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Dec 10

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Quick Hit: Betty’s But Better – Cinnamon-Chipotle Snickerdoodles

I’ve mentioned before that Betty Crocker’s Snickerdoodles are a mainstay of my holiday baking repertoire. It’s a cookie I’ve loved since I was a kid and it’s one of Wolf’s favorites, too.  While he was in NYC this weekend, sending me jealous-making photos from Momofuku Noodle Bar and Il Laboratorio del Gelato, I was in the kitchen whipping up these cookies. (Good man, he brought me some Milk Bar cookies).

With just a quick tweak, you get the cinnamon you’re expecting in a snickerdoodle, but with a slow building smoky heat from the chipotle.  Two additional changes I do make to the original recipe — add 1/2 t. vanilla and up the salt to 1/2 t. as well.

Betty’s, but one better.

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Oct 29

Chipotle-Scented Sweet Potato Corn Muffins…in a Jiffy

I just can’t seem to get on the pumpkin bandwagon this year.  Everywhere you look, things have been pumpkin-ized. It’s not new, Starbucks has done a pumpkin spice latte for years, I can remember 31 Flavors doing a pumpkin pie ice cream when I was a kid,  but I must be spending too much time in the aisles at Trader Joe’s, because I already have pumpkin fatigue.   Pumpkin spice chai, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pancake and waffle mix, pumpkin macarons, pumpkin yogurt, pumpkin cream cheese. Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin (Marsha, Marsha, Marsha)! And I know when you saw these muffins, you thought pumpkin, right? Nope.  Sweet potato.  Chipotle and cinnamon-scented sweet potato corn muffins.

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Apr 10

Masa Biscuits with Ham & Chipotle Jam


Half Price Books has been an amazing source for cookbooks. Somehow there are always good finds, whether semi-recent releases or books of a certain vintage. I always want to leave bookmarks or post-its sticking out of some books saying, “BUY THIS ONE!!” And while sometimes you know why books end up on the clearance shelf — 80s microwave cooking, anyone? — others are a mystery. The El Paso Chile Company’s Texas Border Cookbook — was one of those mysteries, but the recipe for masa biscuits alone made it a bargain at twice the price.
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Oct 15

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Coffee-Chipotle Brisket Sliders

It felt good to be back in the kitchen this week. And it felt good to switch gears and really get into some cool-weather cooking. We’re already in our pattern of rainy (or overcast) days and we’re barely getting into the 60s. But I can’t complain, it’s time to break out the sweaters and turn on the oven. That’s why this week’s project was Lisa Fain’s Coffee-Chipotle Brisket from The Homesick Texan Cookbook. I can already tell this book will get a place of honor in the kitchen and that some other is going to get kicked down to our bookcases downstairs.
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Oct 13

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Homesick Texan’s Coffee Chipotle Barbecue Sauce

Paging through Lisa Fain’s The Homesick Texan Cookbook, I immediately thought, I’ll just start at page one and cook my way through…but then I caught sight of the coffee-chipotle brisket…which bakes in the oven for 6 hours and then is slathered in coffee-chipotle barbecue sauce. I mean, does it get better than that? I’ll go back to the beginning another time.
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