Lisa on December 21st, 2011

Nothing adds an easy touch of elegance to holiday desserts like freshly whipped cream. (Skip the aerosol can!) Be sure to chill your beaters and bowl before whipping away, either by putting them in the fridge for a good 30 minutes or by popping them into the freezer for a quick 10. I like to [...]

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Lisa on October 29th, 2010

Most cookies are meant to be eaten alone, but a few cookies have so much flavor and are so sturdy that you can do all kinds of things with them: process them into crumbs and then make pie crusts out of them, crumble them into coarse chunks and layer them with fruit and yogurt to [...]

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Lisa on August 16th, 2010

Food is like fashion: trends keep coming back. In the case of fashion, that’s not always welcome (the current resurgence of 80s-style Spandex pants — c’mon, folks, not a good look then, not a good look now!), but when it comes to food, reclaiming traditional ingredients is a wonderful thing.  We’ve gotten so enamored of [...]

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In the world of natural sweeteners — i.e., unrefined sweeteners like maple syrup and molasses — there aren’t as many solid sweeteners as there are liquid ones.  Normally, this works out fine when baking, because most baked goods include liquids (which allows you to tinker with the overall total amount of liquids), but some baked [...]

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