ok. i got it. finally. 347 banana breads later. dear readers, i’ve figured it out. so now you don’t have to. you’re welcome. there’s a few key things here. ok one. well, one big one. because you can use all the vegetable type oils you want. but if you want it to be great, it’s [...]

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when ’08 rolls around i will not be baking for quite awhile. if i do, feel free to come to my house and kill me – but only because i will deserve it. baking isn’t even my thing but i can be way too easily coerced into going there. but let’s be honest here. if [...]

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(this piece was originally written for a more general audience, but i thought i’d share it with you lest it die a senseless death.) december is a mighty decadent month. it gives us a reason to dress better, shop harder – and eat a lot of food. restaurants are slammed, parties abound and your office-kitchen [...]

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holidays can make you do things that you wouldn’t ordinarily do were it not for the sake of the joyous diversions that we recognize as “festivity”.  some people (not me) carve out faces on big orange gourds and dress up in scary/amusing costumes, while other people display flags attached to their homes adorned with turkeys and pilgrims (also most definitely not me).  and then there are [...]

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  oh smitten, oh heidi, oh derrick and molly - forgive me for i have sinned.  and somehow, in someway i’ve gotten away with it, much to my chagrin..  i feel the need to confess… it all started when ‘french laundry at home‘ unknowingly lulled me into some kind of false sense of security that i too [...]

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tis the season to cook and bake with pumpkin.  yes, the recipes for all things orange have taken over the foodie blogosphere.  it’s literally pumpkin, squash and sweet potato mania.  so after just recently seeing someone do a lovely version of a pumpkin bundt cake that i later spotted on ‘epicurious‘, i knew i wanted to do something a bit [...]

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i realize this isn’t the usual picture you might expect to see on a pasta post here at ceF,  but what happened was this.  earlier this week angela came over and well, she’s a close friend and it’s rare these days that we get an evening together alone. we live three minutes from each other but [...]

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