It’s the last day of the year, and with that, my final installment in the Italian Dessert Challenge. Your suggestions have been outstanding—I’ve stretched my baking brain to new limits and it’s only getting better from here. I think it’s fitting to end the year on shortbread cookies (thanks for the suggestion, Amanda!). Because in [...]
Archive | December, 2010
Baking’s Three-Chord Song: Shortbread Cookies
Posted on Friday, December 31, 2010.
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Happy Snowed-in Holidays!
Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2010.
Happy snowed-in holidays! I’m house-bound at my in-laws’ enjoying the bliss of having nothing to do for a few rare days. I hope everyone’s having a grand week! Our Christmas Eve consisted of the customary seven-fish dinner, complete with shrimp, calamari, baccala, clams, lobster, scallops, and octopus salad. Rice balls and a few other goodies [...]
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Italian Dessert Challenge Recipe # 2 – Chocolate Lace Cookies
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2010.
I really have to thank you guys for the Italian dessert suggestions. You’re helping me master things I love that I never thought I’d have the wherewithal to make. Exhibit 1: Gelato. Exhibit 2: My friend Daniel Sheehan‘s request for, and I quote, “that Italian cookie with a center like caramel and rice crispies with [...]
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Italian Dessert Challenge Recipe # 1– Espresso Gelato (without an ice cream maker)
Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
Your Italian dessert requests have been great, everyone! Feel free to keep them coming—I’m still cooking/baking from the list until next week. The first request that really got me thinking was gelato, mostly because I had *no* idea how to make it. I also don’t have an ice cream maker, and have no intenions of [...]
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The Italian Dessert Challenge—Get in Your Request!
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010.
You may have noticed that December has been an Italian dessert extravaganza on Pomato Revival so far. I’m dedicating the month to sweets, and just in time for Christmas, I’m taking requests! Tell me in the comments here what Italian desserts you’d like to see me make. I’m up for anything—cookies, pastries, breads, cakes, [...]
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Time to Make the Cannoli
Posted on Thursday, December 9, 2010.
A couple of years ago Joe, Joey, Katherine, and I took a little trip to Sicily. We stayed with my mom’s sister, Zia Antonia, and our cousins Giovanna and Maria, with a whirl of cousins and cousins’ cousins zipping around us. We ate. A lot. As Katherine once put it, “Oh, we ate. At gunpoint.” [...]
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A Birthday Pick-Me-Up (Tiramisu)
Posted on Friday, December 3, 2010.
It’s my birthday! To celebrate, I’m sharing my favorite birthday cake recipe with you. It’s my mom’s famous tiramisu. She’s made this for me every year since…I don’t know when. My world must have just been dark until this cake showed up. It’s truly amazing, the sort of thing you wait for all year, [...]
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