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Crazy Bread

Posted on October 6, 2011 by mct
Crazy Bread

  My  husband has taken to giving me baking challenges. I have to admire his timing. Just when the tedium of kitchen work begins to bring me down, he comes up to me and asks me if I think I can replicate this or that dessert from his childhood, or a favorite dinner he ate at university. He doesn’t give me easy assignments. I still haven’t figured out how to make a vegan version of a chocolate and peanut butter fudge a childhood friend’s mom was famous for. But when he suggested that I try my hand at baking the … Continue reading →

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Date-Walnut Bread

Posted on April 21, 2011 by mct
Date-Walnut Bread

I’ve grown quite fond of dates lately. I mean the dried fruit, of course. (I’ve always been fond of the other kind, with my sweetheart husband.)  Dried dates used to make me nervous, candy-sweet and high in calories as they are. But in the last few weeks I started snacking on them in order to curb my cravings for dark chocolate. You might think that’s like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. But the trick is portion control: whereas I’m able to tuck in embarrassingly large quantities of chocolate without quite satisfying my sweet tooth, it takes a … Continue reading →

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