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Website: Epicurious
This is a great recipe to have on hand for improvising based on what you have on hand.
You definitely need to double the eggs and cream/milk, otherwise you don't have enough batter to cover everything.
I'll admit that I always use a frozen crust, so can't comment on that part of the recipe.
I've made it with the ingredients as written, but also substituted different fillings (mushrooms, tomatoes, pancetta) cheeses based on what I have on hand.
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Website: Epicurious
This is such a treat! Foundue + roast pumpkin is just awesome.
Definitely don't skimp on the cooking time, I undercooked mine, and the pumpkin did not scoop out easily. But I'll be making it again soon.
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Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe
By Joanne Chang, Christie Matheson
Chronicle Books - 2010
These are so good. Very easy for scones, and I could make them on a whim with panty items. I did use milk instead of cream. Definitely do not skip the glaze!
Despite the comments, I found that the scones actually lasted pretty well for a few days.
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Website: King Arthur Flour
These waffles are much less sweet than my usual recipe. Not a bad thing some times. Great to set up the batter the night before and be ready to go in the morning. Definitely have a yeasty flavor.
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Website: Epicurious
Having never made collard greens before, I was surprised at the variety of cooking times out there! This recipe seemed like a good mid-level, of about an hour. This came out terrific - we really liked the vinegar with bacon and greens. Will definitely make it again.
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Breakfast Book
By Marion Cunningham
Knopf - 1987
I've made this a bunch of times. It's very tasty, but often comes out very thin after it deflates.
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Love this recipe! Have been making it for years, and it's always a great breakfast.
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A great use for leftover mashed potatoes. Add bacon, bake and you have a great breakfast side!
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Website: Serious Eats
This was a nice change from my usual roasted aspaaragus. The sauce was rich and tasty. The mustard I used was not very grainy, and I think it might be even better next time. Definitely a keeper.
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Website: The Food Network
Made this as written, and it came out very tasty. It's very rich, and has good flavor. Great use for the abundance of broccoli right now!
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Cinnamon, Spice, & Warm Apple Pie: Comforting Baked Fruit Desserts for Chilly Days
By Ryland Peters & Small
Ryland Peters & Small - 2010
Aside from the great name (apple dappy apple dappy apple dappy), this is a very tasty recipe. It's easy to put together. It tastes sort of like a cobbler, but in the form of a dessert roll. I'd suggest making the apple filling earlier and let it cool a lot more than the recipe indicates. My filling was still warm and started to melt the dough. But it still worked. I might also add some cinnamon. It's odd that there no spices.
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Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe
By Joanne Chang, Christie Matheson
Chronicle Books - 2010
Tasty, but I expected more somehow. For all of the steps involved (chopping cranberries, toasting and coating pecans) it came out like a pretty basic cranberry bread.
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Whoopie Pies : Dozens of Mix 'em, Match 'em, Eat 'em Up Recipes
By Sarah Billingsley, Amy Treadwell, Antonis Achilleos
Chronicle Books - 2010
This is a basic buttercream recipe, and works fine for whoopie pie fillings, but I really have to urge everyone to go with the classic Fluff filling.
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Website: King Arthur Flour
I made this, and I think I added too much broth. It was definitely thinner than I like. Measuring a pound of cauliflower isn't really a helpful measurement when working with the whole head. I just put in what looked right, but the cauliflower cooked down more than I thought.
The flavor is good though, and I would definitely try it again.
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Not Your Mother's Casseroles
By Faith Durand
Harvard Common Press - 2011
This was a nice recipe. Nothing awesome, but something a little different from my usual fish preparation. I left out the jalapenos and cilantro, as I didn't have them on hand. One or the other would probably help perk this up.
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This was an easy recipe to put together, definitely a plus for a breakfast dish. I didn't have apricot jam, so substituted a good orange marmalade. It definitely depends heavily on the jam used, so don't cheap out.
The description is accurate that its not too rich like many breakfast bread casseroles, but that's not a problem. It was tasty. But somehow it's not very compelling. I can't put my finger on what it needs to bump it up a little.
