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Rose's Heavenly Cakes
By Rose Levy Beranbaum
Wiley - 2009
This is Rose's signature cake ( and mine) made larger and more flavorful. This version adds sour cream to the recipe, that gives it a wonderful mouthfeel. It has a rich buttery flavor, perfumed with lemon and an added crunch of poppy seeds. I have made the original recipe (Cake Bible) many, many times over the years, and I'm sure this version will become a family favorite.
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This is a small cake (6 inches) perfect for a few people. It is a deep dark fudgy chocolate cake, with vanilla buttercream frosting. It has a good balance of ingredients that combine to give you the most delicious bite of chocolate cake. The frosting isn't too sweet, but complements the cake beautifully. I added a little bit of raspberry preserves to the buttercream for the filling in the cake. Everyone wanted seconds.
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Bon Appetit Weekend Entertaining: A Cookbook, Menu Planner & Entertaining Sourcebook for Occasions Large or Small, Casual or Elegant
By Bon Appetit Editors
Pantheon - 1999
This recipe is great for lunch, brunch even a light dinner.
These frittatas have a nice combination of vegetables, onions, eggplant, peppers and Kalamata olives. It also has two cheeses, Parmesan and feta. They give the frittatas rich taste and a bit of saltiness. This recipe makes four frittatas, but you can easily reduce the amounts. The recipe is also a base to experiment with different ingredients to make your own flavor combinations.
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Website: Cooks Illustrated
If you love cresent rolls, you will love these homemade rolls. They are soft, buttery and delicious. They can be made ahead, partially baked, and then frozen for up to 1 month. Defrost, bake ready for next dinner party.
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Website: Cooks Illustrated
This chicken recipe has all of the good attributes of fried chicken without the bad. It is crispy, crunchy on the outside and moist and delicious on the inside. The secret to this recipe is that the crust is made with melba toast crumbs. It requires a little bit of work upfront, but it is all worth it once you taste the chicken.
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Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day
By Peter Reinhart
Ten Speed Press - 2009
I had to make this bread after all the great reviews on this website and others. Well, they were right, this bread is easy as it is delicious. My family loved the bread, and I plan to make the baguettes often. When I cut into the bread and saw the large holes, I was very excited. But when I tasted the bread, I was sold on this recipe.
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Website: The Food Network
This recipe is from famed Irish cooking school teacher, Darina Allen. Simple to make and has a great fresh flavor from the herbs, rosemary, sage, thyme, chives, and parsley.
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Website: King Arthur Flour
This bread is typically made in South America, and because they are made with tapioca starch the buns are gluten-free. They have a nice flavor from parmesan cheese and garlic. Good with soup or a snack. Reheats quickly in the microwave.
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Very tasty and quick to put together. I changed a few things,added red pepper flakes and put it together in the serving bowl instead of the pan. Added the breadcrumbs last,so they stayed crispy. This dish is all about the olives, so you must like them.
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Website: Martha Stewart
These crepes are good for brunch, dessert or even an appetizer. They are easy to make and naturally gluten-free. Honey is mixed with the ricotta and also drizzled on top.
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Website: King Arthur Flour
These little molten chocolate cakes are cute and delicious. Easy to make, but I had some trouble getting them out of the pan. The chocolate pieces that you put in the middle, stuck to the bottom of the pan. Next time I will try a nonstick pan.
This recipe makes 32 mini cakes, but they freeze beautifully. Reheat for a few seconds in the microwave.
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Website: Cooks Illustrated
This pizza is good for an appetizer or a light lunch. The dough can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to 24 hours. It is a very wet dough that needs to be poured into the pan and spread into the corners with your fingers. It is a plain pizza with a sprinkling of kosher salt and rosemary. Easy to make and delicious.
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This chicken is moist and delicious. It is a very easy recipe, brown chicken in a pot and then pop it in the oven. Very good on a cold winter's night.
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This recipe uses cottage cheese instead of ricotta. Since I am an Italian-American I was very skeptical of this recipe. I made it for my family and they loved it, no one knew that it was cottage cheese.
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This is a very good recipe because the short ribs are browned in the oven. The rest of the recipe is standard technique and produces a great short rib.
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This soup is delicious, with a true tomato taste. The soup is thickened with bread instead of cream and that lets the flavors of the tomato shine through.
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Dessert Circus: Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home (Pbs Series)
By Jacques Torres
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1998
You wouldn't think that cornflakes could be so great, but when they are covered with chocolate they are fantastic.
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Website: Cooks Illustrated
These cookies are delicious.They have a very full chocolate flavor. Two different forms of chocolate are used, cocoa powder and semi-sweet chocolate. The recipe calls for espresso powder to boost the chocolate flavor even more.
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This pie dough is different in technique and that half the water is replaced by vodka. The dough is wetter and easier to roll out.The vodka vaporizes in the oven and using less water makes the dough more tender. Great recipe, I use it for all my pies and tarts.
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Website: Cooks Illustrated
The recipe has been tweaked a bit, from the original no-knead recipe. The dough is not as wet as the original, needs some kneading and it replaces some of the water with a mild-flavored lager. It is an easy recipe that produces a great bread.
