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Anna’s Sweet Potatoes
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving or Christmas without these on our table. Potato Layer 4 c. sweet potatoes, cooked and mashed 1/2 c. sugar ½ c. butter, melted 2 eggs,...
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Orange Bizcochitos
Whew! Our decorations are up...The house is in full holiday mode. Two trees, 5 stockings, all those wreaths. Suddenly it's Christmastime at the Kee home.
Or maybe...
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Extremely Ginger Muffins
Every Christmas morning we serve Gram's ginger muffins. Not sure where she got the recipe...maybe from some long-forgotten newspaper article. Or maybe it's a...
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Kitchen Pantry Kouign-Amann
Lizzy -when she was working in Paris after college- kept telling us about this unbelievable sweet, soft yet crispy pastry with a caramelized bottom. It originated outside Paris, in Brittany,...
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New Orleans Chocolate Pecan Pie
Can you describe New Orleans in a word or two? It's impossible. The city has more identities, more nicknames than any other place....The Big...
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Intensely Dense Ginger Cake
I wonder if the ginger gene is dominant? No, no, not the Prince Harry, Nicole Kidman, Ed Sheeran kind of ginger gene. The one...
Beverages
“Buzzed Babbo” Cranberry Cocktail
We're officially obsessed with Domenica Marchetti's granita recipe. First we made it with honeydew melon. Then we tried it with watermelon. We liked that...
Budapest
Honey Gingerbread and Kürtőskalács
The Budapest Christmas Fair may be small, but it packs a sensory-overload of sounds, smells and sights into a few city blocks. The two...
Beverages
Dark Hot Chocolate and Christmas in Budapest
If you're lucky, like we were, you'll arrive in Budapest at night. And, after passing miles and miles of generic concrete highrises, you'll look...
Budapest
Budapest Christmas Fair
Boldog Karácsonyt!
We're in Budapest for the Christmas market which has hundreds of wooden stalls selling hearty holiday food and drink. Oh, and a few...