Tag: Nut-free baking
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Quick, Single-Batch Blueberry Jam
Classically addictive. Wild blueberries, with hints of vanilla & cinnamon. Buy blueberries in season if you can and freeze them – almost all blueberry desserts work just as well with frozen fruit and this jam does, too. Read more
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Seville Orange Marmalade
Seville oranges have a high pectic content which makes these preserves have a good set – AKA it isn’t runny. Now, not everyone likes marmalade – it’s deceptively pretty and a bit bitter. I like to keep a few pots of it around to slather on thick toast or to mix with Greek yogurt and… Read more
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Semi-Sweet Breakfast Loaf with Carrots and Zucchini & A Threeway
I’m the kind of baker who likes the load a bunch of foodstuffs in a bowl and see what happens. This is the School of Anti-Baking. Sometimes this results in oven explosions or brownies that resemble moose turds but most of the time I have enough of the science down to have it work. “What’re… Read more
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Cottage Blueberry Crumb Cake & Broken Hearts
My 12-year-old holds a heart in his hands. “Do you like the blue?” he asks. We’re in Venice, a place known for glass beads and tiny fragile animals. I nod. Jamie has always associated me with blue as he knows it’s my favorite color. “Who is the necklace for?” Jamie’s dad asks him and Jamie… Read more
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Italian Plum Tart (Crostata alla Confettura di Prugne) & Finding Treasures
This is a classic southern Italian dessert, though my favorite time to eat this is in the morning. I especially like the crisp pastry and the tart plum when we’re down to the last few slices and the very last one is a bit stale, and thus crunchy and I can peck at the crumbs… Read more
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Strawberry Upside Down Cake & Old Friends
The email arrives as these things do, out of the blue for the one on the receiving end. I read, try and take it in. Our friendship breakup eight years ago was a source of pain and, moreover, left me confounded. Yes, I’d known we were flailing, growing apart – me with kids, she on… Read more
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Double Apricot Tart (wheat-free, nut-free, gluten-free) & Friendship
By now maybe you know that my family had a rough year [known as The Year of the Shit]. I (still) won’t go into too many details but will share that TYOTS involved death, despair, and something really really bad happening to one of my kids. I had a hard time reaching out. Like many… Read more
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Nut-free Jam Tart & Emma’s Pantry Launch
Tonight is Prosecco & Preserves, the launch party for Emma’s Pantry. And to celebrate, I’m eating Nut Free Jam Tart and exploiting my collection of antique canning jars. Stop by or order yours today (the jams and granola…the jars are mine). Anytime Granola is addictive and healthy AND nut-free! Read more