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Tea-Soaked Plums with Lemon Zest

Preparing some Earl Grey tea-soaked dried plums with lemon zest to use in prune buns from a Fergus Henderson cookbook. 2 weeks to go!

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Poolish Ciabatta

I cleaned off my bread table this morning for a reunion with some flour, yeast and water. It's hard for me to believe I've been schooled in bread - albeit informally and for only a few months - because my brain is full of cobwebs about some of the processes. This is one of those things you have to do often to keep your technique good.

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Biscuits and Gravy

I made biscuits and gravy for years - every weekend religiously, along with a pot of coffee from my Pyrex percolator (the science experiment of coffee makers). I know the recipe for both by heart, and I hadn't made them for years for a lot of different reasons. After recounting my recipe last night at a birthday party, Todd suggested I make them once again - and instead of nasty old Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage, I made them with bacon from our piggy.

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Kitchen Cabinet Cookies

This is a recipe from the White Dog Cafe Cookbook. I had incorrectly referred to them as Kitchen Sink Cookies - as evidenced by everything in them…

I leave out the chocolate chips and walnuts, and use large flake unsweetened coconut (you can find this in the bulk section sometimes). They're plenty sweet as is, and these are a little less complicated. I also use Mexican vanilla and really strong coffee instead of the instant coffee.

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