Author: Caterina Borg, Good Food Gourmet
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The Many Uses For Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate ganache is a very rich and creamy mixture of chocolate and cream that has many different uses. You can use it as a filling for cakes, fill chocolate shells to make truffles or roll the filling itself into truffles and dip into cocoa powder, or you can use it to make chocolate pate or…
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Chicken Pot ‘Hand’ Pies
One of the favorite and most loved snack type foods in Australia are meat pies. Growing up in Melbourne, I remember ordering lunch at school by putting my money into a brown paper bag and writing my order on the front. Almost always, my lunch order was a pie. The simplicity of this very versatile meal brings…
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Chocolate Pudding Cake
Happy First Birthday Good Food Gourmet! It was a cold and very snowy day last year when I launched GFG. Little did I know that my first post would mark one of the most memorable days Marylanders had ever seen. On this day one year ago, our fair city was paralyzed with over 45 inches…
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What a Pretzel
In my younger days, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels had just opened up as a novelty store in Ocean City, Maryland. Every Summer my friends and I would spend several weekends at the beach consuming our annual supply of those soft, doughy pretzels. It became like an annual pilgrimage, since that was the only location in the…
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Fabulous Triple Chocolate Brownies
This week, I have been preparing the menu for some friends who will be coming over for the big game on Sunday. Of course, the food has to be center stage but the desserts and snacks need to be equally delicious. I am planning to make a batch of those delicious union square nuts, sweet…
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Bacon Cheddar Scones
I’m an early riser and I have always loved the peacefulness of the morning. During the Summer, I mostly enjoy a bowl of mixed fruit and yogurt for breakfast, something just enough to get me going but not anything that will weigh me down as the heat begins to peak through the veil of the…
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Mock Seafood Stew
When I started making this stew yesterday, my friend said, “this might sound like a dumb question, but if you are using seafood, why are you calling it ‘mock’ seafood stew’…. ” It’s true that I had small quantities of many different things that were just taking up space in my freezer and just weren’t…
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One Delicious Berliner Donut
I am a sucker for a good donut…but then again, I don’t know of too many people who aren’t. Berliner donuts are actually known as Berliner Pfannkuchen, kräppel or fastnachtskuchelchen in Germany, but also go by many other names such as Krapfen (Austria), Bismarck (Canada), Sufganiyah (Israel), kobliha (Czech Republic), Paczki (Poland) and Fánk (Hungary) but…
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Game Day Homemade Pizza
I came across this great pizza dough in my Baking Illustrated Cookbook. These are the same people who print Cook’s Illustrated Magazine and produce the sister show called Cook’s Country. I am a huge fan of the show because I identify with many of the issues the staff go through in developing the recipes that…
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Greek Egg Lemon Soup (Avgolemono)
This is a dish we often made at home because of its heartiness and simplicity. My dad would pile all of the ingredients for the chicken stock into a huge pot and let it slowly simmer until the chicken broth had reduced by half. The intense flavor is derived from the slow reduction of liquid and…
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Glorious Semifreddo
I have a confession to make…ok, are you ready? Here goes… I don’t own and ice cream maker. You may ask yourself why a seasoned Pastry Chef finds herself in this predicament, and my answer simply is that I own so many cooking gizmos and gadgets that I just never got around to buying one.…