A Hungry Bear

chocolate stout cupcakes with bailey’s cream cheese frosting

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I’ve had this recipe bookmarked since I saw it back in March on one of my favorite food blogs, Closet Cooking. I like the way this blogger picks a theme or single ingredient and then makes several different things back to back with it. In this case he was doing a lot of [...]

martha stewart’s perfect mac and cheese

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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It’s been too long since I tried a new mac and cheese recipe. The good news is that, in this very post, I’m going to share the best recipe I’ve ever tried. The bad news? That it could possibly be the last, since I don’t know if I’ll ever want to cook [...]

focaccia flatbread

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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I’m on a quest to make some focaccia reubens I saw in a magazine recently. Of course it would be easier if I bought some from the Whole Foods bakery, but that would be to easy - and it takes a way a chance to try one more recipe from Rose Levy Berenbaum’s The [...]

red velvet cupcakes

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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I would have made a great 1950’s housewife. It makes me obscenely happy to bake desserts for A - so much so that I can get in trouble for it. At first he loved it, coming home to have a chocolate kahlua cheesecake baked for him for no apparent reason. Then, maybe [...]

pigs in blankets

Monday, March 2, 2009

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Working on the blog update has kept me so busy I’ve had to resort to some faster recipes. Pigs-in-blankets are a childhood favorite, although my mom always made them with Bisquick mix. I could have used a standard biscuit recipe, but I found this recipe on Epicurious instead - kind of a like [...]

bacon cheddar quick bread

Sunday, November 2, 2008

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I’ve never had a desire to bake my own bread, but I guess that’s the next step in my adoption of the “slow food” trend. When I saw this recipe for a bacon and cheddar quick bread in the October 2008 issue of Bon Appetit, it was time to bite the bullet. It [...]

leek tart with goat cheese

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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I really am loving Molly Wizenberg’s (AKA Orangette) “Cooking Life” column in Bon Appetit. She is such an incredible food writer - she’s so over the top with her descriptions (I can relate). Her column in the October 2008 issue was probably my favorite, featuring 2 recipes in 1, for leek confit [...]

5 pounds of chocolate cupcakes

Thursday, October 2, 2008

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I found this recipe in the most unlikely of places - by talking to a startup software executive at a conference. I immediately like people when it’s apparent they have a love of food that rivals mine, and this woman was awesome. She had just moved back from Spain, and instead of talking [...]

peach & blackberry cobbler

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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This isn’t my Gramma’s recipe, but I still think she’d approve of this well-researched version from The New Best Recipe cookbook. The biscuit topping is made with yogurt, which I’ve never tried before. This gives it a chewy texture, less crumbly and, well, biscuit-y, than I’m used to. I love mixing in [...]

cream cheese brownies

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Another weekend, another request for homemade dessert… A finally got his hands on my copy of “The New Best Recipe” (from Cook’s Illustrated), and started reading the dessert section. As an engineer, he was impressed with the thorough, scientific approach, which was all he needed to be convinced that their brownie recipes must [...]