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A fine challenge

Meredith

Posted on July 20, 2013

Sometimes going to a new restaurant or reading food blogs can offer plenty of negative reinforcement for the mantra “less is more.”  To me, sophistication does not equal complexity or overwrought combinations of hard to find ingredients. Although, some places seem to make combining strange ingredients into  a sort of art form.  For the most part, I frown upon this.  Maybe it’s my Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, since I am pretty sure I am not the only cook in my family who feels this way. This is not to say I do not have an open mind, seek out diverse foods, or am afraid to try new things.  (My people did apparently invent this, so don’t think we aren’t fun!)  I am not an unfussy cook,…

Categories: dessert, recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: cake, cream cheese, recipe, sponge cake, strawberry, strawberry cream cake, summer dessert, whipped cream

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summer cakes, part one: z is for zucchini

Meredith

Posted on July 23, 2011

Zucchini is one of our go-to vegetables here in South Texas.  When almost everything at the store seems to be shipped from California– or worse, South America– you can almost always be sure to find a great looking Texas zucchini.  Particularly in summer.  So it is only right, since we must eat these zucchini, that we turn them into cake.  It really was for the best. I know some folks have begun blogs by cooking their way through their large cookbook collections.  But since we are starting tsp. in the era when bloggers not only have blogs but their own apps, I thought I would bake some cakes from some of my favorite blogs.  My avatar always feels left out when I crack open a book.  Really, I don’t have an…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: bundt, cake, italian, nutmeg, olive oil, recipe, zucchini

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