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“Make ‘em Your Way”
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Do you expect a recipe you try to be exactly like the beautiful one pictured in a cookbook? Guess what? It doesn’t happen. Recipes have a list of suggested ingredients and show you a possible road, but they remain just guidelines.
A recipe’s job is to entice, guide, and encourage a new learning. That’s because a recipe becomes a little bit of you as you add, mix, substitute, leave out, or change things. So many features vary. To name a few, there are different ovens, pans, measurements, environments, ingredients, and taste preferences. Some tomatoes are sweet, some tart. Cinnamon can be strong or sweetly mild. Certain recipe baseline knowledge is assumed, but recipes are not like the robot in your car.
Cooks need to tweak those recipes, adding more, less, mixing, stirring, or just folding. How long does a recipe really need to cook? You decide that.
People learn from basic recipes but soon realize that other ingredients can be substituted, or two recipes can even be combined or weaved together. That recipe is a jumping-off point to create your own dish.
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Quick Change Recipes
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Umami Blended Bison Burgers
A wild, wonderful, and flavorful bison, mushroom blended burger
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About the Recipe: When mixed with mushrooms and onions, bison burgers are moist and have a savory umami flavor. Using Korean gochujang and light Asian ingredients, the flavor blend is a little sweet, hot, spicy, and even salty. Add Napa cabbage slaw, pickled peppers, juicy tomato, fresh onion slices, and a touch of mayonnaise to create presto a delicious burger dinner.
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“Twist ‘n Swirl” Cranberry Cinnamon Bread
Perfect to serve as a sweet or savory holiday bread
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About the Recipe: Are you looking for a new holiday bread? This cinnamon bread is lightly flavored with oranges and filled with sweet tart cranberries. The twisted Babka bread is sprinkled with white crystals of sugar. Serve it as a sweet or savory coffeecake for breakfast or a brunch.
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Ricotta Spoonable – Add-On
Use it for appetizers, starters, sandwiches, spread, salads
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About the Recipe: This is a simple recipe that lends itself to mixing and matching the herbs and citrus you have on hand. It is handy to keep in the refrigerator to serve with fresh vegetables like tomatoes and roasted peppers as a salad, over pasta, spread, or quick snack.
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Roasted Peppers Spoonable Salad
Make the peppers ahead of time for individual plates or platters
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About the Recipe: This recipe will take only a few minutes to assemble at serving time. It can be served on individual salad plates or on a small platter. The Ricotta Spoonable and the roasted peppers can be made ahead of time. Garnish with available fresh herb sprigs or leaves. Use a quality olive oil and sherry or white Balsamic vinegar for drizzles.
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Welcome to “Baking with Dorie”
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SWEET, SALTY & SIMPLE
Dorie Greenspan
Photo Courtesy Dorie Greenspan
“Over those years, I worked on the kinds of recipes I love most, recipes that are simple, rely on basic techniques and have deep flavors and complex textures. I created recipes that are flexible, that allow you to play with them, swap ingredients, fancy them up with icing or leave them bare, their natural color their own decoration. And, since I love surprises, I built them into lots of the recipes. I’m happiest when a recipe that looks familiar harbors something unexpected.”
This is her latest book:
Photo Courtesy Dorie Greenspan
Known for her multiple James Beard Award and IACP Award-winning cookbooks, Dorie Greenspan is back with 150 all new signature recipes in BAKING WITH DORIE (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; October 19, 2021; $35.00;). This new collection, her fourteenth cookbook, arrives exactly thirty years after her food writing debut, much to the delight of her legion of fans.
Book is available after October 19th at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other fine bookstores through out the US.
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Quick Change Recipes to “Make Your Own”
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French Apple Cake
Dorie Greenspan’s simple, moist cake with more apples than cake
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About the Recipe: This is a simple and very moist cake that has more apples than cake. The chunks of fresh apples give the cake a bumpy golden top, which is so appealing and unusual. It’s very easy to make and can be served warm or at room temperature with or without dollops of whipped cream, yogurt, or ice cream
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Spicy Smoked Sausage Sheet-Pan Supper
With roasted potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and colorful peppers
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About the Recipe: This recipe is quick to put-together and bakes in about 45 minutes. It’s filled with roasted, golden-brown potatoes, tender mushrooms, charred onions, colorful sweet bell peppers, and spicy hot large pieces of smoked beef sausage. Serve it with a fresh lettuce salad and slices of artisan bread. It’s a perfect recipe for a busy day dinner.
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Thick ’n Creamy Golden Corn Chowder
No heavy cream – just the goodness of farm-fresh corn
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About the Recipe: As early as 1884, corn chowder was a favorite dish to prepare. The creamy texture of fresh corn and its sweet flavor make it a popular holiday dish as well as a comfort supper soup. This recipe is especially tasty because the natural flavor of the corn, enhanced as it is blended into a smooth, thick silky broth, is served with bits of corn and potato cubes. Just garnish with a sprinkle of fresh minced chives or parsley.
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Asian Meatball Soup Bowl – (Make Ahead Recipe)
Ground turkey flavored with a moist garlic, ginger panade
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About the Recipe: This recipe can be tweaked to include the vegetables and type of noodles that you love. The meatballs are full of ginger, garlic, and herb flavor. The broth is simple and flavors the noodles with savory vegetables. I love the recipe since it can be prepared ahead of time and the noodles only take 4 minutes to cook. Don’t you just love one-bowl meals?
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Smoky Mediterranean Shepherd’s Pie
Comfort dish that can be made ahead
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About the Recipe: Shepherd’s Pie is a rustic main dish that in early cookery books used leftover roasted meat with mashed potato crust on top. The term shepherd’s pie is used more commonly when the meat is lamb. This recipe has a smoky flavored meat combination enhanced with sweet potatoes and kale. The creamy mashed potatoes cover the top of the pie. It’s simply delicious!
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Dorie Greenspan’s Custardy Apple Squares
A baked apple dessert resembling a flan type clafoutis
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About the Recipe: The recipe lightly adapted from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. It has the consistency of a clafoutis, which is a flan-type treat with a crepe batter that is baked, served warm, and dusted with powdered sugar. This simple dessert is perfectly flavored for autumn with juicy apples, but you could use pears or a fruit combination. It’s super easy to make and has a magical French touch.
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Blueberry Lime Crumb Cake
Popular tender crumb cake with moist blueberries and crisp crumbs
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About the Recipe: Dorie encourages cooks to “play around” with ingredients and flavors while following her basic recipe. Our cake, flavored with fresh lime, used fine orange corn grits for a crisp lime crumble and is layered with fresh blueberries. Check out her basic recipe in “Baking with Dorie” to see what other surprises you might add or change. The cake is tender and moist and topped with crunchy crumbs.
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Bed ‘n Breakfast Orange Walnut Loaf
Light orange flavored loaf with crunchy glazed walnuts
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About the Recipe: The quick bread loaf has a coarse crumb and sweet light citrus flavor. The miso and maple magically disappear blending a sweet note to a loaf. It would pair well with a breakfast menu or is delicious to serve as a sweet snack.
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