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  • Recipe The Secret to Great Banana Bread No Matter What Recipe You Use
    The Secret to Great Banana Bread No Matter What Recipe You Use
    Banana bread is one of those things like chocolate chip cookies and pot roast.  Everyone thinks theirs (or their mother's or their grandmother's) is the best.  I don't exactly have one banana bread recipe, I'm always trying different kinds, some[...]
  • Recipe My Great-Grandmother's Plum Cake Won First Place in MoMA's Recipe Contest
    My Great-Grandmother's Plum Cake Won First Place in MoMA's Recipe Contest
    My Great-great-grandmother's German Plum Cake recipe won first place in a competition sponsored by MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art, New York). (You can see a video of the event here , complete with yours truly all dressed in chef's clothes,[...]
  • Recipe Norwegian Pancakes, or Lapper
    Norwegian Pancakes, or Lapper (1 vote)
    I first ate these when I visited R for the first time in Norway, the trip during which I first met his family, saw where he lived, and realized that there are places on this earth where it can actually rain for 85 days straight. That sounds[...]
  • Recipe Komler, Norwegian Potato Dumplings
    Komler, Norwegian Potato Dumplings (1 vote)
    If I had to guess without actually asking him, I'd say Komler is R's favorite meal. He talks about his mother's Komler all the time, and put in a request for them the first time I traveled to Norway to meet his family. He brags that his[...]
  • Recipe Lentil Chili Burgers
    Lentil Chili Burgers
    So let's say you made Mollie (with an "ie") Katzen's Lentil Chili , like I did the other night. But let's also say that you live in a family of two and didn't bother cutting the recipe down. You might be thinking, what in the world should I[...]
  • Recipe Spiced Persimmon Shake
    Spiced Persimmon Shake
    I don't care what all the shop windows are saying, or the music playing inside those shops, it's still autumn in New York and not Christmas. Autumn in New York. I love this city. Makes me want to eat pumpkin things, and put[...]
  • Recipe Manhattan Clam Chowder
    Manhattan Clam Chowder
    So the other weekend, R and I took the train from Manhattan out to New England to visit my Nana, aunts, uncles and cousins. And on the first day, my aunt J served this Manhattan Clam Chowder...in New England. Of course, the difference[...]
  • Recipe Crème de Menthe Brownies
    Crème de Menthe Brownies
    I have been thinking about these brownies for ten years. Ten. That's since high school. I mean, I realize my dad teases me by saying that I've never forgotten a meal (which is true) but ten years is a long time to pine after brownies. My[...]
  • Recipe My Nana's Blueberry Buckle
    My Nana's Blueberry Buckle
    We all have recipes that remind us of childhood. This one reminds me of both childhood and summer. Weeks spent at my grandparents' house in Connecticut, playing in the pool, cuddling the dog, chasing the cousins around the yard. Actually,[...]
  • Recipe Balsamic Onion and Polenta Cake
    Balsamic Onion and Polenta Cake
    So you know sometimes when you have a bunch of flavors kind of bumbling around in your head, and maybe odds and ends in the pantry you haven't looked at lately. And sometimes the two mix and create strange cravings, or at least, impulses.[...]