Strawberry Almond Cream Tart Recipe

posted by Jaden This Strawberry Almond Cream Tart recipe is from Cooking Light Cookbook: Cooking Through the Seasons. The graham cracker crust is perfect with the light cream-cheese filling. Fresh strawberries and slivered almonds complete this summery dessert. Strawberry-Almond Cream Tarts This recipe is re-printed with permission from Cooking Light …

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Jim Lahey’s No Knead Baguette Recipe (Stecca)

posted by Jaden This no-knead baguette recipe is simple. There’s no kneading, and the technique requires just stretching the dough into big breadsticks “stecca.” This recipe is from Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery in NYC. Ingredients for No Knead Baugette, you’ll need: Bread flour Yeast Olives, tomato, whole garlic …

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layered yogurt flatbreads

For many years I’ve been fascinated by variations on yeast-free yogurt flatbread recipes (in some versions of parathas, yeast-free naans, and roti canai) that follow a loose formula of a cup of yogurt, a couple cups of flour, some salt, fat, and water. Sometimes there’s baking powder, sometimes there’s not. …

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Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe

posted by Jaden In this Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe, you’ll learn why roasting tomatoes produces the best tasting sauce that you can enjoy tonight, can or freeze for later. Why you’ll love this Simple Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe: You’ll love this recipe if you don’t care for too-sour, too-tangy …

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how i stock the smitten kitchen

It’s true: I’ve dragged my feet over writing a guide to what I keep in my “pantry” (I don’t have a pantry) and fridge for 14 years now. I have my reasons, primarily that I’m not sure I know what your kitchen needs. I mean, shouldn’t you stock the stuff …

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roast chicken with schmaltzy cabbage

I didn’t know I needed a new roast chicken in my life when Helen Rosner, the New Yorker’s roving food correspondent and all-around fascinating person, posted on her Instagram a few weekends ago that she didn’t have her usual vegetables to put under her roast chicken so she was using …

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crispy crumbled potatoes

My love of french fries is vast and well–documented — preferably in a golden, crisp and glittering-with-fine-salt heap with some aioli, an artichoke or oysters and ice-cold, very dry champagne, outside at a bustling cafe in a life that seems a bit distant right now — so I hope you …

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Easter Recipe Roundup

posted by Jaden This Easter Recipe Roundup will satisfy all of your Easter brunch and dinner cravings! I’ve rounded up some of my favorite recipes for this Easter in one post! Call them Easter recipes, call them Spring recipes. Whatever you want to call them, you’ll be sure to please …

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The Best Ever Chicken Recipes

posted by Betty Chicken is a staple protein in most houses, but it doesn’t have to be boring! Check out the best chicken recipes from Steamy Kitchen, from soups, to salads and appetizers to mains. We always have chicken in our fridge and freezer. It’s such a versatile ingredient that …

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ultimate banana bread

I know, I know, you don’t need to tell me that there are already four banana bread recipes on this site, plus four additional banana cakes, and that’s probably enough, right? Genuinely, I believed I was done too, that the Banana Baked Goods course at SK University* had been completed. …

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