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 [...]

foster’s market mac and cheese

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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It’s about time for a new MAC recipe right? Foster’s Market is quintessentially Chapel Hill NC - a place where hippies and yuppies both get along, for good coffee, amazing pastries and sandwiches, comfy seating where you can sit and read a paper for hours, etc. I haven’t been for years, since I [...]

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 [...]

football sunday onion dip

Sunday, November 23, 2008

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A loves french onion dip: the gnarly, plastic-y “helluva good” brand french onion dip in a can. I can barely stand to look at the stuff, not to mention taste it. The label includes about 57 chemicals and “powdered” flavoring. Needless to say, I don’t buy it unprompted. When I saw [...]

football food: creamy spinach artichoke dip

Monday, October 20, 2008

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A and I don’t really have “date night” since he’s in grad school, but we do have “date football” on Sunday afternoons. If both our teams (Panthers & Steelers) are on at the same time, we bring the second TV down from the bedroom and set both up side by side. We’ll make [...]

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 [...]

happy birthday cheesecake

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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Yesterday was A’s birthday, so I knew his “Mama Lynn” would be making him his favorite chocolate kahlua cheesecake to celebrate. Of course there’s no way I wasn’t going to make him a dessert myself, I just had to do something different (and a day early). I decided to make a standard cheesecake [...]

lynn’s chocolate kahlua cheesecake

Saturday, March 15, 2008

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I don’t normally make a lot of desserts, and I’m one of those weird people that never craves chocolate. I’ve wanted to learn how to make this for A, knowing that it’s his favorite dessert ever. The recipe comes from Lynn, a coworker who adores A (she says he reminds him of her [...]