Apr 24
An Ode to Fresh Banana Cake
When I was a little girl, a chocolate sheet cake or a lemon meringue pie were almost always on the kitchen counter. My mom liked sweets, and she loved to bake. Very rarely she would buy dessert, but one of the rare exceptions was frozen Sara Lee banana cake. I had pretty much forgotten this [...]
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Feb 26
Easy Mexican Lasagna
My sweet youngest child is now a ravenous, meat-craving, teenage boy. I remember people warning me that this day would come. And while John isn’t the guy who pours an entire box of cereal into a mixing bowl for breakfast, he could eat steak 24/7. And hamburgers. And he questions why I would ever put [...]
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Feb 11
My Favorite Flourless Chocolate Cake
Don’t you love the names of chocolate cake around Valentine’s Day? Chocolate seduction, temptation, ecstasy… As if good dark chocolate, combined with butter, eggs, and sugar needed a provocative title. The recipe I share today is less tabloid and more French gourmet. I call it simply a Flourless Chocolate Cake, and it has been a [...]
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Dec 17
Southern Caramel Cake with Peach Conserve
I spent 20 years in Georgia, first in college at the University of Georgia, and then in Atlanta as food editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Along the way I met wonderful people and picked up some of my favorite recipes. Gwen Bentley and her husband, the late Jimmy Bentley, were friends of mine in Atlanta. [...]
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Nov 20
Fresh Cranberry Tart
It is two days before Thanksgiving and I am knocking out those little recipes like cranberry sauce that are easy to prepare ahead of time and chill. But I am careful not to use all the cranberries, saving two cups for my cranberry tart. A recipe shared with me a few years back by a [...]
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Unbelievably Gluten-Free
Unbelievably gluten-free pizza! Unbelievably gluten-free fried chicken! Unbelievably gluten-free pasta! Plus breads, dumplings, fritters, pies, cakes, puddings, and more.
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Anne’s Deep Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
Chocolate cake - warm fudgy layers topped with a creamy frosting - this is the cake I love most of all.
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