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Soup dumplings, etc.

Soup Dumplings

*Our December classes wrapped up this week with a giant dumpling-fest last night. You'll be happy to know that you can, in fact, make soup dumplings at home fairly easily, once you know the answer to the all important question: how you get soup into a dumpling in the first place.  

So what's the secret? The broth's not frozen first, and it's not injected, it's all due to good old gelatin. Add some to your cooked...

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How To Survive Winter

December classes started this week, and now that It's actually possibly too cold to leave the house anymore, here are a couple recipes for things we covered to keep you full and hydrated until March. 

Since you still need to eat, what better to do the trick than the hearty, portable pot pie from Cornwall that used to be lunch for the region's many miners - the pasty (it's a short a). It's that thing in the photo up above, and, I think,...

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December Classes Open for Registration!

First up, we've got three new classes starting in the next couple of weeks. We're keeping them all on the small side, so sign up fast and check out the course descriptions for all the details. 

World Dumplings - Three weeks of pierogis, empanadas, and every other filled foodstuff you can think of. Sign up for one session or all three!

Hot Drinks - from hot chocolate to hot toddies, everything you need to survive until...

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Happy Thanksgiving (+ a tart recipe)

It's Thanksgiving! What better thing to encompass all that Thanksgiving is about (butter, winter squash, alcohol) than the awesome tarts below, made by Emily Beebe for our holiday food workshop last week. She's got a blog with lots more recipes, but seriously, these are amazing.

Butternut Squash With Brown Sugar Bourbon Glaze & Salted Butter Pecans

First, the dough:

Tart Dough

1 ¼ C Flour
1 Tbsp + 2 Tsp Corn Starch
¼ Tsp Salt...

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We Do The Hard Work: All You Want For Christmas

Every year you hit the same problem: what to buy absolutely anyone for Christmas. Video games, perfumes, books - it's all the same to you. You don't know a lick about their newfangled PS 360's, find vanilla undertones and vanilla wafers indistinguishable, and you're fairly certain a Bernard Shaw is a sandwich at Dean & Deluca. Don't think you're doomed to a department store sweater, though, we have the answer:

All...

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