Memoir/Meme/Misc. : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

Inspired by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton's addictive daily blog, Canal House Cooks Lunch, here's what I ate for lunch today: Mom's köfte (meatballs - or shall I say mini patties?), her zeytinyağlı barbunya (cranberry beans braised in olive oil together with tomatoes, garlic and onions), her pickled beets, my jasmine rice and a handful of fresh cilantro.

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Do you remember the brownies I baked for Dolce & Gabbana? The one layered with velvety hazelnut butter and topped with a delicate chocolate lace... Brownies with Hazelnut Butter and Chocolate Lace (aka Brownie Wears Lace) is nominated by Saveur magazine in their Best Food Blog Awards 2011 in the "Best Original Baking and Desserts Recipe" category. Thank you Saveur! It is a great honor to be recognized, ...

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I am proud to introduce Cafe Fernando's new iPad application! This one is a bit different than the iPhone version. The iPad application comes with two packages. The first one, called "Best of Cafe Fernando" is free of charge and consists of the most popular recipes from the archive, including the Devil's Food Cake, Momofuku Milk Bar's Cereal Milk Ice Cream, L'Orange, Brownies My Way, Hazelnut Butter and Chocolate ...

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I am proud to introduce Cafe Fernando's new iPhone application! Almost the entire Cafe Fernando recipe archive is included in the application, as well as a few new recipes - all together with photos. The application also has a very cool "Shopping Cart" feature that transfers the list of ingredients for any given recipe into the shopping cart, so you can see what you need to buy as ...

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New Year's Eve Dinner Party at The Mansion (my friends' place) has been a tradition for over ten years now. I have had the pleasure of sharing this feast with my dearest friends for quite some time and have been sharing photos from the dinner table for the last three years. After all these years, I can't even imagine being somewhere else on New Year's Eve. A huge, ...

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