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Website: Martha Stewart
These biscotti, with the combination of chocolate and pistachio are delicious. They are softer than a traditional biscotti.
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Website: Orangette
Really, really good, so much better than store-bought. Easy to make and great to give as a gift. Very additive.
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Website: The Food Network
This is one of my favorites, the chicken is moist and tender and the sauce is smooth and silky. I don't like peas so I substituted green beans and corn. I make extra and freeze them, then I can have them anytime.
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This dough is made with over a cup of honey,and it has a filling of chocolate, cream and almonds. It's a very sticky dough, so it must be rolled between two pieces of wax paper. But it's worth the effort, the cookies are great.
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Very easy to make, and an impressive ending to your next dinner party.
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East to put together. Light and refreshing
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Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home
By Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter - 2004
This tart is delicious. It can be served as a appetizer or a light lunch. The filling is smooth and creamy with the tang of goat cheese, and the crust is crisp and buttery.
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Website: The Food Network
These burgers are stuffed with roasted red peppers and mozzarella. Healthy and delicious.
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This recipe is courtesy of a Jesuit priest. The is delicious and easy to make. It has raisins and the wonderful flavor of caraway seeds.
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It's an apple tatin with cake instead of pastry. Apples with caramel atop a layer of moist cake. Really good.
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I made these cupcakes for my daughter's wedding shower. The cupcake mixture contains sour cream to make them moist and delicious. There is also a cream cheese frosting that goes beautifully with them.
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Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
By Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter - 2002
It 's a two part recipe, first you have to make a recipe of roasted winter vegetables, page 110. Then you can make the soup that on page 33. The idea of a roasted vegetable soup is good, but I added a few extra seasonings.
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The Perfect Recipe
By Pam Anderson Executive Editor, Judith D. Love
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2001
Very creamy and delicious, easy to make.
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The Hay Day Country Market Cookbook
By Kim Rizk
Workman Publishing Company - 1998
Everyone loves B.L.T.'s, so what a great idea to put those flavors in a pasta salad. Try varying the pasta shapes. This salad is light and flavorful.
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How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques
By Steven Raichlen
Workman Publishing Company - 2001
This recipe is more about technique, than ingredients. I used a lemon-lime soda can instead of the beer. The chicken was delicious, very moist and tender.
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Ciao Italia
By Mary Ann Esposito
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1991
It sounds like an odd combination, but the vinegar, with a little sugar bring out the flavor of the strawberries.
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I use the crespelle batter to make manicotti. The filling consists of ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan cheeses. Sometimes I add spinach. It makes a manicotti that is more tender than the traditional.
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This soup is also known as Italian Wedding Soup. My mother used to make this for me when I was little but she added pastina and so do I.
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Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts and Sweets from the Creator of Fran's Chocolates
By Fran Bigelow, Helene Siegel
Broadway - 2004
This is a delicious torte that I made for a friend's birthday. Since it contains no flour it was perfect because he is on a gluten-free diet. It has a great flavor combination of chocolate, orange and almonds. The Chocolate Butter Glaze is beautiful topping.
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The Paris Cookbook
By Patricia Wells
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2001
This recipe came from the lady that sells apples at a farmers market in Paris. She said she begged for months for the recipe, and I'm glad she did. It has the true flavor apples without too much cake.
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Nathalie Dupree's Southern Memories: Recipes and Reminiscences
By Nathalie Dupree, Tom Eckerle
University of Georgia Press - 2004
These are the first cheese straws I ever made, delicious then and delicious now. Fun to make too.
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The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook
By King Arthur Flour
Countryman Press - 2003
This is my go to recipe for chocolate chip cookies. I have tried many recipes,but this one yields a cookie my family loves, soft and chewy.
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I made this for a Super Bowl Party. It is a two crust pizza pie with a filling of your choice. I used a spinach,ricotta and parmesan filling. Delicious.
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I looked at many recipes before I found this one. My family likes stollen with an almond paste filling, this one is excellent. I have made this recipe twice and it came out better than any store bought stollen. It takes quite a bit of time to make, but it yields three loaves that you can freeze or give away.
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Best of Arizona: Recipes from Arizona's Favorite Resorts & Restaurants
By Marjorie Scaffidi
Treasure Chest Books - 1992
Very unusual way to treat avocados, but delicious. Slightly crunchy and spicy on the outside and cool and creamy on the inside.
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Baking Bread: Old and New Traditions
By Beth Hensperger, Joyce Oudkerk
Chronicle Books - 1992
In the section called picnic breads, there is a shallot and poppy seed bread that is wonderful. It takes a little bit of work, but the instructions are easy to follow. With a filling of shallots, onions, parmesan cheese, poppy seeds and butter, it's almost a meal.
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Website: Martha Stewart
Very simple and easy recipe for madeleines. You can use different flavors of honey to give this recipe some variation.
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Website: Martha Stewart
This is a yeast cake so it needs time to rise. They are worth the time it takes to make them. Traditionally they are made on Good Friday, but they are delicious anytime.
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Website: Cooking Light
This is a simple recipe, but there is alot of chopping. Use a good quality tomato juice and the soup will be delicious.
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Website: Epicurious
Very simple, easy, different and delicious.
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