Food Blog

Chocolate raised donut. Bennison’s Bakery, Evanston. 
 

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Here’s a cappuccino from Pat’s Pizza.

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I should mention as a disclaimer that the Celtic Knot Pub is a client but I’d be derelict in my duty as a food blogger if I didn’t mention Debbie’s Cupcake of the Month. It’s a jelly doughnut cupcake - baked then deep fried just like a real doughnut, than filled with apricot jam. Truly […]

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Several years ago a publicist sent me Gale Gand’s Short and Sweet, a dessert cookbook with quick and easy recipes with 8 ingredients or less. As easy as that sounds, most of the recipes demand much more time than the 15, 30 or 45 minutes that the book is arranged by. And the ingredient lists […]

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On one of my Arizona driving adventures, we stopped at Tortilla Flat, and old stagecoach stop, turned tourist stop. There is a restaurant there, but the prickly pear ice cream is what I was there for. Prickly pear tastes like watermelon with touches of pear and berry.

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Here’s a fairly simple recipe that doesn’t take much more effort than making pancakes, but appears much fancier. I used this recipe for basic crepes which uses an egg and an egg yolk. I’m not sure what the difference would be between this and a whole egg crepe recipe, but these turned out soft and […]

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A friend brought over a Belgian Waffle maker, so of course we had to make some. We used this waffle recipe, with the addition of a teaspoon of baking powder for some rise. I would never have attempted this sort of thing without my new Cuisinart hand mixer (thanks Mom!). Beating egg whites into peaks […]

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Last week a restaurant client of mine needed an emergency ad done. As I put one together on her bar with my laptop, she remarked how ‘clever’ I was that I could do so . Then she asked “but can you make a scone?” as she bit into one she had made for her High […]

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Here’s a pretty quick, but special breakfast. I ground the cardamom seed in my coffee grinder. I don’t mind a little of that in my coffee later.
2/3 cup flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
3 T butter, room temperature
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cardamon, ground
Whip the eggs, butter and milk together to get some […]

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Speaking of cheesesteak, by some amazing stroke of fortune, I had a couple of them fall in my lap last night. These were the real thing, delivered directly from Philly. There was no way I was stopping to take pictures.
Hey, I like Philly’s Best, they’re the closest thing you can get here and they deliver […]

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