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Recipe Index

Appetizers & Side Dishes | Bread | Breakfast & Brunch
Cakes | Chocolate | Cookies | Pies & Tarts | Quickbreads | Other Yummy Desserts
Soups & Salads | Pasta, Pizza & Quiche | Poultry, Seafood & Meat | Easy Dinners
Russian | Vegetarian | The Basics

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Appetizers & Side Dishes

Braised baby artichokes with garlic, thyme and Parmesan
Best crab salad ever (no, really, it is)
Orzo with garbanzo beans, herbs and goat cheese
Sundried tomato pesto
Stuffed Eggplant
Zucchini & summer squash gratin

Bread

Bagels, plain (topped with poppy seeds}
Buttermilk honey loaf
Pain à l’ancienne baguettes
Peter Reinhart's Challah
Rustic bread
Whole wheat pizza dough

Breakfast & Brunch

Apple cinnamon crepes
Baked French toast
Best crab salad ever
Buckwheat galette
Frittata and brunch menu for eight
Honey nectarine pancakes
Mini fruit tartlets
Pomacello shots
Poppyseed bagels
Strawberry scones

Cakes

Black forest cake (chocolate sponge cake)
Cherry coffee cake
Chocolate cake with Nutella buttercream (chocolate butter cake)
Chocolate cupcakes with strawberry buttercream
Flourless chocolate cake
Guinness cupcakes with Bailey's buttercream
Mango mousse cake with lime-hinted whipped cream
Marbled butter cake
Mascarpone cherry cheesecake
Pear cake
Pumpkin spice cheesecake
Raspberry madness coffee cake
Strawberry Bavarian cake
Strawberry cream cake
Tiramisu cake
Vanilla cake with custard + raspberries & vanilla buttercream
White chocolate raspberry mousse cake

Chocolate

Anita's chocolate crinkle cookies
Black forest cake (chocolate sponge cake)
Chocolate biscotti
Chocolate cake with Nutella buttercream (chocolate butter cake)
Chocolate-covered sables
Chocolate cupcakes with strawberry buttercream
Chocolate-dipped strawberries
Chocolate Mascarpone brownies (cake-like brownies)
Flourless chocolate cake
Guinness cupcakes with Bailey's buttercream
Linzer sables with chocolate ganache
Strawberry Frangelico tart
White chocolate raspberry mousse cake
World peace cookies

Cookies

Anita's chocolate crinkle cookies
Biscotti (chocolate)
Biscotti (almond)
Biscotti (pumpkin-cranberry)
Chocolate-covered sables
Linzer sables
Madeleines (honey) <- make these
Madeleines (traditional)
Viennese shortbread cookies
World peace cookies

Pies & Tarts

Alice Waters' apple galette
Alsatian apple tart (with cream)
Apple pie
Apple tart bread
Bartlet pear tartlets
Cherry pie (sweet cherries)
Fruit tart with French pastry cream
Lemon meringue tart
Mini fruit tartlets
Strawberry tart with light pastry cream
Strawberry Frangelico tart

Quickbreads

Apple tart bread
Banana bread with cinnamon topping
Banana poppyseed muffins
Blueberry muffins
Cherry coffee cake
Chocolate Mascarpone brownies
Marbled butter cake
Pumpkin bread (butter)
Raspberry madness coffee cake
Strawberry scones

Other Yummy Desserts

Apple + ricotta tartlets
Chocolate-dipped strawberries
Cream puffs
Lemon bars
Vanilla bean creme brulee

Soups & Salads

Baby spinach, eggplant, asparagus and roasted peppers salad
Best crab salad ever
Butternut squash soup with crisp shallots
Orzo with garbanzo beans, herbs and goat cheese
Saffron tomato soup
Tomato and corn salad with basil

Pasta, Pizza & Quiche

Caramelized onions, mushroom and thyme quiche
Chez Panisse pasta with roasted eggplant
Creamy penne with mushrooms and goat cheese
Leek and Swiss Chard quiche
Orzo with garbanzo beans, herbs and goat cheese
Penne with shrimp, salmon, asparagus and sundried tomatoes
Whole wheat pizza with asparagus and purple potatoes

Poultry, Seafood & Meat

Arroz con pollo
Crab salad
Cabbage rolls
Chicken Milanese
Honey-glazed salmon + arugula salad with lemon pepper dressing
Peach khoresh (Persian stew with chicken and peaches)
Penne with shrimp, salmon, asparagus and sundried tomatoes
Tilapia with sweet balsamic bell peppers

Easy Dinners

Caramelized onions, musrhoom and thyme quiche
Chez Panisse pasta with roasted eggplant
Chicken Milanese
Leek and Swiss Chard quiche
Saffron tomato soup
Tilapia with sweet balsamic bell peppers
Whole wheat pizza with asparagus and purple potatoes

Russian

Apple + ricotta tartlets
Cabbage rolls
Crab salad
Stuffed eggplant

Vegetarian

The Basics

Travel
At home in Santa Monica
Getty Villa
Munich
Paris
Pine Mountain Lake
Salzburg
Santa Barbara wine country

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