December 2009
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Best of 2009
We’re coming up on a full year together! After registering phillyfoodie.com almost 5 years ago, I finally dusted it off and did something with it in 2009. In commemoration of my first 12 months, here are your favorite posts of the year.
First Person Arts/Foobooz Burger Cruise
Best Doughnuts: Amish Festival Doughnuts
Best Cookies: Hope’s Cookies
Preview: SquareBurger at Franklin...
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Harry & David pears
Certain foods always taste like a holiday. (Like this cake = my birthday) Harry and David pears will always taste like Christmas to me.
My grandparents would send us a case of them every Christmas. If they hadn’t arrived by the second week of December, I would start staking out the mail, and checking the crisper drawers to make sure thay I hadn’t missed their arrival. They are...
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Meringue Cookies
When Helen first mentioned that she would be leaving for several weeks and then asked if I’d mind posting several entries, I was thrilled. I decided, immediately, that I wanted to blog several different types of cookies, combining my love of baking with my loves of Christmas and blogging! This would be my opportunity to leave the safe world of chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles.
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marcie blaine chocolates @ Verde
Since my first visit shortly after Verde opened, marcie blaine chocolates has been experimenting the pants off chocolate! The flavors very widely almost every time I buy them, and the downright strangest chocolate I’ve had in recent memory came from their kitchen. They have also hit upon some of my new most favorite flavors. For you, dear readers, I made the sacrifice of tasting all...
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Cheese tasting at Quince
Oh, cheese, how I love you so! I was so excited to discover Madame Fromage, a Philadelphian blogging all about cheese, and I was thrilled when she said she would be organizing monthly cheese tastings at Quince Fine Foods in Northern Liberties.
I find cheese tastings delightful. An expert takes the time to select a menu of cheeses that will work together, pairs them with spreads and...
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Chocolate covered pretzels
Some people make Christmas cookies. I make chocolate covered pretzels. My great aunt Helen would send us a tin of chocolate covered pretzels every year, and I will forever associate them with Christmas. Plus, they are insanely easy to make!
The 3 things you need to make chocolate covered pretzels: chocolate, pretzels and wax paper. Do not forget about the wax paper, or you will be eating...
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Apple Crisp
When my mom offered to host Thanksgiving, I asked what desserts she’d like me to bring. Her answer? “Pumpkin pie and that apple dessert you made two years ago, the one I’ve asked you to make four times since then.” What she didn’t say, but she and I both heard was, “And which you never made even though I asked you to serve it for Nathan’s first...
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Clementines, the ideal fruit
The following was prompted by a lengthy discussion 12 years ago on the ideal fruit. Not your favorite. Not the tastiest. The most ideal. Now presented in its entirety, the document formerly known as “the clementine manifesto”.
They taste good. They are sweet, and you rarely get bad ones. They are good at satisfying both hunger and thirst. While clearly food, clementines are...
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Tenth Street Pourhouse
Back in my 13th and Locust days, the Tenth Street Pourhouse was one of my favorite brunch spots. Since I have begun railing against the hour-long-brunch-wait, I thought I would stop by one of my old haunts to see how it was doing.
I had a disappointing experience at my last favorite pancake place, which has put me on the hunt for a new favorite pancake. Cybélè has told me that Aunt Jemima...