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My fascination with pomegranates started with the bowls of pomegranate arils I enjoyed as a snack when I was little and grows with each recipe I develop. Over the years, I must have cut, seeded, ...

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Would you believe me if I say that my favorite recipe in The Artful Baker doesn’t have chocolate or caramel in it? It isn’t one of the many ice cream recipes either. I can almost hear you gas...

http://cafefernando.com/pineapple-and-coconut-upside-down-cake/

It is rare that I manage to publish a recipe for a fruit dessert before the fruit’s season is over. Almost always, by the time I’m done with the recipe testing, the photos, and the headnote, ...

http://cafefernando.com/strawberry-white-chocolate-and-yogurt-tart/

Pomegranate molasses, which is made by reducing freshly-squeezed pomegranate juice into a thick, sour and sticky syrup, isn’t really molasses. It is simply reduced pomegranate juice. And if you...

http://cafefernando.com/homemade-pomegranate-molasses/

Thank God I can bake. Because otherwise, after seeing what I saw, I would have just died. Since you’re reading a food blog, you must have come across the Chez Panisse 40th anniversary photos. A...

http://cafefernando.com/plum-galette/

If I had a dollar for every post I postponed posting… Well, that would make me a professional procrastinator and nothing else. Here’s what usually happens: I get excited about a fruit or a ve...

http://cafefernando.com/apricot-bars/

I made up something called a Monday Morning Syndrome Cake a while ago. It is basically a cake that you bake on a Sunday night, which helps you to survive the cubicle cabin fever on the first work...

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My father has the strictest morning routine I have ever seen. He wakes up at 6:30 AM, goes for a 45-minute walk, takes a shower, eats his breakfast and he’s on his way to work at 8:00 AM sharp....

http://cafefernando.com/vegan-strawberry-smoothie/

You really didn’t think I was done with pomegranates, did you? I am amazed to hear how scarce this amazing fruit is in other parts of the world. A Turkish reader living in Germany said a pomegr...

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With summer fruit at its best, there has never been a better time to bake all kinds of stone fruit encased in a buttery flaky dough. Although you can prepare a galette with any fruit you’d like...

http://cafefernando.com/apricot-cherry-galette/