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Spotlight On Baking: From My Home To Yours #1: Swedish Visiting Cake

Today's recipe is for Sara's (of Weekend Cookbook Challenge fame) collection of posts about Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. The recaps of everyone's contribution to this event will be posted at the Weekend Cookbook Challenge site soon. So check them all out when they are up! First off, this is a …

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The First Risotto of the Season: Shrimp, Garbanzo Bean & Cherry Tomato Risotto

This was one of those, "hmmmm, I wonder what I could throw into a risotto?" kind of meals. Really, once you have arborio rice, broth, wine and Parmesan cheese, anything else goes. So, I had a bag of interesting green garbanzo beans from Trader Joe's in the freezer. I also had about a half pound …

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