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Blueberry Dutch Baby

Maybe you need to grow up outside of Seattle to appreciate dutch babies. I had my first from a recipe I'd found in a grocery store flier in Texas, where I grew up. They called it a Blueberry Puff Pancake, and it was a wild hit with my extended family anytime I would make it. Nobody had ever eaten anything like it where I came from, so it was a real brunch novelty.

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Guava Cream Cheese Cake

This little gem comes from my baking days in a nearby Seattle restaurant. This cake is closer to a pound cake than a cheesecake (as the name implies), and is better after being refrigerated (or frozen) then slices and toasted in a pan.

This is a moist, dense cake with a fragrance you won't know unless you grew up somewhere tropical. It's a subtle flavor - almost peachy - but then something else wafts by and you're clearly inhaling something new.

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Eggs Benedict with Potato Pancakes

Todd and I often cook at least one meal while we’re visiting his family, and this visit it was our post-July 4 Sunday brunch. We decided to do eggs benedict – but substitute potato pancakes for the English muffins. With 14 people in attendance, brunch wen off without a hitch – no curdled hollandaise. Todd’s cousin Jamie was good enough to poach the big batch of eggs while we kept the other pieces moving along for the big, hungry crowd.

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Mod Benedict

Okay, I cheated with this dish. I had something very similar to it while in school in Austin at Katz's Deli on 6th. It was called Eggs Laura, and it was my favorite interpretation of the classic eggs Benedict. It was poached eggs on potato pancakes with turkey pastrami - and served with horseradish cream. Nowadays Katz's calls that Eggs Broadway , and I haven't had it in probably 10 years, but I had a hankering for it this weekend. Instead of making the trip, I made the dish with piggy instead of turkey.

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