New Year, Bakers! I am so glad we're cooking something savory this week. I am all sugared out from the holidays. (Except for some peanut butter fudge that I made last week. I can't stop eating...

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Tuesdays With Dorie—French Apple Tart

Let's say you just drove 355 miles from North Carolina to Maryland. What would you like to do next? Sleep? Veg out in front of the TV? No! You want to bake a French Apple Tart! Because it's Tuesday....

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Tuesdays With Dorie—Focaccia

Congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens! I live in Maryland, why didn't I have today off work? Did you know there's actually a petition at the White House website to make the day after the Super Bowl a...

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Tuesdays with Dorie — Boca Negra

Hello, everyone. I'm so happy to be hosting this month. I'm even happier that this week's recipe features DARK CHOCOLATE (and lots of it!) Although, this slender cake looks sophisticated, the recipe...

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Croissants

Or, as we called them at my house, Never-Ending Croissants. If instant gratification is your thing, then croissants are not for you. These were not difficult to make, but they took a loooooong time....

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Mocha Chocolate Chips

Homemade chocolate chip cookies are like sex—even when they're not amazing, they're still pretty great. So even though this wasn't my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, I found myself polishing off...

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Tuesdays With Dorie—Rustic Potato Loaves

Hi, everybody. Spring is here! Our local baseball team, the Frederick Keys, had an "open stadium" called Keysfest on Saturday. We went out for the free hot dogs, easter egg hunt and general merriment....

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TWD — Madeleines

Good morning! How about a treat with your morning coffee? How about a dozen of them? This week's recipe is for Madeleines. If you want to bake along, you can find the entire text of the recipe at...

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Tuesdays With Dorie—Fresh Rhurbarb Upside Down Baby Cakes

Okay, actually Fresh Pineapple Upside Down Baby Cakes. I almost didn't make these, but we had pineapple left over from our Cinco de Mayo party. I whipped them up tonight after my son went to bed. These...

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Tuesdays With Dorie—Savarin

Don't let the pretty photo fool you. Today was not my day. A big project at work had one incorrect link, forcing us to reprint Module 10. (and it was my fault.) t's two weeks before convention and...

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Mid-June in the Garden or Why Am I Picking Peas on Father’s Day?

My good friend Kim mentioned to me that there has been very little actual gardening in my "gardening blog". Even though I'm not doing a lot of writing, I am doing a lot of growing. Here's a progress...

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Tuesdays With Dorie — Tomato & Cheese Galette

Sometimes it pays to watch the show. Our book, Baking with Julia, is based on the PBS series of the same name. A lot (if not all) of the original videos are available at pbs.org or YouTube. I don't...

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Tuesdays with Dorie—Baked Yogurt Tart

Hi everyone! It's been a busy week. I don't have to write a more thorough post later, but here's the short version. I used blueberries, since I had a lot in the fridge. I liked the tart, though I...

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Tuesdays With Dorie—Summer Vegetable Tart

Three things happened within 24 hours: Kevin, #1 son, and I got back from a 7-day vacation (Sunday afternoon), I made this tart shell (Monday morning) and our air conditioning stopped working (Monday...

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TWD — Eastern Mediterranean Pizza

Hi all! I made these for dinner last week. They were easy and delicious. I used ground beef instead of lamb. We don't eat a lot of lamb and I didn't want to make a grocery store run for a 1/4 lb. of...

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TWD—Johnny Cake Cobbler AND Raspberry-Fig Crostata

Yes. I made both. I'm glad I did. One was a big pain in the butt, but a big success. One was easy, but disappointing. Which was which? Read on and find out. But first, the Johnny Cake Cobbler video is...

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