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Chocolate and Walnut Strudel – Daring Bakers

The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers. In my mid teens I escaped the boring farm life and headed to the big [...]

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(unorthodox) Muhammara

In my estimation dips range from the divine to the disgusting. Memories of bright pink taramasalata, fake chemical tasting french onion and heavy, tasteless hummous turned me off dips for a terribly long time A recent visit to the wonderful Almond Bar switched it all around. A luscious trio of dips was memorable, and so [...]

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Muffins

Today is muffin Sunday. The last few weeks I have been terribly overindulgent, so to curb that tide I stayed in today and instead of making rich, sweet cupcakes I made (up) some muffins. Pistachio, cardamom and quince paste seemed like a good idea seeings as F. spent heaps of time last night organising the [...]

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