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Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

January 3, 2012

When I was a senior in high school, our varsity basketball team lost every single game. Following previous undefeated seasons, the 0-20 record was especially hard for the seniors on the team to swallow and a topic that no one especially liked talking about. At this time, I worked on the school newspaper, where I [...]

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Apple Walnut Quick Bread

July 9, 2011

Apples and walnuts and quick breads all sound like things that belong in the fall. And I understand, really, I do. You see, as I’m writing this very post, I would truly rather I would rather be outside by the pool.  As much as I like fresh seafood, grilled corn on the cob and tart [...]

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Easy Bread Recipe That Anyone Can Make: No-Knead Refrigerator Bread

April 6, 2011

I love to cook. And bake. But more than that I love to break bread and talk about food with likeminded people. So, I thought I would bring some of that sharing to In Good Taste with a few guest posts to liven things up a little. I’ve baked my share of bread but when [...]

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Simple Hostess Gifts or Party Favors: Miniature Quick Breads

January 8, 2011

You have a party to go to and you'd really like to bring your hostess a gift but you don't want to spend money (admit it). You need a gift for that friend who has everything. You have a baking itch Tuesday afternoon but you'd rather save your cake-and-cookie calories for Saturday night. In any [...]

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brie and chive biscuits

Thanksgiving Bread Basket: Brie & Chive Biscuits

November 24, 2010

I love bread. I love rolls, I love baguettes and I love bisuits. What I don’t love are those little pillow-ey dinner rolls that you get at the grocery store, that so many people buy for Thanksgiving out of convenience. I am all for convenience. Huge fan of convenience. But since you’re reading my blog, [...]

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peanut butter banana bread

Is Banana Bread Bad for You? (Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe)

October 23, 2010

The question: is banana bread bad for you? is what brings a lot of readers to this site, according to my good friends at Google Analytics. The answer: of course not. Now, I’m not saying that banana bread is health food, but that everything in moderation is A-OK. I mean, think about it. Broccoli is [...]

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healthy zucchini bread

Zucchini Bread, Healthified

May 13, 2010

When zucchini showed up in my CSA this week, I wasn’t quite sure how to prepare it, but I also knew that I didn’t want it to meet an untimely demise in my refrigerator, as enigmatic produce sometimes has a tendency to do. Despite the presence of a green vegetable, zucchini bread is usually loaded [...]

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cherry lime scones

Bake Sale Bounty: Cherry Lime Scones

April 13, 2010

Sometimes, ingredients just scream to me, and I’m not quite sure why. I’ll pick up a mango with no idea how I’m going to use it until it’s ripe, I’ll buy artichokes that will sit in my cabinet for months before they turn into spinach and artichoke fritatta. A few days ago when I was [...]

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multigrain bread

National Food Blogger Bake Sale: Saturday, April 17, 2010

April 9, 2010

Mark your calendars for April 17th 2010! This is the big day! We are kicking off the Share Our Strength fundraising season with the first annual National Food Bloggers Bake Sale!! Love to bake? Love to eat? Then, you might want to read on. Earlier this year, my friend Gaby Dalkin contacted me about helping [...]

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pizza bianca

Jim Lahey’s Pizza Bianca

April 4, 2010

Is there anyone out there who doesn’t like pizza? Initially, I say no, no that isn’t possible. Everyone likes pizza. But of course, there are the lactose intolerant, gluten-free dieters and people who simply don’t like the combination of thin, crispy crust topped with rich mozzarella cheese and a full-bodied, rustic tomato sauce… I digress. [...]

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apricot mini muffin scones

The Breakfast Rules: Apricot Mini-Muffin Cream Scones

March 18, 2010

Have you ever eaten a scone and wished that it didn’t make so many damn crumbs? Well, I have. An important characteristic in breakfast, especially on the weekdays, is that it be portable. Not portable like a granola bar that I can eat in two bites on the bus in the morning, but portable enough [...]

