Cranberry-Walnut Celebration Bread

With three days before Christmas, while the southern plains are pummeled with snow storms, Chicago enjoys a strange mild winter with temperatures in the mid 40s with no precipitations! As much as I enjoy a white Christmas, and believe me, we have quite a bit of those in Chicago, I also appreciate spending time in the kitchen, baking, instead of shoveling snow.

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Post tags: baking, BBA, BBA-Challenge, Bread, Bread Baker's Apprentice, celebration bread, chicago, Christmas, cranberry, gabi bucataru, holiday, kitchen, Mamaliga, panettone, Peter Reinhart, pinchmysalt.com, Romania, Thanksgiving, Timisoara, walnut

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Panettone

Merry Christmas! This is the second time me baking the Panettone from Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice for the BBA Challenge. I didn’t blog about it since there were some things I wanted to tweak and adapt from his original formula (that, with all respect to the man, doesn’t even come close to the quintessential Panettone Milanese). Quite a few changes. Now I know why Nicole calls the BBA Challenge a ‘challenge’…

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Post tags: BBA-Challenge, candied fruits, candied orange peel, Christmas, christmas italian bread, italian cuisine, panettone, Peter Reinhart, sourdough, sweet bread, The Bread Baker's Apprentice

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Chocolate Tart

Don’t be fooled. This humble chocolate tart is packed with enough potential to turn even the most chocolate-disciplined person into a dessert-ivore. So much more that is so easy and fast – if you read my previous post on baking short crust sweet pastry tart shells and you have two or three of them in the freezer.

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Post tags: chocolate, chocolate tart, cooking, dessert, ganache, jamie oliver, Naked Chef, Recipes

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What looked like a failed cooking afternoon turned around unexpectedly into a success story. The Sarmale (stuffed cabbage rolls) turned out as it should – the rolls didn’t fall apart, they remained stiff, retaining their initial shape, the taste was full of cabbage flavor with a flagrant tomatoe aroma. One thing that I should have added more was salt. But better less than over-salted.

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Post tags: Balkan cuisine, cabbage rolls, Eastern European cuisine, pickled cabbage, Romania, romanian, Romanian Cuisine, sarmale, sarmalute, sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage rolls

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