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buttermilk

Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits

November 4, 2011

My hair is in rollers.  Like… kickin’ it old school in Velcro rollers. No one needs to know that besides the 137 of you who read this  blog, my cat, and any random person who comes to this blog after Google searching “the most awesome biscuits ever made, for real”. Ah.. the rollers.  It’s amazing [...]

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Lavender and Toasted Walnut Scones

August 5, 2011

How diplomatic is your shower? Do you have minty unisex soaps?  Do you have pleasant, not completely feminine smelling shampoo? Do you hide the pumice stone in the bathroom cabinet?  What’s going on with the face wash situation?   Does it smell like… you know, soap? I might have an issue.  I’m rocking gardenia body [...]

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Orange and Dark Chocolate Buttermilk Scones

January 16, 2011

This is one of my favorite ways to count to five. It has chocolate.  So.. yea.

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Brown Butter Winter Citrus Pancakes

December 30, 2010

My goodness.  This world has these seasons planned out just perfectly.  Amidst super rain, chilly wind and grey skies, we get blood oranges, tangerines and grapefruit! Big, bright, cheek puckering citrus is perfect for winter breakfast.  I know… it happened this morning. I’d also like to thank the good world for creating coffee and hot [...]

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What to do with all that Buttermilk

April 7, 2010

  If you’ve been around these parts long enough, you’ve probably noticed that I’m pretty fond of buttermilk.   Buttermilk brings the tang, brings a tender texture… and is all around awesome in baking.   But once you buy the carton for one recipe, what the heck are you supposed to do with the rest [...]

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Avocado Pound Cake

March 2, 2010

t I’d really like to conjure up some useful information for you.  That would be nice, right?  I could tell you all about avocados.  Where they came from.  What a lovely shade of green they are.  Why they’re so expensive at the grocery store… you know, things like that. But you didn’t come here for [...]

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Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

November 23, 2009

In the event of some sort of big fat natural disaster in California, I may be up a creek without a paddle.  Sure, I’ve got the canned tuna, the emergency gallons of water and a few flashlights with dying batteries.  I’ve got the walking shoes, a space blanket and pepper spray… you need those things, [...]

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The Best Buttermilk Substitutions

October 7, 2009

  Let’s take a quick minute to talk about buttermilk.   What is buttermilk?  Buttermilk is a slightly sour milk.   The sourness of buttermilk comes acids in the milk, most notably, lactic acids.  Because the proteins in buttermilk are slightly curdled, buttermilk is slightly thicker than regular milk, but not quite as thick as [...]

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Buttermilk Pie with Blackberry Sauce

August 3, 2008

Update: I just got a lovely note from Barbara Duke, one of the authors of Panache at Rose Hill.  Here’s what she has to say about this lovely pie! Hi Joy: I’m Evan’s Mimi.  Just a little info about the buttermilk pie.  When our great, great grandmothers were traveling in those covered wagons, they had [...]

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Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream

March 19, 2008

I’ll be the first to admit that I have gotten prematurely excited about strawberry season.  I’ve already played with strawberry sugar paper, and here I am with strawberry ice cream.  It’s not even April! Strawberries aren’t at their peak flavor yet, but I see baskets of them in every market I visit.  I just can’t help myself, [...]

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