I love both savory dishes and sweet desserts made with puff pastry. Adding flakiness and a crunch to any food is what puff pastry does. In other words, whatever it is added to is elevated to the highest level of “deliciousness”! Incorporating puff pastry into your cooking and baking repertoire is easy as well. You […]
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Every New Year’s Eve I have a few friends over for dinner. Life sure is hectic around this time of year, so this year I have decided to make a simple and delicious Bread Pudding for dessert. For those of you who have never had or made a bread pudding – pay attention. They are
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I am so glad to be back blogging with you. It’s been awhile, and I am sorry that it took me so long to get back to blogging. Much has happened since I last reached out to you. The first thing that has happened in my life is that my kitchen is FINALLY DONE. Without
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I must admit that my favorite cake of all time is my Chocolate Java Cake. That is probably why I included it in my new cookbook Baking with Success and put a big picture of it on the cover. What makes it so scrumptious is the texture of the cake which perfectly complements the creaminess of the
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After more than a year and a half of hard work, my new book “Baking with Success”, is finally out and available. I am so proud of it, because the recipes are quite special to me. I have inserted personal anecdotes in the introductions of each chapter about specific recipes and what they mean to me. Many recipes
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Every year around this time, I am hard at work planning my Summer Kids Baking Camp. I have been teaching these mini week long baking courses for kids in middle school to high school for over 16 years! Although it is lots of work and takes oodles of patience I LOVE IT! I meet all sorts of kids
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I am getting down to the wire now, emptying out all of my cabinets and drawers for the BIG re-do of my kitchen. It really isn’t pretty with bags and boxes all through out the house. Yet amidst all the turmoil, I am still finding a way to bake right up to the day of demolition. I
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My kitchen is 30 years old! You’ve seen it in my YouTube videos. There’s such atrocities as pink Formica counter tops and bright, peeling, white cabinets. What was I thinking way back when?! Well, my next baking video that I make for you will be in the newly renovated kitchen. Yes. I am getting a kitchen face lift. I know that I should
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I have been working on a new cookbook for the past year and a half! Thankfully, it is almost done. I am now going over the galleys for final changes before it goes into publication. I am very excited to see the fruits of my labor completed, and yet it’s scary because no matter how
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I wanted to give my students some experience cooking food for a large quantity of people, and they had their moment this past Wednesday, April 12th. They created a delicious and nutritious meal, and they sold it to the Sage faculty and students as a Take Out Meal that they called “Sage To Go”. It consisted of BBQ
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