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banana chocolate chip bread

Monkey Bars (Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Bread)

March 15, 2010

If you look, at any given time on my kitchen counter, you’ll find bananas. Bananas are a shopping list staple for this single girl. They’re healthy, compact and versatile – you can pop them in cereal, eat one before a workout or transport in your purse for an on-the-go potassium fix. The problem with bananas [...]

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soft pretzel

Homemade Soft Pretzels (A recipe that anyone can make)

March 8, 2010

Whenever I don’t have immediate plans to eat in a restaurant, I am usually daydreaming about the great places I want to try: a BYOB that I read about in Grub Street Chicago, a great vegetarian place a friend told me about, a cute wine bar that I pass on my way from the bus [...]

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marbled rye bread

The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge: Week 19 (Not-So Marbled Rye Bread)

March 4, 2010

As you can see, I’m using the term “marbled” very loosely here, as the bread you’re looking at is not even remotely marbled. Before I start making excuses, maybe I’d better tell you how we got to this point to begin with. Last May (or maybe it was June) I accepted a challenge along with [...]

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whole wheat muffins with golden raisins

Whole Wheat Muffins with Pecans and Golden Raisins

February 18, 2010

Sometimes I joke that I’m not even going to think about having kids (or even a pet) until I can manage to get myself out the door in the morning, in one piece. Even though my only real responsibilities before 9am are to get from bed to shower to bus to work (and sometimes stopping [...]

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perfect cornbread

Irony: Simple Cornbread Recipe

February 4, 2010

I love irony. I grew up in a small suburb in New Jersey where there wasn’t very much history or culture. When you wanted history or culture you took a train for an hour in either direction and visited New York City or Philadelphia. However, there was a former dairy farm in our town that [...]

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Thanksgiving Leftovers: Cranberry Cornmeal Quick Bread Recipe

November 29, 2009

On Thanksgiving I posted some ways to repurpose Thanksgiving leftovers on my page at Examiner.com. I shared a round-up of recipes that use Thanksgiving leftovers – from the turkey to the cranberry sauce to the excess of green beans brimming from your vegetable drawer. What I haven’t yet shared is a new recipe that I [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 18) Light Wheat Bread

November 19, 2009

Of all of the breads that I’ve baked in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge, I have had a few favorites. To Peter Reinhart, i selecting a favorite might be a little too much like choosing a favorite child, but for me the cinnamon buns and English muffins were, in their own rite, unrivaled. However, no [...]

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On a Roll: NaBloPoMo and Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

November 13, 2009

When I committed to NaBloPoMo, I’m not sure that I realized the commitment it would entail. Well, sure, I knew that it meant that I would post daily. It meant that I would be able to refresh my blog with a multitude of recipes that I’ve been dying to share, but for one reason or [...]

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Not-So-Bad-For-You Banana Bread

November 6, 2009

When I was in college I lost some weight on Weight Watchers. The program was excellent and I saw the results I wanted but looking back, I ate a lot of highly processed foods and chemicals in attempt to keep my calories down. I participated in a community message board where I, along with a [...]

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Not What It Seems: Whole Wheat Beer Bread

November 3, 2009

I’m a believer in personal responsibility. I don’t think that video games are responsible for teenage violence and I don’t think that Eminem songs fuel drug addictions and substance abuse. However, my one exception to that rule is Sex and the City. Sex and the City was one of my favorite shows in college, to [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 16) Kaiser Rolls

October 29, 2009

I’m going to come right out and say this. I think that New York food is overrated. Well, let’s take a step back and start from the beginning. I made Kaiser Rolls, the sixteenth bread in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, recently. They were a nice change from my usual whole grain sandwich bread, but [...]

