This week's Resolution Recipe: Small-Batch Biscuits.
"With just five ingredients and ten minutes of prep time, you can have two golden, tender biscuits ready in time for breakfast."

America's Test Kitchen delved into making fruit cobbler some time ago - their conclusion was that it is impossible to get a consistent bake on the biscuit topping when it is on the fruit; the underside always is doughy. (Confirmed with experience, although I usually don't mind.) Their suggestion was to make deconstructed cobbler, with baked fruit cooked separately and topped with a biscuit. That's what we did here - we each had a small Pyrex pan of cooked apricot/sugar/cinnamon, with a split biscuit on top. It was lovely... but I will take apricot cobbler in pretty much any form during the season.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Turkey and Bean Tamale Pie.
"A tamale pie has little to do with an actual Latin American tamale. But the dish is retro comfort food you wax nostalgic for whether it was part of your childhood or not."
( It was not part of mine... nevertheless )

This week's Resolution Recipe: Sourdough Discard Lemon Crinkle Cookies.
Ten internet points if you correctly identify the title reference. Hint: Not my usual cup of tea.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Cranberry-Rosemary Breakfast Pudding.
"Your kitchen will smell like French toast when you pull this sweet, custardy casserole from the oven. This creative combination of tart cranberries and piquant rosemary makes an ideal holiday breakfast."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Chocolate Snaps.
I had a recipe from my childhood that I was very fond of, and wanted to make again. Unfortunately it did not go well as it called for margarine - which has been substantially reformulated, and the recipe no longer works.

I threw that one away and made a new batch after a quick web search. Yields ~3 dozen.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Spinach-Cheese Bake.
"The hearty, protein-packed dish works as a vegetarian main course or an egg-forward brunch dish."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Shortcake Biscuits.
"Like many overachievers, for too long I clung to the belief that the hard way is the best way. Twaddle. These biscuits are the opposite of fussy - no cutting in of butter, no painstaking flouring and folding. Since the fat in cream and butter is essentially the same, the full flavor remains.

"Despite the recipe's simplicity, the results are tender, flaky, and rich. No one need know you took the easy way out. This streamlined style is known as a cream biscuit, a cousin of the scone and the shortcake."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Farinata.
Apparently this chickpea pancake is known as "farinata" in northern Italy and "socca" in southern France. I previously made a socca recipe, but this is a different recipe, so it still counts.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Meyer Lemon Poppy Seed Cake.
I have a soft spot in my head for lemon poppy seed cake, having grown up with it. I have tried a number of variations but usually go back to something approximating my childhood's version (because that tastes "right").
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Mushroom-Salmon Pie.
This came from a Seattle cookbook that a friend gave me as a thank you for helping cook her wedding reception. I don't use it very often and wanted to change that.
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