These delicious pumpkin muffins were on Saturday’s baking class menu. The recipe, which I only modified slightly, is from Baking: From My Home to Yours
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From the monthly archives:
October 2008
Whoopie Pies are an old-time favorite from my childhood. They are definitely regional treats - common in New England. For those unfamiliar, whoopie pies are homemade chocolate cookie cakes with a creamy vanilla filling. Recipes for whoopie pies vary considerably. My mom has collected several versions through the years, often using the cake from one recipe and the filling from another to come up with her perfect combination.
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This is one of those special banana nut muffin recipes that will jump start your day—a moist subtly mocha-flavored banana muffin enhanced with macadamias and semi-sweet chocolate mini chips. It’s made healthy with white whole wheat flour, bananas, and yogurt, and contains only 1/4 cup of butter, which equals only 1 teaspoon per muffin.
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Are you craving moist banana bread? I’ve found the recipe for you. It is from a cookbook called, The Weekend Baker: Irresistible Recipes, Simple Techniques, and Stress-Free Strategies for Busy People
by Abigail Johnson Dodge, a contributing Editor at Fine Cooking. I grew up eating dry banana bread and have been experimenting with various recipes for years in search of a consistently moist banana bread that isn’t too full of fat. (If you add enough butter and/or sour cream to any banana bread recipe it will be moist; but I like to eat banana bread relatively often, not as a special occasion dessert.)
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This salmon cakes recipe is perfect when you need to get dinner on the table in a hurry. Salmon cakes are a great example of the power of the well-stocked pantry, containing just a few common ingredients including canned salmon, a decades old American staple. Canned salmon comes in two varieties - sockeye or red salmon, and chum or pink salmon. I used pink salmon, which is less expensive and milder tasting, in this salmon cakes recipe. [click to continue…]
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If you could only have one cookbook, what would it be? Which cookbook do you consider your ‘go to’ cookbook. I love to cook and have lots of cookbooks, but if I could have only one, which one would I keep?
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This recipe for hamburger goulash with elbow macaroni is an old stand-by straight from Mom’s recipe box. She learned to make this ground beef and macaroni skillet dish by watching her friend’s mom back in the 1950s in a small town in rural coastal Maine. It’s how we learned to cook once upon a time long before the Food Network - at the sides of our moms, grandmas, aunts, and friends’ moms.
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Did you know October 1 is Homemade Cookies Day or that October is National Cookie Month? Many foods have days honoring them, including many different kinds of cookies. On a more serious note, October is also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So in honor of my 91-year-old grandmother, a breast cancer survivor, I made a batch of her crunchy jumble cookies today.
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