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It’s The Great Pumpkin: Pumpkin Bread Recipe

October 18, 2009

Since I began blogging I learned that if there is one thing that die-hard home cooks love, it’s seasonal food. While I appreciate pumpkin in October, cranberries in December and strawberries in June, their arrival at the farmer’s market or grocery store means more than just having a new item on the shelf: it symbolizes [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 15) Italian Bread: Finishing What I Start

October 15, 2009

When I was a child, I wasn’t very good at finishing the things I started. If I fell during ice skating lessons, I never wanted to go again. If I didn’t feel like going to dance class, my parents pulled me out. I quit the field hockey team mid-season during my senior year of high [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 14) French Bread…Or Not

September 24, 2009

If you think I made one heck of a loaf of French bread…think again. And read on below the fold! Recently, a friend and I were talking about narcissism. Bloggers spend a great deal of timing writing into space, on our blogs and on Twitter, about ourselves, hoping people will read them, hoping people will like them, [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 13) Focaccia Bread

September 17, 2009

I’m no stranger to focaccia bread. Specifically, foccacia bread with onion and rosemary that was so good I even recommended making it to impress a date (and I promise you won’t wind up with onion breath). I wish I could whole-heartedly recommend Peter Reinhart’s recipe but for the strapped-for-time bread baker, I wouldn’t suggest anything other [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 12) English Muffins

September 10, 2009

As much as I like living in the United States, I can’t help but sometimes be jealous of other countries.Sure, we have democracy, baseball and Mount Rushmore, but think of the amazing contributions that other nations have brought to American culture. France sent us French fries and French toast, Belgium sent us Belgian waffles and [...]

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Bread Baker’s Appentice Challenge (Week 11) Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread

September 3, 2009

Peter Reinhart and I have a very different idea of what it means to celebrate. Now, keep in mind that I’ve never even met Peter Reinhart, let alone celebrated with him, but I’m basing my statement on substantiated evidence. In The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, Reinhart has a recipe for Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread. Now, I [...]

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Perfect for Date Night: Focaccia with Onion & Rosemary (And a giveaway!)

August 4, 2009

In college, I went to a fraternity formal with a guy. A guy that I liked. That might be par the course for most girls, but at a small school, I didn’t belong to a sorority and had fewer opportunities to, well, fraternize. Not to mention the fact that in high school, I probably would have been [...]

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Bread Baker’s Appentice Challenge (Week 10) Cornbread

July 23, 2009

Since I’ve been baking my way through the Bread Baker’s Apprentice, some the breads that I’ve made are new-to-me, like Antos, a Greek Celebration bread or Casatiello, a hearty Italian brioche. Others, like simple quick-breads, are a welcome change from the kneading and proofing of a lot of the BBA recipes. I occasionally feel pangs of guilt for [...]

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Bread Baker’s Appentice Challenge (Week 9) Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread Can Only Mean One Thing…Bread Pudding

July 16, 2009

Last week, I visited friends in South Carolina. Along with the culture shock that accompanies a trip to a different region of the United States, I found that the eating patterns there are different too. Restaurants take a lot more pride in eating local that the restaurants I tend to visit in New York or [...]

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Bread Baker’s Appentice Challenge (Week 8) Nice (Cinnamon) Buns

July 9, 2009

There are some words in the English language that elicit laughter. There are words like "Uranus" with slang definitions that translate into bouts of immature giggles when said out loud, particularly when uttered in a room full of seventh graders or college frat boys. There are also words like "organism" that I always feared I [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 7) Ciabatta Bread, Croutons

July 2, 2009

Today I'm going to tell you a story about a girl who does not know how to read directions. Or rather, a girl who knows how to read directions but who sometimes bites off more than she can chew and neglects to follow them. This girl is a repeat offender in the multitasking arena. She's [...]

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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge (Week 6) Challah

June 25, 2009

Since I began baking in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge six weeks ago, I’ve received some great response from a lot of my readers. Namely, I’ve had people ask me: what in the world do you do with all of that bread?  Seeing as I live alone and try to eat from food groups that [...]

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The Bread Baker ‘ s Apprentice Challenge: Bagels (Week 3)

June 4, 2009

Some say that the first known bagel was baked in Austria in 1683 when a baker from Vienna, thankful to the King of Poland for saving Austria from Turkish invaders, reshaped the local bread so that it resembled the King’s stirrup. Others say that the bagel was invented much earlier in Krakow, Poland, as a [...]

