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I have had this Bon Appetit ginger cake recipe tucked in my recipe inspiration folder for almost two years. Every time I came across it, I grew very excited and determined to finally make it. And then, clutching the magazine tear-out on my way to the kitchen, I would realize that I don’t have one…
When I was a kid, my mom baked all the time. There were layered cakes, crispy cookies, sweet breads to accompany our tea, and so much more. But when I watched her bake, I never once saw her measure an ingredient; we didn’t even own measuring cups or a scale. She would just scoop ingredients…
Remember this post where I told you about the incredible Brown Betty Cookbook? Well, when I was looking to bake something in celebration of Women’s Day (I’m Ukrainian and this day is not taken lightly in Eastern European cultures), I returned to its pages in search of another great recipe. I didn’t have to look…
We all have food memories that we may have fabricated, right? They are blurry, gray, distant and vague; they are memories of us eating something not necessarily good or bad, but an imprint of them has remained in the brain nonetheless. Years down the line we try to look back to those memories and there…
This guest post was written by Ruthie of the tasty tRuth, a fellow foodie I met thanks to the NYC Food Bloggers. Ruthie hails from the Midwest but has recently relocated to the Big Apple to pursue her goal of becoming a food writer. She is passionate about natural, sustainable food, and looooves cheese. Her…
A few weeks ago, the editor of this scrumptious cookbook hosted a giveaway on his blog and yours truly won! The Brown Betty Cookbook (John Wiley & Sons, 2012) is a collection of dessert recipes from the Brown Betty Dessert Boutique in Philadelphia. The boutique was founded by mother-daughter team, Linda Hinton Brown and Norrinda Brown…
