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Everybody loves a clone
For some reason we keep encountering cloned dishes. Our marketplace spotlight in the 03.27.20 Salon was a entire book of them, Todd Wilbur’s “Top Secret Recipes/Step by Step.” Then it was Food Network Magazine’s take on Panera’s loaded baked potato soup, our featured recipe in the 04.24.20 Salon.
Now a fabulous book by Stella Parks, whose resume includes honors as one of Food & Wine’s Best New Pastry Chefs, 
serves up a whole section of clones in her big book, “Bravetart.” Think such proprietary names as Animal Crackers, Fig Newtons, Oreos, Fudge Stripes, Twinkies, Thin Mints and more.
And in our 05.01.20 Salon, we “borrowed” her chocolate topping {see below} for those famous filled cupcakes to drizzle over the featured Cookies and Cream Bread Pudding. This week we intended to again take out another loan, you might say, loading up store-bought chocolate wafers with Parks’ cloned Oreo® filling – but, no wafers.
No worries, you can see the finished product right on the cover of her book, and the filling recipe is linked below. Of course for the full experience you’d want to make her version of the cookies too.
So many long time American classics here – in fact Parks says most of them date back more than a hundred years, and she brings it all further to life with what she calls origin stories as well as vintage ads. Think pies, cakes, cookies, puddings, donuts – classics! – cherry pie, “no fuss” apple pie, “no Stress” all butter pastry crust, no-cook lemon syrup, Boston cream pie, lots of old fashioned cakes.
Next week: saucy, spicy, savory Cajun shrimp from Guy Fieri’s “DDD” book
Homemde Oreo® filling on our recipe page ♦ “Bravetart” on Amazon, 5 stars
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♦ The cookbook mentioned in conjunction with our featured recipe above could serve as a rewarding way to spend this extra time at home for folks who love baking. The recipes come from an acclaimed baker, and as such really tap into the joys of deep-diving into scratch baking, including relevant ingredients and equipment notes. In the intro, food columnist Kenji Lopez-Alt calls the calls the dishes a “balance between comfort and quality” and compares them to the best treats of our childhood, but “better, because you’re an adult now and nobody’s gonna tell you how much frosting to put on those cakes.”
♦ So, about Stella Parks’ chocolate sauce. Thankfully, quite easy. You can see for yourself on our recipe page. Note that though the whipped cream is listed with the sauce ingredients, it’s actually for the filling.
♦ We’ve referenced Eat This Not That previously in our Salon, and this time on msn.com they offer up this timely slide show, “120 Best-Ever Comfort Food Recipes.” I’ll be honest here, I had no intention of going through all
120 but yikes so much good stuff I ended up doing exactly that. Here are just a few – Sunday roast chicken, chicken pot pie, poor man’s steak with onion and mushrooms plus garlic gravy, slow roasted pork shoulder, gussied up grilled cheese, the Elvis sandwich, grilled Mexican style corn {shown}, honey roasted carrots, blueberry peach cobbler, best fudgy brownies. You can bet some of these will magically appear as our Featured Recipes.
♦ While it”s so wonderful to see communities step up to fill the void left by closed schools and the loss of those meals for kids that depend on them, apparently that’s not the case everywhere. No Kid Hungry, a Share Our Strength program that I’v seen supported by chefs at national events, says they have a plan to find new ways to feed these children. If you are fortunate enough to be able to help, please visit their site here. See their ratings here.
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Chilaquiles recipe, something I’ve had and enjoyed in restaurants.
wondering if their photo doesn’t also show some pinto beans too, which sure couldn’t hurt.
But here’s the thing. The first sentence actually was, “When it’s March and it’s blizzarding, times are truly bleak. And the full final sentence was, Here, the 25 things you’ll definitely want to eat while snowed in.” While much of the country is likely not snowed in, some of the country is in, and comfort food is ever so welcome.
the honey chipotle steak hot dip. And even goes sweet with bean spice cake, brownie truffle bites and chocolate fudge cookies. These treats on the 
AllRecipes offers a way to turn jelly sandwiches into jelly donuts. What fun! If you do use the link below and go onto their site, you might also want look into their jelly donut cupcakes.
But after tracking it down, I discovered that the “Disney Parks Blog” has been publishing its recipes for quite some time. You can find the cookie fries there too, which actually are clever cookie “bakes” that look like fries.
the spotlight with chocolate sandwich cookies along with extra vanilla and {fair warning} a whole lot of half and half. The topping only makes this rich dessert . . . richer.
produce is simply with running water, and maybe a clean brush for items with sturdy exteriors. And they further specifically advise against soap or other household cleaning products. Did not see anything one way or the other about vinegar. Here are two of the articles I found that cite entities we should be able to trust.