Bakery

Key Lime Cheesecake Bars

We Floridians don’t get serious about many things; witness our casual approach to the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. However, we and our sunstruck politicians can be roused by the important matter of key lime pie. In 2006, for example, after several months of vigorous debate in the Florida State Senate [...]

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Reuben “Sandwich” Bites

Grilled Reubens are my family’s idea of sandwich comfort food heaven, and it’s easy to see why. The origin of this superb sandwich is hotly contested, with some attributing it’s development to Omaha restauranteur Reuben Kulakofsky during the 1920s and others giving the nod to New York delicatessen owner Arnold [...]

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Feta Dill Bread Braid

Garlic bread, a twice baked bread typically made with store-bought baguettes, is an ever popular side dish at mealtime, but then so too is home baked bread, straight from the oven. As both a committed bread baker and garlic bread devotee, I often find myself puzzling out how to incorporate [...]

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Blueberry Cheese Danish Cake

The blueberry season has just arrived where I live, and I’ve been happily working my way through my list of favorite uses for this wonderfully flavorful, vitamin-rich native American fruit. I’ve been eating fresh blueberries with cereal for breakfast, having them in liquid form as smoothies for lunch, and serving [...]

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Blue Cheese Straws with Walnuts

Cheese straws are a ubiquitous Southern appetizer that somehow escaped my attention until my first year at university, when they were introduced to me by my then roommate, a dear upper-crust girl from Georgia. She and I actually had little in common. But we were as one in our enthusiasm [...]

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Strawberry Chocolate Shortcakes

Strawberry shortcake is a wonderfully simple, old fashioned dessert that never seems to go out of style. And I’ve been enjoying its charms over the past several months, since I live in Florida, where the long Winter-Spring strawberry season is still underway. My typical approach to strawberry shortcake is to [...]

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Ginger Snaps for Adults

Cookies addictions happen to the best of us and show no mercy once we’re hooked. Some of us have “Toll House” cravings at odd hours and maintain a special chocolate chip stash in the pantry to be ready for them. Other poor souls must get their annual fix of Thin [...]

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A Strawberry Pie Valentine

Valentine’s Day, for me, conjures up thoughts of romance and affection, of course, but also of strawberries. The fruit is red hot love red, deliciously sweet, and even heart shaped; what could be more apt? But I also have another, more prosaic reason for associating this fruit with our annual [...]

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Very Tangerine (or Orange) Poppy Seed Cake

Recipes sometimes stem from not having enough of a good thing; money is often the missing ingredient that can spur creativity in the kitchen. At other times, we find ourselves with too much of a particular ingredient and must look for new ways to use it. This cake recipe falls [...]

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Apple Butter Sticky Buns

Eating in moderation, using local and organic ingredients wherever possible, is a motto I generally try to adhere to. However, I must admit that I consider the December holiday season to be a special time-out period. It seems almost obligatory to over-indulge, let the extra calories fall where they may, [...]

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