What recipes or tips from DCUM have you actually tried?

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roasted beets recipes
and I think I tried a wine someone said was good

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on one of the recent Christmas threads posted this recipe for gingerbread sticky toffee pudding: https://www.latimes.com/food/la-xpm-2012-dec-22-la-fo-sos-sticky-toffee-gingerbread-20121222-story.html

I made it for Christmas and thought it was excellent, though most of my family preferred our usual orange cheesecake, probably just because they are more familiar with it.

Just to confirm, sis, your family loved the gingerbread sticky toffee pudding but you should post the orange cheesecake recipe because it is unlike all other cheesecake recipes and somehow manages to be some sublime mix of orange mousse and cheesecake!!! And getting a bit of the pudding and the cheesecake on the same fork was definitely larger than the sum of its parts.

wait, is this really PP's family member?

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT blueberry muffin recipe late last year. Very good!

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It was a lot of work for muffins and pretty cakey. Next time I'll use up blueberries in a cobbler.

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Bon Appetite chocolate chip cookie recipe with browned butter - they were amazing!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on one of the recent Christmas threads posted this recipe for gingerbread sticky toffee pudding: https://www.latimes.com/food/la-xpm-2012-dec-22-la-fo-sos-sticky-toffee-gingerbread-20121222-story.html

I made it for Christmas and thought it was excellent, though most of my family preferred our usual orange cheesecake, probably just because they are more familiar with it.

Just to confirm, sis, your family loved the gingerbread sticky toffee pudding but you should post the orange cheesecake recipe because it is unlike all other cheesecake recipes and somehow manages to be some sublime mix of orange mousse and cheesecake!!! And getting a bit of the pudding and the cheesecake on the same fork was definitely larger than the sum of its parts.

wait, is this really PP's family member?

Yes. My kids and husband do literally start wondering about the orange cheesecake around Thanksgiving when we travel to DC for Christmas with my sister. It is pretty amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on one of the recent Christmas threads posted this recipe for gingerbread sticky toffee pudding: https://www.latimes.com/food/la-xpm-2012-dec-22-la-fo-sos-sticky-toffee-gingerbread-20121222-story.html

I made it for Christmas and thought it was excellent, though most of my family preferred our usual orange cheesecake, probably just because they are more familiar with it.

ha, that was me! Glad you enjoyed it! Ironically I was just thinking to myself it's time to retire it and I had the thought to move on to a cheesecake.

Thank you so much for posting it! I really thought it was lovely, especially given that there was enough leftover toffee sauce for ice cream later in the week. I made a special trip to Balduccis for the apple butter, and think that was definitely worth it.

Not sure if it is actually my sister (who did travel to the DMV with her family for the holidays this year) asking for the cheesecake recipe, or if we have some bizarro world doppelgängers, but here’s the recipe: https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/blue-ribbon-orange-cheesecake

You can find it on Pinterest topped with whipped cream and chocolate, but that’s not right. It should be topped with the very finely grated peel from two oranges mixed with a tablespoon of sugar.

[Anonymous]

La Madeleine tomato soup during that big snowstorm a few years ago.

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Someone suggested Mu Shu for an excess of cabbage and we’ve put it in the regular rotation. Bonus that my kids eat so many veggies in one sitting.

[Anonymous]

Using Virginia country ham in lieu of pancetta or guanicale for carbonara. It's fabulous.

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I made rugelach for the first time on the suggestion of DCUM and it is amazing (absolutely true that it is so much better when fresh).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lady asking to critique her menu for DH's CEO dinner said she was making a salad that sounded good, so I made it for dinner 2 nights ago and my DH asked me what inspired this combo of ingredients ha. I couldn't bring myself to admit DCUM. He asked for it to go into dinner rotation, though!

What is it?

She said sharp cheddar, pistachios, apples with a mustard vinaigrette. I did it over mixed greens and added roasted squash.

I just made it with a balsamic vinaigrette—what a great combination! Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

Jerusalem cookbook

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Anonymous wrote:Using Virginia country ham in lieu of pancetta or guanicale for carbonara. It's fabulous.

Hah! That was mine! Love it.

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Got this from a thread on dinner party recipes - a total hit with two different groups of friends! https://food52.com/recipes/78135-fennel-rubbed-roasted-pork-shoulder-with-white-beans-herb-oil

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Anonymous wrote:Got this from a thread on dinner party recipes - a total hit with two different groups of friends! https://food52.com/recipes/78135-fennel-rubbed-roasted-pork-shoulder-with-white-beans-herb-oil

Ha! this is me too (I am also the gingerbread sticky toffee pudding lady). Glad you enjoyed!