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Garlic Confit Air Fryer Bread

Garlic confit cloves and oil turn classic garlic bread into something richer and sweeter. The air fryer gets the edges perfectly crisp while the inside stays soft. Garlic Confit Air Fryer Bread, Because You Already Made the Garlic Confit This recipe only exists if you already have garlic confit in your fridge. You did make some didn’t you? Once you’ve…
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Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pastries

Breakfast sausage, eggs, and cheddar wrapped in puff pastry and baked until golden. They’re the kind of breakfast you can pick up and eat and not resent. Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pastries: An Overcorrection, On Purpose Who else remembers being handed a Carnation Instant Breakfast and being told, sincerely, that this was breakfast. It was basically a glass of…
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Slow Cooker Garlic Confit Mashed Potatoes

These slow cooker mashed potatoes get their flavor from garlic confit, using both the soft cloves and the oil they cook in. The potatoes cook gently in broth, mash easily, and stay creamy without constant attention. Slow Cooker Garlic Confit Mashed Potatoes, Without the Usual Mess These slow cooker mashed potatoes get their depth from garlic confit, where garlic slowly…
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Russian Honey Cake (Medovik)

Russian honey cake (Medovik) with baked honey layers and a whipped dulce de leche frosting that softens the cake during refrigeration. Best when it’s sliced cold after a full overnight rest. Russian Honey Cake (Medovik), As I Was Taught This cake is based on the Russian honey cake my grandmother taught me to make. She left Poland alone (age 17,…
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Strawberry Mini Cheesecakes

These strawberry mini cheesecakes are baked in a muffin tin with a classic graham cracker crust and finished with a fresh strawberry topping made from real fruit. Strawberry Mini Cheesecakes, From Whatever Was Around I have an app on my phone called Be My Eyes. I’m a seeing person. Blind people use it when they need help with something simple…
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Smoked Salmon Dip

Creamy smoked salmon dip made with cream cheese, dill, capers, and lemon, finished with quick-pickled red onions for bite. It works as a dip, a bagel spread, or anywhere you’d normally want a scoop or a schmear. Smoked Salmon Dip That Doesn’t Stay in One Role Back in the day, when I was in the trenches of the wine business,…
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Cauliflower Mac and Cheese

Cauliflower mac and cheese with a proper roux-based cheese sauce, sour cream, and plenty of cheddar. This is what I make when I want mac and cheese and don’t feel like eating pasta. Cauliflower Mac and Cheese, On Purpose There are certain meals I make only when no one else is around to give their opinion, cauliflower mac and cheese…
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Garlic Confit

Oven-made garlic confit cooked low and slow in olive oil until the cloves are soft and mellow. This is my straightforward method, with predictable results, and absolutely no surprises. Garlic Confit, a Practical Response to Excess I didn’t plan to become a person with hundreds of garlic cloves drying on a deck, but that’s exactly what happened. Five years ago…
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