Christmas dinner

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Cookie, cookie, cookie, is good enough for me!

Pine nut cookies, or pignoli cookies as my Italian (say it like an Irish-American, “Eye-talyan” friends might call them, are something I have always wanted to try. Martha Stewart published a recipe that looked do-able, so I gave it a go the other day. The verdict? What a pain in the ass for [...]

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Saturday is cooking day

… alternately titled, In Which Vast Quantities of Sugar and Fat are Consumed. Oh, yeah. Yesterday was a busy day. We had brunch at my SIL’s, and in preparation therefor, I made a crustless bacon & onion quiche for 8. It’s a very low fat recipe– just 10 eggs, 1 cup [...]

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Gluten free peanut butter cookies

I am not a huge peanut butter aficionada, but I do like a peanut butter cookie. I was intrigued by the recipe Shauna had at Gluten Free Girl, and kicked off my holiday baking with her recipe– with a few tweaks, of course. I use Teddie Peanut Butter, since it’s made in the [...]

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Some accomplishments

The BH and I took the T to the mechanic’s, picked up the car with the newly-replaced window, and drove up to the FedEx depot near the BH’s work to pick up a package that ended up being a surprise present from my wonderful assistant. Dropped the BH off at his office to do [...]

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Gluten free roasted squash, caramelized onion, and ricotta tart

Deb at Smitten Kitchen had a recipe for a Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Gallette that looked delicious. Since I can’t resist tinkering, and since I wanted to make a gluten free crust, my end result has a more cracker-y, pizza-like crust, but it’s still a good way to use up my Boston Organics [...]

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Food bloggers unite!

Well, Anali and I met for coffee. So it wasn’t really a rally of food bloggers, or even a very large meeting of Boston-area food bloggers. But what we lacked in quantity, we made up in quality conversation, covering topics from physical therapy, to the intersection of journalism and blogging, to sitemeter (Lisa [...]

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Weekend update

1. Dorie Greenspan continues to succeed– the chocolate ginger cake/bread I made for my brother’s birthday was an enormous success.
2. My ever-reliable camera, an SD100 Elph bought 5 years or more ago, has given up the ghost– we think the sensor’s on the fritz. But, I was starting [...]

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The ugliest cake ever

I made the ugliest birthday cake today for our head paralegal. I baked a 1997 Joy of Cooking sour cream fudge cake, but the bottom layer stuck a little when I tried to get it out of the pan, so I had to glue it together with frosting. The top layer was fine, [...]

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Plum Ricotta Tart

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Plum Ricotta Tart, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Dorie Greenspan’s Sweet Tart Dough, parbaked and filled with a mix of whole fat ricotta, nutmeg, and whole fat yogurt mixed with honey, topped with mirabelle [...]

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