Semi-Homemade Apple Pie & Bourbon-Salted Caramel

  Hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for a large crowd calls for plenty of resourcefulness and serious time-planning skills. As I mentioned in my previous post: Thanksgiving Dinner Made Easy: Lessons Learned the Hard Way,  storebought quintessential ingredients rush to our rescue when we are totally overwhelmed by the number of dishes we have to make […]

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Lola’s Rice Pudding: The Bitter Sweet Memory

  Rice pudding is almost a universal spoon dessert.  It comes in various versions, it is either cooked on a stovetop or baked, eggless or eggy, bland, or spiced up. Rice pudding remains a comfort food that evokes sweet childhood memories across the universe.  My personal predilection goes for the simplest, fluffiest, creamiest, and eggless. […]

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