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My go-to brownie recipe is adapted from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book but using the Alton Brown baking method (I find his recipe a bit too fudgy)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2/3 cup flour

1/2 cup cocoa (I like Hershey's Special Dark)

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

(1/2 teaspoon espresso powder, if you want)

Optional 1/2 cup nuts or chocolate chips

Mix wet ingredients, then slowly add dry ingredients. If adding nuts or other extras, fold them in last. Use a greased square pan - adding parchment paper will allow you to lift them out to slice them easier.

Bake at 300 degrees for 15 minutes, remove and let rest for 15 minutes, then return to oven to bake another 30 minutes or until internal temperature of 195 degrees.

Let cool 5-10 minutes before slicing.

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A recipe for you, Weihnachten cookies!

Traditional German spice cookies: Pfeffernusse

¼ cup molasses

1 ¼ cup honey

¼ cup butter

1 egg

4 cups flour

2 tablespoonfuls cocoa powder (unsweetened)

¼ teaspoonful anise

½ teaspoonful ginger

½ teaspoonful cinnamon

¼ teaspoonful ground cloves

¼ teaspoonful salt

½ teaspoonful nutmeg

¼ teaspoonful pepper

¼ teaspoonful allspice

Melt molasses, honey, and butter over low heat until well mixed. Remove from heat and cool. Add egg and anise. Sift together dry ingredients, then slowly add to liquid mixture. Chill until stiff. Roll into small balls about the size of walnuts.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes. You can roll them in powdered sugar, but I find that too messy.

I know a lot of people who don’t like these, but I do - they’re very gingerbread-like.

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I've made this swedish kladdkaka recipe a few times and it is a winner! Extremely simple to put together and just like the best parts of brownies - gooey, oozy center and crunchy edge! I like it best using Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa... and I add a 1/2 teaspoon of instant espresso powder. If you can't find dark cocoa, but want dark flavor, try increasing the espresso powder to a full teaspoon.

Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream or just sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve right out of the oven for that perfect fudgy ooze from the center!

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I've made this cookie recipe a few times replacing the nuts with crushed cornflakes and they're great!

It usually makes about 4 inch-sized rolls, and I recommend only baking a roll at a time, as you need them, so they're never stale!

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Potato salad

8-10 large red potatoes

1 medium onion, diced

4-6 stalks of celery, diced

8-10 hard boiled eggs

1/2 cup mayo (roughly)

1/4 cup white vinegar (roughly)

1/2 teaspoon dry mustard

1/2 teaspoon paprika (whichever type you prefer - I have been using Hungarian)

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

These measurements are only rough and adjustable based on taste. The mayo and vinegar I don't usually measure... I add them based on wetness of the salad.

The salad is best prepared the night before serving.

Cut potatoes into about 1 inch chunks and steam. While still warm, toss in about half the vinegar and let cool, continuing to toss every so often.

After potatoes are cool, add onion, celery, and eggs. Add seasonings. Mix in vinegar and mayo in portions until salad is thoroughly mixed and wet/saucy.

Let rest and meld, preferably overnight.

You may want to add a few spoonfuls of mayo before serving, to re-moisten the salad.

I often reserve a couple eggs to spread over the top before serving. A little paprika sprinkled over the top for color looks nice too.

If you are adventurous, you can add other spices: a little cayenne or chili powder for spice, dill if you like that flavor, etc.

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"I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was ‘mamaliga’, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call ‘impletata’” -'Dracula,' Bram Stoker

I made tonight Vinete Umplute, the dish I believe inspired Jonathan Harker's above praise.

The recipe I translated from

and altered slightly for the ingredients available to me and somewhat to taste.

3 large eggplants

1 whole onion, diced

2 bell peppers, diced

1 grated carrot

4 diced fresh tomatoes

6 cloves of garlic (at least)

1 lb ground meat (I used pork)

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons thyme or marjoram

1 teaspoon pepper (to taste)

~3/4 cups cheese (I mixed parmesan and mozzarella)

Plenty of olive oil

Halve the eggplants and scoop out insides. Salt the resulting boats; dice eggplant insides.

Saute onion, bell peppers, and carrot in oil until onion is soft. Add a 1/2 cup water and simmer about 5 minutes.

Add meat and cook until just browned.

