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    Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chunks and Coconut Drizzle

    Coconut. Chocolate. Drizzle. Those three words of sweet promise grabbed you by the tastebuds and pulled you in – right? They did for me as I’ve had my eye on this recipe culled from Bon Appetit’s January ’10 issue since the end of December and I’m not interested in protracting the temptation one moment longer.

    Black Tea Prune and Walnut Bread

    This gently sweetened, dense and moist quick bread was a perfect vehicle for the cultured butter I made last week. Inspired by a recipe for Date and Walnut Bread found in Patricia Well’s book Vegetable Harvest, I used what was in my cupboard swapping  plump prunes for  the dates. Giving the prunes a  pre-soak in [...]

    Building a Better Bagel?

    As much as I enjoy a good bagel (and the Cleveland area happens to blessed with a mecca for outstanding bagels in Bialy’s of University Heights), nothing else I eat can lay in my belly and leave me in a state of total lethargy like one of those round treats of crusty and chewy satisfaction. [...]