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Viennese striesel

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Viennese striesel a plaited, glazed fruited buttery brioche-style bread suggested by Katie of Thyme for Cooking for the Bread Baking Babes group (I’m just baking along for the ride as it looked gorgeous!). As I’m gathering my thoughts, equipment and baking mojo for the challenge of panettone, this seemed like a good intermediate step and [...]

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Date and oat slice: a kiteboarder-approved, homemade energy bar

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It has proved a lovely, lovely thing to cook some of my childhood favourites for Mr. R&R, and I’ve also (with not a little trepidation) cooked some of his remembered dishes from growing up (see my italian meatloaf, or polpettone). I suppose it’s a way of cementing our two histories together, of saying that yes, [...]

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Taralli – brutish bagel biscuits from Puglia

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As you can see from the picture, they’re not exactly delicate, pretty morsels. My homemade version of these pugliese biscuits are dumpy and lumpy, browned from baking. Indeed, when I cooked them yesterday evening, they seemed to lurk menacingly in the oven, as if saying “Just wait ’til I get crispy, sunshine…”. But I have [...]

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Abe’s extremely fruity blueberry streusel muffins

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I’ve recently started to play golf, or more accurately to take lessons. I’ve been told golf is the most technical sport there is, that it’s a very “deep” game, that once one starts it’s impossible to stop… All I know is that my pro annoyingly never seems to perspire, even under the Nassau midday sun, [...]

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