July 2011

Stone Fruit and Berry Crumble

July 29, 2011
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Is this a crumble or crisp? Ha I’m still not entirely sure myself what I have made, and the definitions do not seem to be mutually exclusive.  We had an abundance of beautiful Summer fruit in the house (and by house I mean tiny two-room apartment, but for some reason it’s a habit of mine [...]

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Shades of Gray

July 25, 2011
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Are you someone who sees the world in black and white, where choices are either yes or no, right or wrong, here or there?  There was a time that I liked to think I was, that if just looked at with the right perspective, the world could be simplified and ordered, categorized into neat little [...]

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Buttered Apricots and Goat Cheese

July 19, 2011
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Fruit deserves to have a place outside of dessert.    Dessert is often shunned for fear of ingesting too many sugar-filled calories and myriad other reasons, and sadly fruit often also becomes under appreciated, associated only with a guilty, and even naughty indulgence – how often do we think of certain fruits only with pies, [...]

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Summer Ginger Apricot Wine Coolers

July 14, 2011
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I never knew what all the hype was about fresh apricots until I moved to Switzerland. My grandmother used to talk about apricots that she would eat when she was growing up in California, and I never quite understood her fascination with them because well, New England (where I grew up) just isn’t known for [...]

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Amateur’s Food Photography XI – Building an image

July 10, 2011
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Over the past month or so I’ve learned an important lesson that I want to share with you all, which is about experimenting and building an image. The photo above started out very differently, and I’m not sure I would have arrived to an image that I was happy with if I wasn’t willing to [...]

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GF Ratio Rally Makes Pasta – Tagliatelle with Smoked Salmon

July 6, 2011
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Welcome to another gluten free ratio rally event!! This month I had the wonderful opportunity to host, and being the non-baker that I am, chose another culinary creation near and dear to my heart, pasta.  Pasta was one of the first things I learned how to cook from scratch, ever.  While in grad school (yes, [...]

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