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Lace Cookies

Lace Cookies

Okay, I’ve jumped the gun. I’ve already started baking Christmas cookies, even though I’ve barely made plans for what I’m going to bake for Thanksgiving dessert. (The plans that I did make are grand, I must say, and for the first time in many years they don’t involve pie.) Well, so be it. Fools rush in, they say, but I just couldn’t help myself. At least I’m a happy fool. I spent a couple of blissful weeks testing this recipe for lace cookies, the delight unshattered by sporadic batches of deformed, burned or limp cookies. (I ate them all.) Things … Continue reading

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Quinoa Patties

Quinoa Patties

I don’t even dare to count how many times I’ve made bean and nut loaves, tempeh meatballs, or veggie burger patties that fell apart the moment fork or knife touched them. The recipes I used offered clever tricks for replacing the eggs that are essential for binding all the ingredients in these recipes together. But none of the suggestions really worked. Some of the tricks seemed not so much clever as strange. One recipe used prepared oatmeal, of all things, to give a tempeh meatloaf a resilient texture while keeping it both tender and moist. The difference was, this strange … Continue reading

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