Add tomatoes, eggplant, garlic and herbs, salt, and pepper. Simmer 10-15 minutes (eggplant should reduce volume significantly).

Drain and rinse eggplant shells and pat dry. Fill with filling and sprinkle with cheese. Cover with foil and bake at 400° F for 45-50 minutes; remove foil and bake another 10-15 minutes.

Sprinkle with parsley if you like and serve!

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Chocolate ganache tarts

Crust

1/2 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup flour

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1/4 tsp salt

(optional 1/2 tsp espresso powder)

Ganache

1 can coconut milk

about 16 oz. chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla

(optional 1-2 tsp other flavoring or alcohol)

(optional sea salt to sprinkle on top)

Heat oven to 325° F.

Mix crust ingredients together thoroughly and push into molds of choice - I use mini muffin tins, but you can make whatever size tart you like, even one big one if you like.

Prick bottoms with a fork and bake for 7-10 minutes depending on size of tarts.

Heat coconut milk to boiling. Mix in chocolate chips until smooth. Add vanilla and optional flavoring. Pour into crust.

Chill until set. Keep chilled until serving. Optionally, sprinkle with salt before serving.

Make sure to use coconut milk and not cream - the cream has too much fat which will separate out.

Some nice flavorings you can add: amaretto, bourbon, orange extract, peppermint extract...

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I made this last night without the white chocolate and with fresh cranberries - very tasty!

Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Zucchini Bread

3 eggs

1/2 c. sour cream

1/2 c. canola or vegetable oil

1 1/2 c. sugar

1 3/4 c. grated zucchini

1/4 c. orange juice

2 T. orange zest

1 t. vanilla

1/2 t. salt

1 t. baking soda

1/4 t. baking powder

3 c. flour

1 1/2 c. craisins

1 1/2 c. white chocolate chips

Mix

all of the ingredients together well. Put into 2 greased and floured bread

pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until tests done. Remove from oven, let rest for 10 minutes and then remove from pan.

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Pulled pork/Carnitas adapted from America’s Test Kitchen.

3 ½ pounds pork butt cut into 2 inch cubes

1 orange, halved and juiced

1 onion, quartered

cumin

salt

pepper

bay leaves

dried oregano

hot sauce

2 bottles of beer

lime juice

Throw everything in a dutch oven. Yes, both the orange juice and the skin (DO NOT add the glass bottles of beer). The liquid should just be below the level of the pork chunks.

Boil this in the oven at 300 degrees for a couple hours, stirring occasionally until the meat starts to fall apart (you could maybe do this in a slow cooker or instant pot, but I haven't tried this).

Pull all the solids out of the liquid (keep the meat and the onions) and simmer the liquid on the stove until it’s reduced and syrupy.

Tear up the pork and spread it on a baking tray and pour the syrup on it and broil for like 8 minutes or until it’s crispy.

Serve with tortillas, salsa, guacamole, and maybe a crumbly Mexican cheese. (I recommend you also use the onions liberally bc they are also delicious as hell). This would also work really nice in a torta or a cubano!

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Trying to use up fading apples... I thought maybe a quick pickle would work well! Here's the recipe I tried - they are super tasty and I can't stop eating them:

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If y'all are interested in ancient grains, I like to order from this local (to me) mill: Bluebird Grain Farms

They're having a 15% off sale right now, code Fall15 - check it out! I just stocked up on emmer, einkorn, and rye flours myself. They ship pretty fast, too!

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This is a new favorite for our family... they don't last long!

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This is a quick and tasty use for apples - or if you have an unexpected guest!

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A list of some of my go-to cookie recipes:

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a summer cookie for you

Lemon Rosemary White Chocolate Chip

2/3 c white sugar

2/3 c brown sugar

2/3 c softened butter (salted or unsalted - I’ve never noticed a difference)

2/3 c shortening (I like Crisco bars. I usually use plain, but butter flavor is ok, too)

2 eggs

4 t lemon extract

1 t baking soda

1 t salt

3 c flour

roughly 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, minced

12 oz (1 bag) white chocolate chips

Blend sugars, butter, and shortening together until fluffy, then add eggs and lemon extract. When fully mixed, add soda, salt, and flour (1 cup at a time). Fold in minced rosemary and chocolate chips.

Bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees, or until edges are golden. (I usually make small cookies at 8 minutes. If you’re making larger cookies, your cookies may take longer.)

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