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Posts tagged ‘baking’

Chocolate coconut muffins with coconut flour

I baked something without gluten.

Yes. Even though gluten and I have a pretty close, dependent relationship (in which I depend highly on it to make tasty things), I did it. And I’ll do it again, readily.

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Quest-worthy chewy chocolate brownies

I’ve been on a valiant quest – full of risks and moments of false hope and failures and times of despair.

And success.

Brownies

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Buttermilk anything cake

Sometimes I go a bit overboard with fruit. Summer comes and suddenly there are peaches and apricots and cherries and everything all over the place, and I just can’t help myself. I buy boatloads, and then we end up needing to eat eight pieces a day just to make it through.

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Citrus galette with blood oranges, kumquats, and mint

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A few months back, I fell in love with this. To be honest I was much more excited by the dramatic look of it than what it actually was, but I knew I had to have it on my table.  Flaky, buttery crust filled with dramatic, deep red blood orange slices. Fantastic.

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Whole wheat buttermilk lemon muffins

One of my favorite times to bake is a lazy weekend morning – a morning with no reservations at spin class or a goal for miles to run, with no 10 a.m. obligations to be at work or someone’s house, or too many errands to run. I love spending time in the kitchen with natural light (my camera likes that too), baking in pajamas and with no thoughts about even coming near a hair brush. NPR or maybe some new Fleet Foxes on the speakers, mug of latte at hand.  (See entry Weekend Mornings, in “Utopian visions of what Bowen’s life should be like” Vol. II.)

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