cooking Archive

  • Carrot Cake Jam

    Carrot Cake Jam

    My Ph.D. exams are over, and now I have a desperate need to ground myself in the experience of my everyday life again. Exams, for instance, require that all attention is paid to the content of study. I have a hard time balancing that impulse...

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  • Trauman’s Chocolate No-bake Cookies

    Trauman’s Chocolate No-bake Cookies

    Here’s one of my comfort food recipes from my childhood. Totally representative of the cooking philosophy in our house: simple, fast, cheap, standard cookware, common ingredients, less than healthy. So, it’s perfect for a graduate student. Perfect for a bachelor. Perfect if you’re in a...

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  • Bread for breaking with my Brother

    Bread for breaking with my Brother

    I’ll be spending Thanksgiving at my brother’s house (twenty miles away in Crestwood, KY) and I wanted to share with you all a recipe that I’ve been making for the last ten years: challah. Not only do I love the taste, but I also love...

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