Food

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Annie Holland / July 17, 2009

I have a sin to confess!I have NEVER EVER baked chocolate chip cookies before!Yep, that’s right!Not that I don’t like them, I LOVE THEM! But in my country they are not popular and I thought of them as something extremely hard to make.Since I got this AMAZING book ( “The Dessert Bible” by Christopher Kimbal)…

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Tanita’s Pumpkin Cookies

By Annie Holland / July 17, 2009

2 and 1/2 cups flour1 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon nutmeg( powdered)1/4 teaspoon salt1 and 1/2 cups white granulated sugar1/2 cup melted butter( 8 tablespoons=1 stick)1 cup mashed pumpkin1 egg1 teaspoon vanilla First mix the dry ingredients together – the flour, the baking soda, the baking powder, the cinnamon, the nutmeg…

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Pudding “Day&Night” with raspberries

By Annie Holland / July 13, 2009

When I was very little ( 6-7 years old) we lived closer to one of the first big super stores in my city. The store had a small cafe, that was selling also puddings in plastic cups. My mom, as good as cook as she is was so against me buying anything that can be…

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The cookies with a lot of names

By Annie Holland / July 11, 2009

You might know them as Mexican Wedding Cakes, Russian tea cookies, Snow balls etc, but no matter how you call them, they are still the same unbelievably delicious treat, that seduces your over and over again.No matter how many I make, they are never enough and I would be eternally grateful to my friend Tanita,…

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Puff pastry breakfast rolls

By Annie Holland / July 8, 2009

This is one of the easiest ways you can have a warm, delicious and cheep breakfast. My kids just adore these rolls and I always keep a sheet of puff pastry in my freezer for the mornings I am in a hurry but want to feed them something delicious. You will need: 1 pkg. Pepperidge…

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Pizza Fritta- the ultimate comfort food ( Mekici)

By Annie Holland / June 29, 2009

Since I was very little this is one of my favorite comfort foods.I still remember the lazy rainy mornings at my Grandma’s house, full of the aroma of freshly fried pizza frittas ( or fried dough as they tell them here). Or the time when I was a student, the wither wind brushing your face…

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P.F. Chang’s lettuce wraps (attempt)

By Annie Holland / June 6, 2009

I can’t state for certain this is the original recipe, but I do have a very good palate and I’ve tasted very carefully the lettuce wraps we’ve been served, so I dare to say if my recipe is not the same, it is very, very close to the original. You will need: 1 iceberg lettuce…

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The Despereaux’s Soup

By Annie Holland / April 20, 2009

Now if you have kids you probably can quote whole conversations from the movie to the word, but if not, you can take a look here:The Tale of Despereaux Kids love movies. Kids love food. Kids love movies with food in them. But my kids LOVE LOVE movies with food in them, because I usually…

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Easter 2009

By Annie Holland / April 19, 2009

Easter and Palm Sunday are two of my favorite holidays. Now, if you are like me and you prefer to make your own Easter breads, this time of the year looks more like inside view of the time when the Egyptian Pyramids were build. When I say inside view, I mean more of a slave-dragging-all-these-stone-blocks…

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Maki Sushi

By Annie Holland / February 23, 2009

I don’t just eat sushi, I adore it! Since a Japanese friend of mine made me some when I first came to the US, I was hooked up immediately!It’s just amazing how you can love something you’ve never tasted before, but I did. And I still do. I was kind of intimidated though by the…

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