Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate-crunched caramel tart

So I joined a yoga class.  I mostly decided to do this because of my running.  Runners tend to work the same muscles and tendons over and over until one day a mutinous subset decide they’re going on strike.  It could be the foot, or the knee, or the hamstring; or, more likely, muscles [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Cottage Cheese Pufflets, or, Homemade Raspberry Pop-Tarts

This summer in Maine, I went to a Portland restaurant for brunch and ordered their house made cinnamon and sugar pop tart.  It was so delicious, I’ve been searching for a homemade pop tart recipe ever since.
Now, I hear cottage cheese and I think, “Oh, please.  Give me something I can work with here.”  Cottage [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Flaky Apple Turnovers

This is my first full week back in North Carolina after spending the entire summer in Maine.  It’s entirely disorienting to enter my house and have an empty refrigerator and freezer.  Me, with an empty refrigerator?  Something needed to be done.
But so many other things crowded for my attention.  My two young children started preschool, [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate souffle

Summer. It’s warm, light, full of breath and life, and perfect for a brief, shining moment. Turn your back, and it’s gone.
I spent the summer in Maine with my family, and we drove back to North Carolina over the Labor Day weekend. Nearly 900 miles. As we tooled down I-95, leaving [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Espresso Cheesecake Brownies

My dad, a recently-retired college English teacher, used to have a quote tacked up to the bulletin board in his office.   It’s from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and it said:
“There’s nothing up ahead that’s any better than it is right here.”
As the mother of two young children, trying to manage part-time [...]

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