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Vanilla Fragrant Salts
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These are meant for the bath but I use them as a room scent and ambience item.
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Vanilla Shortbread Mix in a Jar
Mix it, jar it, seal it with a ribbon and a card and add in some nice cookie cutters or a heart of thistle shortbread clay mold.
Vanilla Sugar Crusted Scones
Flecks of vanilla and vanilla extract both, enhance these flaky scones. Rolling the scones on sugar, rather than flour, accounts for their flaky pastry taste. Kosher salt is more subtle...
Vanilla Swirl Buttermilk Pound Cake
Vanilla bean paste is available from specialty stores or via mail order (i.e. Williams-Sonoma). It makes this cake sublime.
Vanilla-Glazed Blackberry Apple Muffins
Bursts of fresh blackberries and tart apples are all tucked into a vanilla batter that takes both a streusel and then is drizzled with fontant. Semi-freeze the berries before tossing...
Vegetarian Black Bean Chilli
This uses tofu ‘ground meat’ which you can get in mainstream grocery stores as well as health food stores of course. It looks like browned hamburger. I pop it in...
Vegetarian Chopped Liver
This tastes remarkably like the real thing. It is inspired from the kosher kitchen but it is an appetizer (or sandwich filling) that suits vegetarians too (or kosher vegetarians or those wanted a...
Vegetarian Smokey Black Bean Soup
A hearty soup that is full-bodied and yet vegetarian. This soup takes well to different seasonings but it shines with a smoky accent, cilantro and cumin. Serve with hard rolls...
Venetian Fruit Cake
James Beard was very fond of this cornmeal and dried fruit cake which is a sophisticated and beautiful holiday cake. I’ve updated the dried fruit – nixing the currants and...
Vermont Cheddar Cheese Bread
A shipment of Cabot’s fine sharp white cheddar cheese arrived, as a holiday gift to our test kitchen. Oh the glorious things great cheddar cheese can be baked into. This...