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The Bread Baker ‘ s Apprentice Challenge: Artos Greek Celebration Bread (Week Two)

May 28, 2009

In the past year I’ve learned a lot of things. I’ve learned that it’s possible to get along with people you won’t always agree with. I’ve learned that I need to keep the door to my balcony open and exhaust fan on when I turn my oven higher than 450 degrees or the smoke alarm [...]

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The Bread Baker ‘ s Apprentice Challenge: Anadama Bread (Week One)

May 21, 2009

Something that you wouldn’t know about me from reading my blog is that I’m secretly a lover of history. I watch the History Channel and I’m quietly enthralled by antiques – wondering who handled them and what they meant to that person. I love driving by historic homes that have stood proudly for hundreds of [...]

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Let Them Eat Cake: Sour Cream Coffee Cake

May 12, 2009

There is an infamous Sex and the City episode in which Miranda, a high-powered attorney and proudly independent single woman decides that she can't cope with another bad date so she goes on strike from men. She figures, what is a man when you can have a relationship with a delicious eclair? When she tires [...]

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Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day: The Only Thing You Need to Bake Bread

May 5, 2009

I'm not very good at answering form questions. "What's your favorite color?" "What's your favorite movie?" "Who's your favorite band?" "What's your favorite place to go on vacation?" All of those questions make me anxious. I like a lot of colors, I enjoy movies that are so bad I don't like to publicly admit that [...]

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Skillet Cornbread with Caramelized Onions

March 26, 2009

Ever since I was in college, when I would go home to visit my mom, at some point I would wind up rummaging through her pantry scavenging for groceries. It wasn't that I couldn't easily go to the store to buy my own, it was just that whatever already lined her shelves seemed pratical and [...]

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They ‘ re Always After Me Lucky Charms: Irish Soda Bread

March 10, 2009

I have a very Irish last name (think of O’Donaghue…it’s only a little less Irish-sounding) but know very little about the actual culture of my country of origin. I know they have a soccer team. I know that Guiness comes from Ireland. And I know that the flag is a vibrant green, white and orange. [...]

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Whole Grain Wheat Sandwich Bread Recipe

January 18, 2009

Ever since I got one of these for my birthday, I've been developing excuses to bake. Chocolate chips in the cabinet leftover from my holiday baking binge? Better turn those into cookies, STAT. Out of bread? I suppose I'll just have to make some rather than risking the trek across the street to the corner [...]

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Nutty Maple Banana Bread Recipe

December 19, 2008

When I lived in my first apartment in the city, my three roommates had the sorriest kitchen I’d ever seen. I’d been in frat houses with better collections of cookware and kept more groceries in my college dorm room than they did in their refrigerator. Since I had moved in to replace the soon-to-be-engaged roommate [...]

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B-A-N-A-N-A-S (Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe)

December 4, 2008

Even though my chocolate idiot/maybe better than sex/flourless chocolate cake will be a tough post to follow, I’ve been doing a whole lot of baking lately, what with that whole Thanksgiving thing last week. It’s been fun for the blog – not fun for my jeans. Holiday season or not, when I eat a good [...]

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Carboloading: English Muffin Bread Recipe

November 3, 2008

There goes a stereotype that women tend to crave carbohydrates and men prefer to eat protein. While my brother can easily sit and eat two hamburgers in a sitting, I could never accomplish such a feat. But put me in front of the bread basket and I’m putty in your hands. Even though I like [...]

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Blogging about Cookbooks & a Banana-Nut Bread Recipe

October 13, 2008

Even though the internet is my mecca for recipe-finding, I have amassed quite a few cookbooks over the past few years. Some were inherited from my mom, who finally admitted that she’ll never use them, some I received as gifts when I began to show an active interest in the kitchen and there are a [...]

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