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Cup4Cup Devil’s Food Cake

March 21, 2012
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The Great Gluten-Free Flour Test continues! In case you weren’t here yesterday (where were you? I was looking everywhere), here’s the 411. In a nutshell? 4 all-purpose gluten-free flour blends (Better Batter, C4C, Jules, Tom Sawyer), 4 recipe categories (cake, pastry, yeast bread, cookies), 10 ratings categories.* I’ll do the math. Later. When you’re not [...]

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Look What I Found! Part 2

January 20, 2012
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Do me a favor & explain to my husband that I really really need this Polder Retro Bread Bin? Call it retro, and I’m in. The only thing I like more than retro is … … rustic. This Farmer’s Egg Crate from Anthropologie makes me feel positively pastoral. Like I might go milk a cow [...]

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Look What I Found! Part 1

January 11, 2012
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I really like these cutting boards in my kitchen. They come in lots of sizes, are very durable, don’t trap stinky smelly stuff, sell for a song — and they go in the dishwasher. Amazon is out of, like, all of them. But you can still find plenty here, on the Epicurean site. I like [...]

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Shameless Pita Bares All

August 12, 2011
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Put your hands in your lap, you feet flat on the floor. You’re feeling very relaxed. Begin to count back from 100. You’re getting sleeeeepy…Pita is easy. Pita is naked. And unapologetic. (but not into graffiti. I was the one who defaced the Lego Career Girl). Pita is … eating Middle Eastern street food today. [...]

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Deeply Shallow Thoughts

May 21, 2011
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                              Did I really say that? Some Deeply Shallow Thoughts for this Saturday. Talk about a penny for your thoughts. 1.  It matters to me if I get a good parking spot. A lot. 2.  Is it still dressing in drag [...]

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Shoestring Cookbook Giveaway

May 13, 2011
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UPDATE: WE HAVE A WINNER! Number 148, Paula Decaria, will receive a copy of Gluten-Free on a Shoestring {to be sent directly by my publisher, Perseus Books}, and a 20 ounce box of Better Batter All-purpose gluten-free flour {to be sent directly by me}. I will e-mail you, Paula! If I don’t hear back from [...]

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The Promise of Pita

April 10, 2011

Before we get to all the excitation of this wildly successful GF pita recipe, I’d like to start today’s chat with a few words of hard-earned wisdom: If (theoretically) some of your pitas don’t come out of the oven fully pocketed, and you have to coax them open with a knife, do yourself a favor [...]

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Time to make the doughnuts

April 5, 2011

I have the most darlin’ little deep fryer, and it works a treat. Here’s my mini deep fryer. But suit yourself. No hard feelings. In case you are as naive as I was (which I’m sure you’re not – c’mon), deep frying at the precise right temperature seals up the outside of foods right quick, [...]

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