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dark chocolate covered cashew turtle cheesecake

August 8, 2011

I made this cake as part of the “cheesecake challenge” suggested by the ever-stylish Heavenly. It is based on a recipe by Yotam Ottolengi for caramel and macadamia cheesecake. H had a slice of this luscious dessert at Ottolengi’s restaurant in London and was apparently so captivated, that she couldn’t wait to try it at [...]

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basbousa: semolina almond cake

July 8, 2011

This is another great recipe from Tess Mallos’ North African Cooking. We served it after the mouthwatering broiled corvina in charmoula marinade, based on a recipe from the same book, the day our super good friend, Kristen, came into town. A meal with guests wouldn’t be complete without dessert, so this adaptation of basbousa, a [...]

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Angie’s delicious rhubarb streusel cake

May 9, 2011

I fell in love with Angie’s recipe for rhubarb streusel cake as soon as I read it. Angie’s Recipes is an incredible blog. So often her dishes look amazing. This is the first one that I have attempted but I intend to try more soon. In hers, the ingredients were all by weight. I always [...]

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cassava purée AKA purê de mandioca

May 5, 2011

As I mentioned already, Saveur and The Economist magazine published some exciting articles about cassava last February. They say that it is a staple in Africa. I grew up eating cassava, or mandioca as it is called in Portuguese. Where I’m from it was more widely available than its traditional substitute, potato. For us it [...]

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heartache tagliatelle custard

March 14, 2011

This recipe is part of a cooperative “cook-off” with my darling blogger friend, Heavenly, from donuts to delirium, and Christina, from Buenos Aires to Paris. I’ve been wildly excited about cooking with these two and remain thrilled to have been included. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out their cool blogs soon and [...]

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seafood vegetable nabe

January 7, 2011

Nabe (sometimes called nabemono) is a brothy soup made with a hodgepodge of vegetables, seafood and meat that is prepared with all of the aforementioned items combined into endless “weirdcombinations.” If you have not tried classic nabes such as Oden, Sukiaki, Shabu-Shabu or Chanko Nabe you are definitely missing out! They are all delicious and [...]

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bolo de maracujá or passion fruit cake

October 27, 2010

My friend Sandy recently gave me a big bag of fresh passion fruit she grows in her own backyard in the Silicon Valley. She’s so lucky to be able to produce this quintessential tropical fruit at home. It is such a treat! I don’t often see them for sale. This time she was extra generous, [...]

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Brazilian creamy sweet yellow corn cake

October 11, 2010

Steven is in doubt whether this dish really is a corn cake rather than a corn soufflé or a corn flan. To me, if you’re even debating this absurd point, then the cake is already a huge success. Once again, I tried to reproduce another of my mother’s recipes. As I remember, her cake was [...]

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orange cling peach oatmeal cobbler

September 10, 2010

In hindsight, I think that the peach tree we had in our backyard when I was a kid had to have been an Orange Cling. The fruit were never as big as these ones I got the other day at the Alemany farmers market. Perhaps they’re “super-sized” to look more attractive? Whatever the reason, these [...]

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sweet potato ginger bread

August 13, 2010

I’m getting more engrossed in Stephan Pyles’ The New Texas Cuisine. This recipe comes directly from the book. He calls for pumpkin but recommends sweet potatoes as an alternative if pumpkin isn’t in season. I made this quick bread following the directions but ran into some problems. I think that I ended up with too [...]

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