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Madelines on TWD Our Secret Ingredients
Mrs. Rabbit's Brown Bread on The Kitchn
Crocodile Bread on Slashfood
Peruvian Peanut Potatoes on Cookthink's Root Source: Peanut Butter
Apple Pie Cake on Slashfood
Top Shot and Reader's Choice on Snackfoods: Potato
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SHF – Wine Cake

I was incredibly pleased when my sister called about a week ago to inform me that she had bought a few more baking pans and would be attempting a batch of brownies (from a box). Just days before I had rearranged things in her small apartment kitchen. She told me the flour was the same [...]

Queque de Limon

One of my favorite morning memories is a grande cafe americano with a lemon scone and a good book. The lemon scone has a sweetness that is perfectly balanced by the coffee and has never been matched by any other coffee shop. But when I saw the Peruvian lime cake by Astrid, one of the [...]

SHF – Peanut Manjar Balls

Visiting others in their homes is an important part of friendship and relationship here in Peru, and maybe much of Latin America. It is not uncommon to have people drop by for a few minutes or a few hours. Typically I have something freshly baked to offer and occasionally I have to run down to [...]

SHF – Pumpkin Cake

For the first time this ever, I roasted pumpkins. It was a fun process to break the pumpkin open and scrape out the seeds with plans to roast them. I found the pulp to be rather dry, not overly “wet” as my friends had told me they would be. I roasted them open side up [...]

My Version of Caramel Apples

I love seeing what is available in other places that may not always be available here in Lima. (Or at least not where I know to look for it!) My suitcases become laden with cooking items and at times, I don’t know how I will be able to fit everything in! Mind you, the last [...]