Life's a feast

ENDIVE, LARDONS & CANCOILLOTTE GRATIN with a Peasant Boule

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:04:00 +0000

A BIRTHDAY AND A GIFT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt Small baby...

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GALETTE DES ROIS AUX POMMES – APPLE MAPLE CINNAMON GALETTE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:32:00 +0000

A LOVE AFFAIR Happiness is the longing for repetition. - Milan Kundera Get me going and I can’t stop. Offer me a challenge or tell me you love something. Or worse (according to critics): all I...

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CAULIFLOWER AND POTATO GRATIN

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:20:00 +0000

THE MAN COOKS… AGAIN AND AGAIN! My men are a unique bunch: they are handsome, wickedly funny, bright as all get-out, über talented and creative. But if they are anything at all, they are discreet....

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CHOCOLATE ORANGE GRAND MARNIER MADELEINES

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0000

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY TO BE COZY AND WARM The turn in the weather Will keep us together So I can honestly say That as far as I'm concerned, It's a lovely day and everything's OK. - Irving...

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GALETTE DES ROIS – King’s Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

FRENCH COMFORT FOOD “No Galette des Rois!” he wails. “No Galette des Rois?” the other asks in astonishment, then shaking his head in utter disdain. Indignation hung heavy in the air, the...

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OLD FASHIONED NEW ORLEANS BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:39:00 +0000

A BIT OF COMFORT WHEN REQUIRED The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which...

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YOGURT CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE GANACHE FROSTING

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:28:00 +0000

AND COOKIES FOR MY SON I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been...

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BEST OF 2011 – BOOKS FOR COOKING & READING

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:21:00 +0000

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. – Abraham Lincoln I love food. I love to eat. I have a food blog, after all. But while all the...

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GRAND MARNIER BUNDT WITH CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:29:00 +0000

THE YEAR IN PICTURES New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve...

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ORANGE GLAZED APPLE LATTICE COFFEE CAKE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:22:00 +0000

HAPPY, MERRY & JOYOUS! C'est la belle nuit de Noël La neige étend son manteau blanc Et les yeux levés vers le ciel A genoux les petits enfants Avant de fermer les paupières Font une...

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APPLE FRITTERS & RICH FUDGE BROWNIES FOR HANUKKAH

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:38:00 +0000

IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT The excitement mounts. Elves bustle from room to room, digging out decorations, hiding gifts, grinning impishly as they slither and slide ever-so discreetly from room to room....

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GARLIC HERB BRAID: Homebaked Bread for the Holidays

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:30:00 +0000

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW! Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! It doesn’t show...

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CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:46:00 +0000

PURE GOURMET: COGNAC PART II Victoria: I know this is going to sound crazy, but I don’t know if I’m even gonna be able to sleep, I’m so tired. Toddy: I’ll get you a cognac. Victoria: That’ll help...

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MACARONS PAIN D’ÉPICE (GINGERBREAD MACARONS)

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:34:00 +0000

WITH ORANGE CHOCOLATE COGNAC GANACHE : COGNAC PART I It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas…. The air is redolent with the warm, comforting scent of spices, cinnamon and ginger, nutmeg and...

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FRANGIPANE ÉCLAIRS

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:39:00 +0000

The Paradoxical Son Winter rolls in on a wave of misty white, the fog hanging heavy and cruel over the city. The icy chill penetrates every pore of one’s body and no matter what one does, no...

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CRANBERRY ORANGE PECAN BREAD WITH STREUSEL

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:34:00 +0000

HAPPY THANKSGIVING I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I do not celebrate Thanksgiving. No turkey, no sweet potato casserole smothered under a mountain of marshmallows. No cornbread stuffing...

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CROSTATA DI MARMELLATA (JAM TART)

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:56:00 +0000

MAKE A WISH The occasional tapping of wrench against iron, footsteps across the creaking, ancient parquet and the hum of distant voices are the only things to break the silence of a silent...

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APPLE DUMPLINGS & ORANGE MASCARPONE TARTLETS

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:05:00 +0000

STARTING OVER - BAD DREAMS AND GHOSTS A fleeting premonition. It spun before her eyes, a flash of knowledge. Should she say something, try to get him to slow down, warn him of impending…what?...

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RETURN TO MILAN

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:09:00 +0000

ROAD TRIP “Road Trip!” he yelled, fists pumping the air as his foot pressed down on the accelerator and the car hit the open highway. “Road Trip!” they echoed gleefully, thrilled to be on the road...

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FROM PLATE TO PAGE TUSCANY

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0000

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath Squeals of...

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CINNAMON STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:17:00 +0000

BAKE TOGETHER FOR FRIENDSHIP My suitcases lie open on the bedroom floor, socks strewn from one end of the bed to the other; piles of clean laundry grace my creamy carpet, begging for attention,...

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COCOA MACARONS FOR PINK OCTOBER

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:54:00 +0000

AND A THOUGHT… No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens Sometimes occasions come around that inspire the need to take action. We have each...

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CAFÉ LATTE RIZ AU LAIT

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:32:00 +0000

BEWITCHED A secret vice, stolen moments, the giddy covert activities of a schoolgirl usually so well behaved and never naughty. The second her back was turned, up I would steal, silently, invisible...

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INDIVIDUAL APPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES WITH SALTED BUTTER CARAMEL

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:50:00 +0000

HOMEBAKED WITH LOVE...AND CONVENIENCE When I was a girl way back when (way back in the Dark Ages, as my sons love to remind me), homemade snacks, baked with care and attention, started their very...

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PEA, MINT & FETA RISOTTO WITH ROASTED TOMATOES AND PARMESAN SCONES

noreply@blogger.com (Jamie) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:43:00 +0000

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY... Fall rain is somehow different from summer rain. June and July were unusually chilly, the days of bright sun alternating with dreary gray, intermittent with rain. We stayed...

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