I’m back, but only for a minute. Round here, we like to make vacations last as long as possible…so we stopped home for a brief minute before leaving again as soon as I finish this sentence. Kidding, but not really…I’ll be back on the road again the minute the last sip of this morning’s coffee […]
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I just wanted to show you that, because I think it’s funny. And cute. Sitting at a restaurant last weekend, we had little Isla in her car seat next to us, quietly sleeping for the first ten minutes after we arrived. We then realized why she was so quiet…oh Hello Kitty, what will you think
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Ice cream. Ever the temperamental beast. In the recent past, I’ve made ice cream without a machine and somewhat regretted the results. Although a mighty tasty concoction I could make, the consistency was never quite….well, right. After searching for months to find a suitable (read: affordable) machine, I was dissapointed to not have found anything
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Carrot Cake. What makes it such a quintessentially important dessert in the lives of North Americans? When looking into the history and importance, one can find that it apparently started to become extremely popular in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a fad “health” food. Carrots in a cake, apparently, make it healthy. Of
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So the name of this blog is Guilty Kitchen, but lately I haven’t felt too guilty about the loveliness being posted for your enjoyment. I’ve felt pride, and I’ve felt remorse (because there’s no leftovers), but I haven’t felt guilt for a while. Maybe it’s because as I see less and less of my toes,
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Um….what? Vegan Brownies? On Guilty Kitchen? What kind of guilty, purely indulgent treat is this? Good questions. I’m not usually one for giving up dairy or eggs or meat, although I have done my fair share of vegetarianism/veganism, when I was a lowly single living with my grilfriends. Not only was it a great way
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The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe. Uh oh. Seriously? Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………………….. Yup, that was my exact reaction when I saw this month’s challenge was going to be French Macarons. Now, I
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When company’s coming over for dinner, it’s nice to be able to offer something warm and comforting for the ever important, after dinner indulgence. Which is why I baked this caramel & apple cream cheese tart last weekend when some family was coming for a visit. We don’t often get visitors, what with living 35
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Today, I’m taking you back to your childhood. No matter who you are, where you grew up or what kind of Mother (or Father) you have, you surely came home to the smell of freshly baked cookies at one point in your life. Whether they were chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, snickerdoodles or sugar
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Nothing brings back memories of childhood quite like a warm apple pie……………..oh wait, your mom was like mine and didn’t bake anything unless it was Christmas, and even then dessert was a no bake Better Than Sex Cake? Oh. Yeah…well okay, that’s a recipe for another time. Nothing brings back memories of the return of
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