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Winning Perfect Peach Pie recipe – North NJ

Winning Perfect Peach Pie recipe – North NJ

I love that a vegan peach pie won the blue ribbon – and $300 – for best North NJ entry in the recent “Perfect Peach Pie” contest run by the New Jersey Peach Promotion Council! More than 50 “perfect peach pies” were submitted to judges at ten farmers markets across the state, competing for two grand prizes … Continue reading →

Wildflour Bakery-Cafe

Wildflour Bakery-Cafe

I’d been meaning to try Wildflour Bakery-Café in Lawrenceville ever since they opened last year, but only last week did I finally get there. My friend and I used to go for pizza when we got together, but she’s gone gluten-free, so we needed a change of scene. She tried a gluten-free pizza at a … Continue reading →

Brown Butter In The Kitchen

Brown Butter In The Kitchen

My March 7 In The Kitchen column, about brown butter, did not go on the Packet website for some reason, so I reproduce it below. Brown Butter for Savory and Sweet There are culinary currents that run through many cultures, and it’s interesting to note how a certain kind of food or technique will reappear … Continue reading →

Fruitcake Recipes

Fruitcake Recipes

Here are the fruitcake recipes from the December issue of Packet Magazine. For some reason, the text of my article went  online without the two recipes that accompanied it in the print edition. The recipes here are baked in large round pans, but you could substitute loaf pans instead. You could also make small loaves, … Continue reading →

Mugolio Pine Syrup

Mugolio Pine Syrup

I had ordered some Mugolio pine syrup a while back, having first read about it on the excellent  CiaoChow Linda blog.  I finally broke it out the other evening, thinking of cool pine forests and, of course, the Häagen-Dazs vanilla bean gelato I had in my freezer. It was one of those “why did I wait so … Continue reading →

Special Occasion Desserts Redux

Special Occasion Desserts Redux

I wrote about special occasion desserts for the Packet recently, but a good chunk of the article and one of the recipes got cut due to a lack of space (they are looong recipes!).  So, here’s the rest of the article, and if you do want The Pink Cake recipe mentioned in it (From Julie Richard’s “Vintage … Continue reading →

Chocolate Orange Bread Pudding

Chocolate Orange Bread Pudding

As I finished preparing dinner one night, I had a sudden inspiration to use up the two egg knot rolls in my freezer. I needed the space! I’d bought the rolls, which are made with eggy brioche dough, with bread pudding in mind, so before I sat down to eat, I took them from the freezer … Continue reading →