Tuesdays with Dorie: Chipster-Topped Brownies

There are nights where I’m confounded by the thought: brownies or chocolate chip cookies?  I draw on all of my mental tricks to puzzle through this conundrum.  First, I close my eyes and imagine a plate of one or the other being put in front of me.  How do I feel?  Happy?  Or a tiny [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Mango bread

I’m beginning to think mangoes are manic-depressive.  One day, they’re high-intensity, full of vim and vigor, starring or even taking over an entire meal.  They’re like this when you eat them ripe out of hand, in a mango bellini, in mango salsa, lightly caramelized on top a coconut-lime rice pudding, in a cold mango soup.  [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Tartest Lemon Tart

This tart uses one and a half whole lemons, including the juice, pulp, pith, and zest.  I suppose it isn’t technically the whole lemon — I did remove the seeds.  Nevertheless, I washed a lemon, dried it off, cut it into chunks, mixed it with sugar, and blended the whole thing in a mixer to [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Tiramisu Cake

Although I always love boozy cakes when they’re served to me, not one has ever made it into my personal repertoire.  It’s probably my general bias that if a cake needs to be soaked in whiskey or marsala or amaretto, it must be trying to hide something.  The words dry, cardboard, and stale leap to [...]

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