Cream soup with sweet red pepper

After spending so many of my vacations (basically all of them the past several years) with my friend and almost sister Catherine, I have picked up not a little of her cooking. This simple...
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Artichoke with vinaigrette

Per person: 1 large artichoke 1/2 lemon (juice of half a lemon; 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons) 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon mustard - I like the grainy kind, but you can use whatever...
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New York cheesecake

After days of deliberation, I arrived at a serious decision: This would be The Cake for my birthday party. The Cake is a New York cheesecake, adapted from Smitten Kitchen's New...
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Tapenade with black olives and figs

Tapenade is one of those things I always gazed at longingly - in fancy cafes and grocery stores in small expensive jars, it seems to promise a wealth of complex flavors and an addictive...
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Fig challah

Because the wind is howling and it's raining... because it feels like autumn in Russia... because there's nothing as cheerful as the smell of freshly baking bread - you should make this today. You...
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