August 2010

The Weekend Dish: 8/28/2010

August 28, 2010 |

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Welcome to a new weekend feature here on Brown Eyed Baker: The Weekend Dish! It’s a little food, a little life, and a relaxing end to the week. So here’s the scoop. You’re busy, right? We’re all super busy and I know sometimes I feel like the hours and days run together during the week. [...]

Monkey Bread

August 27, 2010 |

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One massive, gooey cinnamon roll? Yes, please! I know this is called monkey ‘bread’ but I’m having a hard time deciding if it should be classified as bread or a cake. Or a pastry. Breakfast pastry? Oooh maybe that’s it! However you categorize it, this is all kinds of delicious. Sweetened dough is cut into [...]

Artichoke Spinach Dip

August 26, 2010 |

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Okay, raise your hand if you love dip. Me too. Meeeeee too. I thought that there might be a lot of you out there. Thank goodness I’m not alone. Any and all dips, bring ‘em on! Cheese, taco, guacamole, artichoke, spinach, crab, hummus, and the list goes on and on. If it’s dip, you can [...]

Good Eats in the Outer Banks

August 25, 2010 |

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This past weekend my Chief Culinary Consultant and I escaped to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a relaxing long weekend. Nothing makes you forget the ins and outs of everyday work life quite like sinking your toes into the sand, closing your eyes and listening to the waves crash onto the shore. We [...]

Lemon Bars

August 24, 2010 |

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Is there anyone else out there who is a lemon convert? Lemon anything used to madden me. I just couldn’t make myself like anything that had that distinctive, puckering flavor in it. Maybe the things I tried were too tart or lacked something else, but until the last couple of years, I was never a [...]

Toasted Almond and Candied Cherry Ice Cream

August 20, 2010 |

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Well, I finally polished off the Fresh Strawberry and Chocolate Fudge Swirl Peanut Butter ice creams, making lots of room in the freezer for a new flavor. A couple of weeks ago I was thumbing through The Perfect Scoop while sitting with my grandma and she asked what types of ice cream recipes were in [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars

August 19, 2010 |

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I think I’ve made my love for cheesecake abundantly clear by now, but just in case you’re new around these parts, let me climb up onto the roof once more… I.Love.Cheesecake. It’s been my favorite dessert ever since I can remember. I make myself cheesecakes as my birthday cake each year. For awhile I was [...]

Chewy, Chunky Blondies

August 18, 2010 |

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Ahh blondies. They may represent the one instance in life when blondes get overlooked for a brunette. Brownies are by far the more popular of the two bar cookies, but blondies have made quite a name for themselves recently, and with all sorts of varieties cropping up, they allow for infinite creative experiments. I recently [...]

Salted Caramel Brownies

August 16, 2010 |

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I first fell in love with salted caramel back on a chilly January day this past winter. It was a Friday. The night before, my Chief Culinary Consultant and I went to a Pens/Caps game (we won’t discuss the result), and he was in town and off the next day. So we did what we [...]