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Brown Sugar-Balsamic Swirl Ice Cream Recipe at Epicurious. Yield Makes generous 1 quart The custard needs to be refrigerated overnight before it's processed in the ice cream maker, so plan accordingly.

Brown Sugar-Balsamic Swirl Ice Cream Recipe at Epicurious

Preparation Combine heavy whipping cream, whole milk, and 1/2 cup sugar in heavy large saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring cream mixture to simmer over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Recipe: two (exactly two!) chocolate cupcakes. I have a strange relationship with sweets.

recipe: two (exactly two!) chocolate cupcakes

I’m kind of obsessed with making them, but I’m not really that much into eating them. I don’t have a big sweet tooth (I’ll take wine and cheese over cookies almost any day of the week). Hot Topic: Harissa and Berbere Paste » Wonderland Kitchen. I think it was the mix of vibrant sun and biting wind this past weekend that inspired me to finally do something constructive with the bag of dried hot peppers sitting in my pantry.

Hot Topic: Harissa and Berbere Paste » Wonderland Kitchen

A friend had shared her beautiful stash with me, along with a family recipe for a fantastic-sounding chili; hopefully she won’t mind the project detour I ultimately took with her ingredients. In truth, I had been contemplating making berbere paste for years–ever since discovering a recipe for it in the pages of the World Food Cafe cookbook in 2002. It seemed so exotic! But then I’d read the long list of ingredients and find myself getting sleepy before even making it into the kitchen. So, as with overly complicated knitting projects and 1,000 piece picture puzzles, it got pushed to the back of the closet, an idea for some rainy day down the line.

Minty Grapefruit Brûlée.

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