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Mexican Chocolate Cake

by Jillian Bedell May 15, 2013

Once upon a time in Mexico I got married in front of a fountain and a defrocked priest and friends and family, under a cloudless blue sky in the open courtyard of a colonial mansion. There was no aisle, no mass, no pews, no flower girl. No programs, no rice, no chuppah. There were, however, [...]

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Homemade Oreo Cookies

by Jillian Bedell April 9, 2013

Is it possible for a facsimile to be as good as the real thing? What if the source, what you’re copying, is packaged in plastic, processed, and shelf-stable? But it’s also iconic, nostalgic, a specific chemical combination that affects us profoundly through every sense? The Oreo is one of the most recognizable cookies in American [...]

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Chocolate Banana Cream Pie Squares

by Jillian Bedell March 12, 2013

In 1999 we threw our first party as a couple. We all lived safely and sound in the on-campus dorms that year. So when an older friend asked us to house-sit in a nearby country town, we were ecstatic. We went grocery shopping, stocked up on booze and movies, and settled into a very cozy [...]

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Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Biscotti

by Jillian Bedell February 19, 2013

It’s possible I’ve had more than thirty jobs in thirty-four years. I just can’t seem to figure out what it is I want to do all day every day, for the rest of my life. Because I went to college in the late 90′s and was a girl somewhere on the continuum between wing-wearing interesting [...]

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Frrrozen Hot Chocolate

by Jillian Bedell February 14, 2013

On our first Valentine’s Day together, Malcolm made me a giant poster board heart with the letter “J” done in glittery macaroni. It was sweet and silly and totally perfect for our first year of dating, which mostly consisted of hanging out in his dorm room on a thrifted, threadbare couch watching “The Practice” and [...]

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Rosemary Olive Oil Cake with Chocolate Ganache

by Jillian Bedell January 8, 2013

I really am in love with this unusual cake. It’s light and rich, wintry and elegant, perfect for afternoon tea. Or breakfast. Or very late at night, with a small glass of port and DVR-d Downton Abbey. Years ago in Mexico, I discovered that baking cakes with olive oil is wonderful. It is a somewhat [...]

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Chocolate Pecan Pie

by Jillian Bedell November 20, 2012

Pie is really having a moment. Am I right? As a nation, we’ve revisited cupcakes, experimented with cake pops, gotten cozy with red velvet and all went bananas for salted caramel everything. I think now we’re in the midst of a pie Renaissance. Pie is humble. It has working class roots. In the movies scrappy, [...]

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How to Make “Magic Shell” Style Ice Cream Topping

by Malcolm Bedell November 16, 2012

I’ve got nothing but love for “Magic Shell,” the chocolate ice cream topping that starts out a liquid, but freezes instantly over ice cream into a thin, crackly shell that you whack with the back of a spoon before you take a bite. It’s equal parts food science from the wizards at Smucker’s and, as [...]

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Classics: Fudge Brownies

by Jillian Bedell October 31, 2012

It’s our very first grown-up Halloween. Our first Halloween with a giant bowl of Kit-Kats and Butterfingers and the porch lights on for trick-or-treaters. Our first year answering the doorbell, admiring all the Batmans, princesses and and witches, then snapping off the lights at eight o’clock, after the last horde of kids were clearly creepy [...]

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Cowboy Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

by Jillian Bedell October 26, 2012

Ninth grade was a time of transition. I never have been good at transition. In middle school – sixth through eight grades – I was profoundly awkward. Now, every supermodel and high functioning grown-up will insist that she was a gawky tween, and I’m sure this is true in their hearts. But I really was [...]

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