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Christmas Lights Bites — Half Cookie, Half Candy, Making Spirits Bright!

December 12, 2010

These 3-ingredient, 5-minute Christmas treats are half cookie, half candy, and all good! Sweet and salty, creamy and crispy, they are bright spots on the holiday cookie tray.

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Boursin Mushrooms from Jean-Michel Cousteau

December 5, 2010

Ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques!) shares his recipe for Boursin Mushrooms — a fantastic vegetarian appetizer or Meatless Monday dinner. He serves these to his crew on expeditions, and it is his signature dish. (Of course, it naturally includes sea salt!)

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Eggnog French Toast — ‘Tis the Season!

November 27, 2010

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Shockinglydelicious Thanksgiving 2010 Menu

November 26, 2010

We kept it simple this year because we were cooking at my house and bringing it to my mother’s house 1 1/2 hours away. Last week, as I contemplated what might be easy to cook and transport, I recalled a Thanksgiving 5 years ago when my son was in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. […]

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Let Us Give Thanks (a Poem for Thanksgiving)

November 23, 2010

Let Us Give Thanks By Max Coots Let us give thanks for a bounty of people: For children who are our second planting, and, though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember where their roots are. Let us give thanks: For […]

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Wordless Wednesday: It’s for dinner, not for snack!

November 17, 2010

With hungry kids in the house, you had best mark your territory in no uncertain terms, or 6 o’clock will roll around and you’ll have no dinner!

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Dorothy’s Southwest Stuffing — Holiday Recipe Contest Winner

November 13, 2010

Thanksgiving is about the stuffing, and this Southwest version chock full of chiles, cumin, currants, pecans, raisins, red bell pepper and corn won 1st place in the Malibu Times Magazine 2010 Holiday Recipe Contest! It will be a winner at your feast, too.

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Wordless Wednesday: One Tough Cookie!

November 10, 2010

Really, the Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats were not THAT hard to stir!

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Kiwi Lemon Mousse

November 6, 2010

From “Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients,” by Abby Dodge (Taunton Press; $17.95)

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Almost Wordless Wednesday: Blue Ribbon Pumpkin Pie!

November 3, 2010

This baby is a three-time blue ribbon winner in the Pacific Palisades Pie Contest (2010, 2008, 2006), bringing my pie ribbons to a total of 20!

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Mediterranean Deviled Eggs — Perfect Appetizer

October 31, 2010

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Green Tomato Chutney (When Mother Nature Won’t Cooperate)

October 23, 2010

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Witches’ Digits — Disgusting but Delicious Halloween Cookies to Gross-Out Your Guests

October 19, 2010

Scary, disgusting but delicious Witches’ Digit Halloween Cookies will have your party guests howling! Bloody finger stumps for dessert, anyone?

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Shockinglydelicious Saturday Cooking Class: Rustic Chunky Applesauce

October 16, 2010

Rustic Chunky Applesauce offers a huge flavor payoff for a small amount of effort. The secret ingredient of boiled cider makes all the difference, as do quality apples. It really is worth making your own applesauce!

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Sweet Basil Deviled Eggs

October 10, 2010

Deliciously herbal, Sweet Basil Deviled Eggs make a perfect appetizer or light lunch. The cute factor counts, too!

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Nutella Fudge Brownies from ‘Desserts 4 Today’!

October 4, 2010

From “Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients,” by Abby Dodge (Taunton Press; $17.95)

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Meet Abby Dodge – a Baker’s Dozen Questions for Goddess of the Oven

October 2, 2010

Bakers probably know Abby Dodge, even if they think they don’t. A Connecticut-born, Paris-trained pastry chef with a practical, American approach, Abby is the author of seven cookbooks, including “Desserts 4 Today,” hot off the presses last month, and the highly lauded “The Weekend Baker.” She teaches, writes for Bon Appetit and Fine Cooking magazines, […]

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