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Happy Spring Break to all my fellow students out there!  My Morning Chocolate will be on hiatus for the rest of the week.  But I didn’t want to leave you hanging.  So, dear readers, here is the Barefoot Contessa’s chocolate cake recipe.
The cake is fudgy and moist, and the icing is buttery with a [...]

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A few months ago, I bought some chickpea flour, mistakenly thinking it was the type of flour I needed to make Indian breads (it’s actually chapati flour that is used to make them).  So what do you do with chickpea flour?  The back of the bag had a recipe for hummus, but I still [...]

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When I went to the store yesterday, I looked carefully through the chocolate section to find the most interesting bar.  The winner at my local store was Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Goji Berry, Pecans & Maca.  Clearly, this bar won because of the maca; I had no idea what maca might taste like and [...]

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Lately, I gotten tired of making drop cookies.  Not of eating them – that’s the best part! – but of making them.  It’s the same old cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, then mix in the dry ingredients recipe, and it can get pretty dull if you make them for once a week [...]

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I am now a homemade bread convert.
Now when I say that, I don’t mean homemade bread made in the bread maker (though I do still love my bread maker).  I mean the bread that is really made by hand, that takes nearly a full day to rise, and that bakes in the oven until the [...]

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Time for Super Bowl Sunday! Those of us in the Northeast will likely be snowed in, watching the game with our spouses or kids or roommates. But for those of you who aren’t expecting a storm, or who are hosting a Super Bowl party anyway, I’ve put together a list of recipe ideas inspired by [...]

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My stove makes me curse and stomp and slam things around the kitchen every time I want to use the two back burners.  That’s because it slants forward, pushing all of the ingredients to the front third of my frying pans.
But I wanted to make tempura last weekend.  I planned to have [...]

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If you watch Top Chef, you may have heard Leah or Michael explain their dishes by saying they made a little dashi, as nonchalantly as if they had made a peanut butter sandwich.  Was dashi a type of fish?  The name of a dish?  A flavoring?  I’ll admit it; I didn’t know.
So I turned to my Food [...]

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I went to New York this weekend so I fully intended to find a New York food experience to blog about for today. But even though the city is overcrowded with restaurants and food stores, I couldn’t stop thinking about making a sweet and salty breakfast sandwich, kind of like the McDonald’s McGriddle pancake sandwich [...]

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Good morning to the coffee addicts out there! Wouldn’t it be nice to get more from your bag of coffee, or to learn how to make a better cup of coffee that suits your personality?

Last night, I went to the Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere Coffee! event at Baltimore’s Village Learning Place (a space loaded with [...]

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