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THE COLLECTION OF BAKED GOODS
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Marguerite Yeo
Jul 30, 20221 min read
Baked potatoes
I’m hosting Super Tok this evening. In addition to the addictive peanut butter cups I made for dessert, I also made a starter of baked...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jul 23, 20221 min read
Better than Reese’s?
Some people have expressed shock that I’ve never had Reese’s peanut butter cups. I don’t know why but I’ve never had the urge to try...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jul 16, 20221 min read
Baking for tea-time
Barbara, my friend and neighbor, invited me to tea. I woke up this morning and decided I’d bake a light cake to bring to tea, and found...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jul 9, 20221 min read
Game day snack
Today is Super Tok game night and my snack contribution is this organic date brownies with walnuts, espresso, and ground black pepper....
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Buy local
A neighbor in Madrona (a neighborhood next to mine in Seattle) owns a small farm in Yakima and supplies to vendors in Pike Place market....
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Too hot to bake
Seattleites are hard to please….we complain about the rain and we complain it’s too hot. Temperatures in the 80s is a tad too hot for us...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Fancy name
Before I got into baking, I had no idea what crème fraîche was other than it was some sort of cream. Then I learned that it’s similar to...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 18, 20221 min read
Tea cake ….for real
I’ve made tea cakes without tea in them. This tea cake has Asam and Masala Chai tea in it. How about that? I don’t know how I came across...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 18, 20221 min read
An apple a day…
Keeps the doctor away. I made pine syrup from the pine tips I picked on Lummi Island last weekend. I made a cocktail out of the syrup but...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Sorbet season
I collected two handfuls of blackcurrant leaves at Nettles Farm on Lummi Island this past weekend. I’ve used the leaves to flavor my...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 12, 20222 min read
A unique weekend
I gave myself a long weekend that started on Thursday and ended on Sunday when I signed up for the ’Wild foods of the Salish sea’ event...
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Marguerite Yeo
Jun 4, 20221 min read
A local favorite
A colleague of mine is planning a trip to Singapore and asked me for food recommendations. As I went through a list of my personal local...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 29, 20221 min read
No baking, just watermelons
In the spirit of the long Memorial Day weekend, I decided to have some light and refreshing treats around the house. There’s no baking...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 28, 20221 min read
Another party, another dessert
We have another party tomorrow and my contribution is this chocolate mousse with chocolate stout and espresso powder, topped with...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 22, 20221 min read
Wine and cheese snack
We’ve had an unseasonally cold Spring but this weekend has been sunny and warm. Yesterday I walked to lunch in Madrona, explored Madrona...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 20, 20221 min read
When your stomach calls
I was doing yoga this Friday evening when I suddenly had hunger pangs. It was quite bad and I wasn’t able to focus on yoga. I was also...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 8, 20221 min read
Leftover buttermilk
Buttermilk has a notoriously short shelf-life and I hate wasting stuff, so after making crêpes with buttermilk, I moved on to make...
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Marguerite Yeo
May 8, 20221 min read
A light afternoon snack
I had leftover buttermilk so I decided to make one of my favorite snacks - crêpe. I also have homemade apple butter and lemon curd, and...
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Marguerite Yeo
Apr 2, 20221 min read
A celebration cake
Maneki, the oldest Japanese restaurant in Seattle is finally opened for dine-in again. Although Jean (the owner of Maneki) gave me...
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Marguerite Yeo
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Confluence of flavors
I rarely follow baking recipes to a T because I prefer to use less sugar and I like to experiment with flavors. I‘ve always wanted to try...
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