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A champagne toast with a twist

Editor's note: For our last week at Food Lush, I've asked the writers to share both a favorite post by another writer, from over the last three years, and a favorite post of their own. You'll see these posts linked to at the top of their new post for the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at Food Lush

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Brownie, salted caramel, and pretzel sundaes

by Katie Back when my husband and I used to go out for dinner a lot more often than we do now, one of our standby places, particularly for dessert, was a great spot called Hot Chocolate. Mindy Segal, the proprietor, is a pastry chef extraordinare, so the desserts are... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Food Lush

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The best dishwaster detergent: Method pods

By Katie Our kitchen (our whole house, really,) was outfitted by the previous owners in a style I like to call “looks high end, performs like crap.” This applies to our refrigerator, our (now-replaced) oven, our washer/dryer, and most especially our dishwasher. Yes, technically it “washed” dishes, but you could... Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2013 at Food Lush

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Dorie Greenspan's lentils

by Katie As a New Year's resolution of sorts, I have decided to try to resist buying new cookbooks in 2013. That does not stop me from checking them out of the library, and my first library acquisition of the year was Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table. This book... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2013 at Food Lush

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Homemade cookie giveaway!

by Katie Somewhat unintentionally, I have really turned this month into a season-o-cookies, subjecting you to posts about making your own caramel, and cookie cookbooks, and cookie packaging methods. So I thought it was only fair to reward a reader for putting up with all that cookie blather by giving... Continue reading

Posted Dec 17, 2012 at Food Lush

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Making salted caramels at home: Tips, tricks, and hard-won lessons

by Katie So! Those of you who know me from Twitter have already heard me whine about my weekend, wherein I made FOUR BATCHES of caramels that came out hard as rocks, and it wasn't until the fifth time that I finally got it right, and even then they were... Continue reading

Posted Dec 13, 2012 at Food Lush

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Gift idea for a young baker: Rose's Christmas Cookies Cookbook

In the late 1980s, when I was 11, my grandmother gave me this book for Christmas: This is Rose's Christmas Cookies cookbook, and it was the first cookbook I ever had. My grandmother inscribed it with a message that she hoped I would use it for years of Christmas cookie... Continue reading

Posted Dec 4, 2012 at Food Lush

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Containers for holiday cookie gifting

by Katie Every year at the holidays I buy pounds of butter and sugar and spend a weekend baking a half-dozen different kinds of cookies. And every year, I drag myself to JoAnn and Michaels and Target and the grocery store, looking for cute holiday-ish containers in which to deliver... Continue reading

Posted Nov 27, 2012 at Food Lush

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Herbsaint: the key to New Orleans-style cocktails

by Katie Like many other Food Lush and Style Lush writers, I was fortunate enough to spend the past weekend hanging out in New Orleans. And one of my favorite things to do in New Orleans is drink. Wait. That sounds bad. Well whatever, it's true. If you can see... Continue reading

Posted Nov 13, 2012 at Food Lush

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Tuscany Pumpkin Pasta Sauce

by Katie I rarely get to Whole Foods, as it’s a little out of the way (and out of the budget) but when I do get there, I enjoy browsing the aisles checking out the interesting things. (Perhaps it’s good I don’t get there often- I can’t seem to get... Continue reading

Posted Nov 6, 2012 at Food Lush

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Unorthodox chili ingredients

by Katie photo from: me Everyone has their favorite chili, but some people can be downright fanatical about it. The purists (beef only! only chili powder! get off my lawn!) scoff at the adventurers (ground turkey! chopped peppers! add some cumin!). Because I did not grow up with a family... Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2012 at Food Lush

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Easy polenta without stirring (!)

by Katie I love polenta. It makes an excellent base/side for all kinds of dishes – ratatouille, roasted vegetables, meats of all sorts – and it’s a whole grain, to boot. But until recently, I rarely made polenta on a weeknight because oh, the stirring. ALL THE STIRRING. For those... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2012 at Food Lush

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Lemon tahini dressing

by Katie We do a lot of steamed vegetable + tofu variations in our house- it's a quick healthy dinner, and an easy standby. Usually we go with some version of a peanut sauce or General Tsao's, but last week I was craving something different. I don't know why I... Continue reading

