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Looks delicious!! I wish I was nearby! I’ve been making a lot of bone broths and soups lately ~ I love having it on stock and available for a last minute meal or to prepare a nourishing soup. Xo

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making soups of all sorts is the best!

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Try adding a couple of teaspoons of lemon or orange zest to the olive oil cake… it’s delicious!

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there is lemon zest in the olive oil cake ~ i’m less a fan of orange in desserts, unless accompanied by ginger snaps!!

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That’s a pairing I hadn’t considered—sweeet!

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amie, get the black sesame butter ~ the one i suggested has some crunch, too. seriously, it’s like crack (in the best of ways)

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I miss baking. I was always the baker in my family, but nobody eats sweets anymore, so I rarely bake.

However, every year I bake Irish soda bread for St. Patrick’s day. This year I baked one for my husband and one for my brother-in-law, at his request.

I have the best recipe. It was printed in the Newark Star Ledger when I lived in NJ back in the ‘90’s

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I’d love to see the recipe. Sadly, I am responsible for reinvigorating sweets into our repertoire ~ hence the invitation to come over and save me from myself!!

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I have become obsessed with olive oil cakes as well! I will definitely download your recipes, except the toll house…I have a lighter version that tastes just as great!

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there are so many Toll House varieties, that’s for sure ~ I’d love to know what makes yours lighter?

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I’m not a scientist, but I love to bake…I did get this recipe from the source…there is less butter, 2 egg whites instead of the yolks and water. There is more flour, more brown sugar and less granulated…did I get duped? 🤔

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definitely not duped, but maybe different vices? i guess i’ll always be a butter girl through and through!

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I’m definitely a butter girl, too! I just add it to everything else!

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Oh, I will totally come to Rochester and eat all of your delicious bakes!

I haven't read Tamar Adler, but mention of her immediately made me think of Tamar Haspel who wrote To Boldly Grow. You might enjoy it. I did.

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Oh I don’t know To Boldly Grow, thank you for the recommendation. Tamar Adler is extraordinary ~ I love her new book, all about leftovers in many forms, and making the unwanted wanted.

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And Cook & Tell adores narrative threads…give us the full report once you’ve baked up the s’mores please

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