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Strawberry cream cake with whipped cream and topped with berries

Strawberry Cream Cake

By Maureen Abood On June 30, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Summer
Strawberry Cream Cake is a love song to fresh strawberries, just-picked! So fragrant and light, similar to strawberry shortcake, this dessert is a crowd-pleaser. On a drive up north here in Michigan, we recently heard a TED talk about the Blue Zones. These are the few communities around the world that have something important in [...]
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Valentine’s Day Recipes. Very sweet.

By Maureen Abood On February 6, 2015 · 6 Comments · In Menus
I’m thinking my inherent tic against all things cliché is owing to having been a lit major, a lit junkie programmed to ruthlessly weed those bad boys out of my writing. Perhaps it started there, but then it creeped into to pretty much every other aspect of life, from spoken word to interior design: no [...]
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Strawberry Rose Cheesecake Recipe, with labneh

By Maureen Abood On June 20, 2014 · 11 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban
I was on the hunt for strawberries for all kinds of reasons. Number one: the presence of strawberries at the farmer’s market Up North would mean that the soil, the air, the sun and sky were, at long long last, generous enough to give us a taste of summer. Secondly, last Friday was the first [...]
Read More »

Strawberry Rose Fool. My Favorite Bakeless Sweet.

By Maureen Abood On June 28, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Easter, Gluten-Free, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegetarian
I could talk about how summer is so very hot (not here) and you don’t want to turn on the oven. I could say here’s what to do when you have a profusion of berries (not here, yet), and want to make something simple with them (yes, here). We are so drawn to: It’s fast! [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: A Berry Bowl

By Maureen Abood On June 26, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Favorite Things
The berry bowl is, simply put, a colander that’s pretty enough to go from sink to table. I’ve been infatuated with this little white berry bowl that I bought years ago and that I’ve managed to keep with me despite all of the moves. Seems like with every big pack-up and un-pack, one of my [...]
Read More »

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, a hint of Rose Water, & Mom’s Best Crust

By Maureen Abood On May 10, 2013 · 19 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer
Strawberry rhubarb pie with rose water is a match made in pie heaven! My mom’s crust is also a dream, made with oil rather than butter, so it’s vegan! Photos. Recipe. Perfect Pie, with a shorthand summary of my Mom’s Best Crust that makes it all so simple. Need I say more? Yes, just this: [...]
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My Mom’s Best Pie Crust

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2013 · 53 Comments · In Stories and Recipes, Techniques
My Mom’s no-butter pie crust is heavenly…ultra flakey with a hint of salt. And the kicker: no butter! Perfectly vegan. Use the 10-inch double crust recipe for single-crust pies (more dough to work with for crimping the edges; tuck the extra under the perimeter). Everyone who knows my mother knows that the hallmark of her character [...]
Read More »

A June Menu: Lebanese Lunch Alfresco

By Maureen Abood On June 4, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Menus, Summer
There are few things we Aboods enjoy more than sitting around talking about what to cook and what to eat next. I suspect the same is true for at least some of you…. We get after it whether there’s a party to plan, a weekend dinner, or just lunch outside. Ideas fly and it’s a [...]
Read More »
Cream puff with strawberries on a pink and white vintage plate

Cream Puffs with Strawberries, for Mom

By Maureen Abood On May 10, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer
As you can imagine, exam time in culinary school can be stressful. We had three of them, and the first was in some ways the most challenging. That’s because we just didn’t know what to expect, having never taken a culinary practical exam and having watched far too many episodes of Iron Chef. The initial [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Vanilla Beans

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients
I’m a sucker for fragrant flavorings like rose water and orange blossom water. Vanilla is no less of a swoon for me, and I find its creamy, heady scent to be anything but bland. Why must we insist on calling the boring, the plain, vanilla? No more! Without vanilla, pastry would be lost, especially the [...]
Read More »
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Strawberry cream cake with whipped cream and topped with berries

Strawberry Cream Cake

By Maureen Abood On June 30, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Summer
Strawberry Cream Cake is a love song to fresh strawberries, just-picked! So fragrant and light, similar to strawberry shortcake, this dessert is a crowd-pleaser. On a drive up north here in Michigan, we recently heard a TED talk about the Blue Zones. These are the few communities around the world that have something important in [...]
Read More »

Valentine’s Day Recipes. Very sweet.

By Maureen Abood On February 6, 2015 · 6 Comments · In Menus
I’m thinking my inherent tic against all things cliché is owing to having been a lit major, a lit junkie programmed to ruthlessly weed those bad boys out of my writing. Perhaps it started there, but then it creeped into to pretty much every other aspect of life, from spoken word to interior design: no [...]
Read More »

Strawberry Rose Cheesecake Recipe, with labneh

By Maureen Abood On June 20, 2014 · 11 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban
I was on the hunt for strawberries for all kinds of reasons. Number one: the presence of strawberries at the farmer’s market Up North would mean that the soil, the air, the sun and sky were, at long long last, generous enough to give us a taste of summer. Secondly, last Friday was the first [...]
Read More »

Strawberry Rose Fool. My Favorite Bakeless Sweet.

By Maureen Abood On June 28, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Easter, Gluten-Free, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegetarian
I could talk about how summer is so very hot (not here) and you don’t want to turn on the oven. I could say here’s what to do when you have a profusion of berries (not here, yet), and want to make something simple with them (yes, here). We are so drawn to: It’s fast! [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: A Berry Bowl

By Maureen Abood On June 26, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Favorite Things
The berry bowl is, simply put, a colander that’s pretty enough to go from sink to table. I’ve been infatuated with this little white berry bowl that I bought years ago and that I’ve managed to keep with me despite all of the moves. Seems like with every big pack-up and un-pack, one of my [...]
Read More »

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, a hint of Rose Water, & Mom’s Best Crust

By Maureen Abood On May 10, 2013 · 19 Comments · In Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer
Strawberry rhubarb pie with rose water is a match made in pie heaven! My mom’s crust is also a dream, made with oil rather than butter, so it’s vegan! Photos. Recipe. Perfect Pie, with a shorthand summary of my Mom’s Best Crust that makes it all so simple. Need I say more? Yes, just this: [...]
Read More »

My Mom’s Best Pie Crust

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2013 · 53 Comments · In Stories and Recipes, Techniques
My Mom’s no-butter pie crust is heavenly…ultra flakey with a hint of salt. And the kicker: no butter! Perfectly vegan. Use the 10-inch double crust recipe for single-crust pies (more dough to work with for crimping the edges; tuck the extra under the perimeter). Everyone who knows my mother knows that the hallmark of her character [...]
Read More »

A June Menu: Lebanese Lunch Alfresco

By Maureen Abood On June 4, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Menus, Summer
There are few things we Aboods enjoy more than sitting around talking about what to cook and what to eat next. I suspect the same is true for at least some of you…. We get after it whether there’s a party to plan, a weekend dinner, or just lunch outside. Ideas fly and it’s a [...]
Read More »
Cream puff with strawberries on a pink and white vintage plate

Cream Puffs with Strawberries, for Mom

By Maureen Abood On May 10, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer
As you can imagine, exam time in culinary school can be stressful. We had three of them, and the first was in some ways the most challenging. That’s because we just didn’t know what to expect, having never taken a culinary practical exam and having watched far too many episodes of Iron Chef. The initial [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Vanilla Beans

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients
I’m a sucker for fragrant flavorings like rose water and orange blossom water. Vanilla is no less of a swoon for me, and I find its creamy, heady scent to be anything but bland. Why must we insist on calling the boring, the plain, vanilla? No more! Without vanilla, pastry would be lost, especially the [...]
Read More »
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