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Ina’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
Do you ever experience recipe overwhelm? Like, how many different ways are there to make chocolate cupcakes? Obviously, as a certified Type A lunatic, I envision myself finding 20 recipes and testing them all side by side because I want to be sure I found the best one. How can you just randomly point your finger into the ether and choose a cupcake recipe if you haven’t taste-tested it alongside all its competitors? (Maybe you’ve seen the Crate and Barrel commercial with Reese Witherspoon testing cranberry sauce recipes? So relatable.) Most recently, I wanted to find, as I mentioned above, a great chocolate cupcake recipe. I searched the internet as…
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Arancini – A New Holiday Tradition
I love the holidays for one billion reasons, but perhaps one of the most significant is the food. It gives me an excuse to try new and elaborate things that you would just never bother to make on a weeknight, or even a normal weekend for that matter. Holidays give you an excuse to make true special occasion food. (And luckily we have “Januarys” every year to give us an excuse to omit all special occasion food and become pious again… but that’s another story for another day.) This year, I decided to try a recipe for a traditional Italian food, arancini. Arancini, as far as I understand them, are…
