Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl's Top 5 Recipes To Make Your House Smell Awesome
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Talking about fragrance on Saturday's show made me think about one of the under-sung qualities of cooking—don't you love it when you open the door and it smells like cookies baking or Beef Bourguignon stewing? Everybody loves that! And to celebrate it, I put together a top-five of fun things you can do to eat well and get all that good aromatherapy up and going in the kitchen. Here are my Top 5 Recipes to make your house smell awesome!
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Ginger Lemon Hot Toddies
Recipe
Put some water and a bunch of lemon juice, ginger and rum in your crockpot—that'll warm you up after raking leaves, and the house will smell like heaven. If you want to be really fancy, add some rosewater or orange-flower water from a Middle Eastern grocery store. It's warming, delicious and makes the house smell exotic!
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe
Chocolate chip cookies smell like cooking with your mom! Right? It's a good mood smell. Everyone has a chocolate chip cookie recipe. But I love the classics. Here is the classic Nestle Tollhouse recipe from CBS.
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Bread
Recipe
Nothing will get your mouth watering quite like the smell of freshly baked bread. And friends of the show, Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg, have revolutionized the art of bread baking to make it accessible and totally manageable even for the most beginner of cooks. My little girl could make this bread when she was in kindergarten. No lie. And a show note: Tune in next week to hear Zoe talk about how to make her bread Gluten free!
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Mulled Cider
Recipe
Lots of curls of good cinnamon, some tangerine peels, a quart or two of cider — this is how to make the whole block smell good. In aromatherapy cinnamon increases awareness and concentration, and is said to just plain old bring joy. What other beverage just straight out chemically induces joy by travelling through the air? Let's hear it for mulled cider!
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Beef Bourguignon
Recipe
Weirdly, when I thought about the very best smell I like in a food, I came up with that primal thing of frying onions, and of course what's better than browning onions with bacon? And what's better than that than adding beef and wine—throw it in the crockpot and you won't want to leave your house just so you don't miss a minute of that smell. Invite your family or friends over, and have them forever associate your house with deliciousness, and therefore happiness.
