Only two days left . . .

Menu for Hope ends this Friday, December 21, so you have two days to bid on the G3 prize — a cookbook and spices from eve – the restaurant, smoked salmon from Tracklements, and a gift certificate from everyday wine/everyday cook.
Reports from the field suggest that the donation process needs a bit more explaining, so [...]

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Give the People What They Want: Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

A little over a year ago,* I tempted you with a tantalizing description of these brown-black beauties, the Williams Sonoma Chocolate Crinkle Cookie. I wrapped it up in a tale about how I hadn’t been able to cook in my kitchen, due to a nasty roommate situation, which was a rather lame thing for [...]

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Menu for Hope: A Taste of Ann Arbor (UC18)

The Fourth Annual Menu For Hope, a fundraising event conceived of and organized by the marvelous food blogger Pim is now underway, and Gastronomical Three invites you to participate. For a mere ten dollars you buy the chance of winning a wonderful AA food prize. Or take a chance on any of the [...]

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Beyond Zingerman’s: Holiday Gift Shopping in Ann Arbor, For Those Who Love to Cook and Eat

Don’t let the title of this post mislead you. All (gastronomical) three of us are fans of the big Z and feel extraordinarily lucky to have it in our town. We all put in our time on the cheese line, exasperated with the crowds, sometimes more exasperated with being educated by the uber-friendly staff, but [...]

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More, please

Well, that certainly didn’t last long.
Yep, I’m (half-) sorry to report that my post-holiday plan to eat more modestly was scuttled the other day, when this chocolate bread pudding popped out of my oven.

I had really good excuses for baking up this dessert, like:

When the temperature dips down to teeth-chattering levels, my drafty apartment feels [...]

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