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Website: MoonPie
The recipe looks totally excessive, until you realize it makes 2 9x13 pans, which is way more than most people need!
Overall, it was a tasty bread pudding, although the recipe has too much cloves, which I think overpower the flavors. Other than the melty marshmallow bits, it was hard to tell that there were MoonPies there. It was fun, and a big hit at my office, but I can't say it was any better than just using bread.
I think that in the future, I'll keep my MoonPie and bread pudding obsessions separate.
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Website: Smitten Kitchen
This was good. Nice flavors, good texture.
I wasn't sure what to serve it with, and on it's own it seemed to miss something. It seems kind of heavy to be a side dish, so I'm still at a loss.
It was actually even better for lunch the next day. I think it will be a great salad to bring to a pot-luck.
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Website: White On Rice Couple
Not too complicated, tasty, nothing spectacular. We liked it and will probably make it again, if we have spaghetti squash on hand from the CSA.
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The 1997 Joy of Cooking
By Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Irma S. Rombauer
Scribner - 1997
I was specifically looking for a bread pudding recipe that didn't use cream. This one uses milk, and only 4 eggs. Given that, it came out very well. Not the amazing richness of a bread pudding with heavy cream and 8 eggs, but still tasty. I replaced the raisins with dried cherries, which I really liked.
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Website: The Kitchn
These were very tasty. I liked a simple baked meatball idea, and these worked well. I had a light hand on the spices, since it seemed like a lot of flavors, but you can definitely punch it up even more.
It does make lots, so plenty to freeze for later.
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Not Your Mother's Casseroles
By Faith Durand
Harvard Common Press - 2011
A good recipe to have on hand as kale starts arriving in droves from the CSA. Don't skimp on the cheese.
It's basically sauteed greens, mixed with pasta and cheese and baked. The lemon adds some nice flavor. Plenty of room for experimentation, and a good make-ahead recipe.
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Website: Smitten Kitchen
I have been obsessed with trying this recipe, and unfortunately it did not live up to my hopes. It was a lot of work (peel and seed the tomatoes, make the crust, shred the cheese, etc.) and the end result just didn't merit it. Maybe I was too light on the herbs or the cheese, but it just came out bland.
I loved the biscuit crust. I wish I liked the end result more.
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Website: New York Times - Recipes
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This was a nice change from eating plain corn on the cob. Grating the corn is tiresome after a while. I think next time I have to cook it longer - it might not have been as brown and caramelized as intended, as a result it just tasted like corn and nothing more.
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Website: Smitten Kitchen
I found I needed a lot more flour than called for - probably due to overly juicy berries. These were great right out of the oven. Somehow, I kept expecting them to be like scones but they were light and definitely biscuit-y. Not too sweet either.
They do not keep well, as she says in the recipe. Better to eat them all right away!
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Website: Waffleizer
How can you resist something called a S'moreffle?
I tried this and made a huge mess though. The graham cracker waffle was too dry, and impossible to get out of the waffle iron. That made it even harder to put back in the waffle iron to melt the chocolate and marshamallows. We managed to get a few pieces to eat, and it was tasty, but it was just not meant to be.
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Cinnamon, Spice, & Warm Apple Pie: Comforting Baked Fruit Desserts for Chilly Days
By Ryland Peters & Small
Ryland Peters & Small - 2010
I really wanted this to be good. I made my own ricotta, I sepnt ages pitting and slicing cherries, I used phyllo dough and lots of butter. But it just didn't work as well together as all of the component parts.
There was too much filling for the phyllo dough, which might have contributed to some sogginess. But it was also lacking any strong flavors - ricotta and cooked cherries came out pretty mild, and there were no other spices in the recipe as written.
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Breakfast Book
By Marion Cunningham
Knopf - 1987
I've had lots of good recipes from this cookbook, but this basic pancake recipe is not one. They always come out flat. Try Joy of Cooking instead.
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Website: The Food Network
One of those classic disasters. I'm willing to take my part of the blame for choosing the wrong pan to cook this in, but a 2.5 lb pork butt still wasn't done in 3 hours, and the spices used in this recipe were terrible. We couldn't eat it.
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