Posted Oct 16, 2012 at Food Lush

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Steel Cut Oats in the Crock Pot

By Katie At the risk of giving foodlush readers the impression that I only ever cook in my crock pot anymore, I'd like to tell you about another recent slow cooker discovery that's blowing my mind: slow cooked steel cut oats. I LOVE steel cut oatmeal, but its long cooking... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2012 at Food Lush

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Slow cooker applesauce

by Katie Applesauce is not very difficult to make, but it can be a little hands on- the peeling, the chopping, the stirring at the stove. My parents gave us dozens and dozens of apples from their backyard tree, and I knew I wanted to make applesauce, but didn't particularly... Continue reading

Posted Oct 2, 2012 at Food Lush

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Homemade multigrain sandwich bread

by Katie I used to be really intimidated by homemade bread. Still am, sometimes. But Cooks Illustrated has never steered me wrong. Their recipes are always impeccable, and perfectly explained so that they feel impossible to screw up. So when they said this sandwich bread was easy, and soft, and... Continue reading

Posted Sep 25, 2012 at Food Lush

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The best tortillas: shop around (within your supermarket!)

by Katie Today, I would like to talk about the mysterious way normal supermarkets handle tortillas. You would think that all the tortillas a supermarket had to offer would be found in one place. In my experience, you would be dead wrong. (Picture from: quichelorraineblog.blogspot.com) In our local grocery store,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2012 at Food Lush

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Swedish dish cloths

By Katie A few weeks ago I was strolling through a little resort town in southwest Michigan with some friends, poking in and out of gift shops, when we encountered a bin full of something labelled "Swedish Dishcloths." They sheets, about 6 inches by 8 inches, were stiff and looked... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2012 at Food Lush

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Polder Kitchen Timer

by Katie About a year ago, our oven (which I hated) broke down. The repair guy told us it would cost about $800 to fix, because the repair involved replacing not one but two computers inside the oven. TWO. COMPUTERS. It is an OVEN, not a ROCKET. Since we had... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2012 at Food Lush

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Grilled peaches

by Katie After Sara recommended it a few weeks ago on Food Lush, I bought Dinner: A Love Story. While I still haven't made my way through all of it, the technique below alone was worth the price of admission. Next to her recipe for bourbon-glazed grilled pork tenderloin (which... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2012 at Food Lush

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Uses for garden basil part 3: basil gimlet

by Katie Well, Elissa from last week's post is prescient: today, I want to talk about one of my new favorite uses for the basil tree that's taking over my backyard: basil cocktails. Our basil plant (husband shown for scale) Basil has a nice green herbal note, which in my... Continue reading

Posted Aug 21, 2012 at Food Lush

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Uses for garden basil part 2: sweet basil ice cream

by Katie Last week, I talked about very green pasta salad, the first in a series of posts about how I’m trying to find uses for the huge basil bush that is taking over my yard. Today we go a little further afield, away from “comfortable” and into “unusual:” basil... Continue reading

Posted Aug 14, 2012 at Food Lush

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Uses for garden basil part 1: very green pasta salad

by Katie For the first time this year, we planted a small vegetable and herb garden. While there have been some notable failures (ahem, zucchini) our basil plant has taken off like crazy, and is now waist high. I like pesto and caprese salads as much as the next girl,... Continue reading

Posted Aug 7, 2012 at Food Lush

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Tommee Tippee Food Pots

by Katie We have just returned from a trip to Canada with our 16 month old daughter. It was, by my count, her 6th major plane trip in her short life, and I was reminded again of the first rule of air travel with a toddler: there is no such... Continue reading

Posted Jul 31, 2012 at Food Lush

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Autumn Wheat: my favorite borning grown up cereal

by Katie I love breakfast and brunch- eggs, waffles, breakfast burritos, oatmeal pancakes, bacon- I like it all. But as much as I enjoy variety, for me, weekday breakfast is a matter of routine. If I have to think about what I’m going to eat/make, I end up not eating.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 24, 2012 at Food Lush

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