Food is my Love Language :

Zach's La Bomba

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Heavenly Cake Baker  Submission #47 This is the last cake for Marie and many of our bakers.  What a finish!  My bombe is far from the perfection in Rose's photo (didn't you love the cake plate used in Rose's shot?  It[...]

Kalafior Surówka - Polish Fresh Vegetable Salad & Thermomix

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Last Friday was a fun day.  I rode a bike for the first time in fifteen years and learned a new recipe.  My friend , El ?bieta, invited me to spend the day with her in Swarz?dz , a suburb of Pozna?.  After cold, blustery[...]

Whie Velvet Butter Cupcakes

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Heavenly Cake Baker Submission #46 I wasn't looking forward to this recipe - white cake, white frosting, how special can it be?  I could not have been more wrong.  The cake is soft and fragrant with vanilla.  The frosting[...]

Pizza Crust - Margherita Pizza

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  We've been searching, in vain, for a pizza stone.  We finally gave in and made pizza on a pan.  It was delicious.  We used Jamie Oliver's recipe for the dough.  We used 1/4 of the recipe below per pizza (we have a[...]

Homemade Bagels

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 There's a bagel restaurant in Poznan; I'll blog about them later.  The get their bagels from Berlin - 3 hours away, and they're very proud of them.  From everything I'd heard, bagels are not difficult to make; it's not like it[...]

Turkey Meatloaf with Sauce

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This should be called Sharon's turkey meatloaf.  Before I moved to Poland, I was part of church staff, and Sharon, our pastor and a wonderful cook, brought something like this for lunch one day. I thought about calling Sharon to[...]

Apple Upside-Down Cake

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Heavenly Cake Baker Submission #45 I've made about half of the recipes in this book, and we're on our second week of free choice.  I decided to start at the beginning.  Recipe #1, Apple Upside-Down Cake.  Ed is a big fan of[...]

First Attempt at Macarons

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I've been a Heavenly Cake baker for over a year now.  Many of Rose's recipes will call for just egg yolks, or just egg whites.  Every time I put egg whites in my freezer, I tell myself, I should try making macarons.  I finally[...]

Spice Cake with Peanut Buttercream

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Heavenly Cake Baker Submission #44 I was looking for something quick and easy for my free choice this week.  I decided on the Spice Cake with Peanut Buttercream.  It was the first cake Marie (our fearless leader) baked,[...]

Making Chicken Soup in Poland

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The idea of nose-to-tail eating - consuming every bit of an animal without waste is experiencing a resurgence.  Cutting edge chefs are returning to a methods practiced by peasants for eons.  I'm living in Poland where jellied pigs[...]