Martha Stewart

Polenta French Toast

May 20, 2010 | 33 Comments | Email | Print
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For me, growing up in an Italian family, polenta was always a savory dish and served exclusively in one of two ways: soft-style with red sauce or soft-style with Italian sausage. Go figure Until last year, that was the extent of my experience with the Italian version of grits, and while delicious, I was happy [...]

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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

May 18, 2010 | 51 Comments | Email | Print
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I don’t know about you, but when I think about thumbprints, I almost always think of them filled with jelly or jam and they usually only show up around the holidays. The thing is, I’m not a huge jam person. I mean, I love my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches just as much as the [...]

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Pecan Sandies

May 3, 2010 | 32 Comments | Email | Print
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Pecan sandies are one of those recipes that seem to flitter off to the back of my mind. So simple, so easy, so rich and flavorful, that it’s a wonder I’m not whipping them up once a week! These cookies have the consistency of a shortbread, albeit a bit softer and sweeter thanks to the [...]

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Rugelach

January 5, 2010 | 30 Comments | Email | Print
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I absolutely adore rugelach and can’t believe that it took me so long to make them myself. Ironically, I made them the same day that I made the Chocolate Babka – it was a Jewish baking extravaganza! The history of rugelach, much like babka, is that they were first brought to America by Eastern European [...]

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Chocolate Babka

January 4, 2010 | 35 Comments | Email | Print
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Rich, rich, rich is the best way to describe this out-of-this-world, decadent bread. This babka was a long time coming, as I had seen it on other food blogs ages ago, and have stared at it in my Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook countless times. So what took me so long to make it? Well, it [...]

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Nut Crescents

December 9, 2009 | 22 Comments | Email | Print
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Also known as Nut Horns. Also very, very similar to the ever-popular Snowballs a.k.a. Mexican Wedding Cookies a.k.a. Russian Tea Cookies. So many different names! These cookies are made of a buttery, shortbread style dough with ground nuts. After they are baked and cooled they are rolled in powdered sugar, giving the cookies a sugary-sweet [...]

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

September 2, 2009 | 38 Comments | Email | Print
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Peanut butter and jelly – we go way, way back. I wouldn’t be shocked if I was told that peanut butter was my first word (er, words). As a toddler I had a peanut butter and jelly sleeping bag that I finally gave up fitting into somewhere around middle school. As a kid, I chose [...]

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World Bread Day: Challah

October 16, 2008 | 21 Comments | Email | Print

Once again the wonderful Zorra has coordinated a celebration of the World Bread Day, asking bloggers from all over the globe to bake, buy, or photograph bread and blog about it today. World Bread Day is an event created by the UIB (International Union of Bakers and Bakers-Confectioners) in an effort to provide an opportunity [...]

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