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An Easter dessert of a golden layer cake with a whipped milk chocolate ganache frosting and crushed mini eggs for garnish. #cake #desserts

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Baking a little American history here for ya folks. These are Joe Froggers, a cookie from Marblehead Mass Tavern owners Joe and Lucretia Brown. Joe was a free African-American Revolutionary war veteran. The stick of butter is there for scale. These are big cookies. Flavoured with molasses, rum, and salt water. Good stuff. #cookies #joefroggers

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It became…Pasta Carbonara with peas. #pasta #pastacarbonara

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New feature: guess what’s for dinner. What will this be?

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A house favourite, a cumin pan-seared chicken breast on a bed of black beans, corn, tomato, and avocado. #chicken

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Trying out a new fish recipe for fish & chips. A couple minor kinks to tweak but overall pretty good. The batter is an IPA batter.

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Working a holiday-inspired shepherd’s pie for dinner. #shepherdspie

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It’s stollen time! The first is a more unusual Garmischer Nusßstollen and the second is your typical stollen. The Garmischer one is from the DEC 1979 Cusine magazine.

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Since they have to age for a while, kicking off the holiday baking season with a couple Stollens, these have an almond filling.

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A butternut Squash soup with a drizzle of olive oil infused with pine nuts, crushed red pepper, and rosemary and a glass of Selbach Riesling. A nice meal for a cold autumn night. Oh and the owl is back hooting outside right now. Winter is coming. #squash #squashsoup

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I can’t believe I forgot to post this after the German dinner: a German dessert. Gedekter Apfelkuchen. So good this time of year when the good baking apples are in season. #gedekterapfelkuchen

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Sort of a German 🇩🇪 dinner night tonight. Didn’t have time for the Spätzle but did do the Schnitzel and some Rotkohl (red cabbage) from an old Austrian cookbook I have from 1960. Look a little later for the dessert post. That’s definitely German. #schitzel #schnitzeltag

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A seasonal riff on the cinnamon bun for this autumn Sunday: pumpkin spice cinnamon buns with maple cream cheese icing/frosting. The maple is subtle too so it doesn’t fight with the pumpkin spice. #pumpkinspice #cinnamonbuns #cinnamonbun

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It’s Japanese curry night! #curry

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Pizza night! This one has prosciutto, artichoke hearts, and hand-picked capers. The hand-picked ones are larger giving you a bigger caper-punch. #pizza

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Beats a drone show every time-the Aurora Borealis over New England right now. A but cloudy here tonight but maybe I’ll get to see the comet too.

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If you’re waiting at the microwave tomorrow at lunch and smell something good, it’s probably me heating up some leftovers from this awesome tray bake: chicken thighs, Russian banana fingerling potatoes from the garden, artichoke hearts, Castelvetrano olives, roasted red peppers, red onions, and capers. The seasonings were salt,pepper, oregano, marjoram, and thyme sprigs from the garden, olive oil, and lemon juice. Look for the recipe here soon.