Posts By: Cathy Barrow

A Daring Attempt to Make Tiramisu!

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a perfect slice of tiramisu homemade ladyfingers! Another month and another Daring Baker’s Challenge. You might remember last month’s challenge, when I made gluten free graham crackers and nainamo bars. This month was more in my wheelhouse. Tiramisu. From scratch. Oh, I’ve made tiramisu a few times. Traditional with espresso and mascarpone. Not so traditional… Read more »

Still Eating In – Days Three & Four

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We’re continuing to eat in for the week, along with so many others (check the hashtag #eatin on Twitter.) It’s been lots of fun for me, I’ve been busy cooking all sorts of things, testing out recipes. For day three’s dinner, I made a Peruvian style roast chicken. I was inspired to get this chicken… Read more »

Day Two: Week of Eating In

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It was a day of catching up on pantry basics here. I put up a pint plus of duxelles using gorgeous organic cremini, button and shitake mushrooms from our CSA. The recipe is Eugenia Bones‘ – saute diced mushrooms in olive oil with shallots until dry, add some wine or cognac and cook it off,… Read more »

Day One: Week of Eating In

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Starting the Huffington Post’s Week of Eating In today, here are some decisions I made.For the rest of the Week,All food we eat will be cooked in my kitchen.No restaurants.No processed foods (naturally.)Use what’s in the refrigerator, pantry and freezer to round out the meals. After all, I spent weeks last summer “putting up” and… Read more »

Went on Vacation and My Attitude’s Adjusted

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carnival dancers I’ve been away. Really away. I have thought about writing. Even started a few posts, but I just couldn’t get all the ducks in a row until right now. Many things have happened. It snowed. It snowed again. I had a birthday. I made three cakes and invited the kids in the ‘hood… Read more »

White, Wheat or Rye? Jim Lahey’s No Knead Bread

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Everyone’s talking about no-knead bread. It must have been one of the most gifted holiday cookbooks, according to the abundance of blog posts about the brilliance of this bread. Let me just chime in. This is the tastiest, easiest, most dependable bread I’ve ever made.Since we first met, Dennis has talked about his grandmother’s bread…. Read more »

How Daring Am I? Nanaimo Bars

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When January 1st rolled around, I decided I would join the Daring Bakers for 2010. The monthly recipe challenges seemed like a great idea. I’d get to try new recipes. Writing about the challenges would help feed the hungry blog monster. And I love the idea of cooking essentially the same thing at the sametime… Read more »