Brown Butter Financiers
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One my favorites, of all French pastries, is the financier. Enriched with
nuts, and moistened with butter, almost every bakery you go into has them.
They c...
The Best Plum Cake: Fast, Easy and Delicious
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This plum cake might be the perfect dessert. It’s easy to make, and can be
served as morning coffee cake or a dinner dessert. As the weather gets
chillie...
This Saturday’s Recipes by The Pioneer Woman
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This Saturday is a brand new episode of “Home Sweet Home” on Food Network.
My kids are helping me shoot it, my production company in the UK is editing
it t...
Salt: The hidden preservative
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"No preservatives!" "No artificial preservatives!" This can only be true if
the prepared food item has zero salt. Because salt is the oldest
preservative k...
Follow Czech Please on Social Media
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Dear readers,
I decided to stop posting to this blog at the end of 2013. The good news is
that I am still posting regularly on my *Czech Please FaceBook* a...
October 23
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Last night I got to spend some time with my friend Sam. We hadn't hung out,
just the two of us, for a while - maybe not since June was born, if I
really th...
Chengdu, China
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I never have been travelling in China, was never interested to work there
or even visit. Mostly because of second hand stories I have heard. Well,
was I wr...
Who's got spirit? Russian elderly, of course. An orchestra entertains them every evening in Moscow's Alexandrov Garden. (I'm the one in the striped leggins.)