Baking
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Happy Year of the Tiger: Chinese Almond Cookies
Celebrating Lunar New Year with Chinese Almond Cookies! May the Year of the Tiger bring many blessings, prosperity, and good health to you and your family. As a kid, I always looked forward…
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Happy Diwali: Orange & Almond Cake
Happy Diwali to all those celebrating this joyous holiday of the Festival of Lights across the Indian subcontinent. This calls for a delicious Orange & Almond Cake to share with family and friends. It’s…
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Blueberry Banana Oat Muffins
I have tons of ripe bananas, but don’t want to make yet another banana bread. Let’s try making some delicious blueberry banana oat muffins! It’s kid-friendly, freezer-friendly, and transport-friendly. We tend to have…
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Galette des Rois to mark Epiphany
Galette des Rois is a traditional French dessert known as “king cake” usually eaten to celebrate Epiphany. The 6th of January marks the Twelfth Night of Christmas. On 6th of January, Christians around…
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Happy Diwali
From my family to yours, wishing you a very happy Diwali on the occasion of Hindu New Year. Diwali is the Festival of Lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains across India and…
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Oatmeal & Cranberry Cookies
There’s nothing like healthy oatmeal and cranberry cookies for a toddler playdate. As Salman Rushdie once said, “in the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” Late into my pregnancy with Lady…
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Falling for Fall: Coffee Cake with Streusel
Get in the mood for autumn with this amazing cinnamon coffee cake. Fall is definitely in the air. We’re just a few days shy from the autumnal equinox, one of two occasions when…
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Classic Cheesecake with Wild Blackberries
One of summer’s simple pleasure is foraging for wild blackberries and other edible items. Forage, the act of searching and collecting food in the wild, has recently made it into the foodie vernacular.…
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Gooseberry Crumble
Gooseberry? What are those? You either love them or hate them. Admittedly I never tasted gooseberries until I moved to the U.K. Where I grew up in California, there’s no shortage of fresh…
