Posted in cookies, dessert, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 31st, 2009
There was some confusion among the Tuesdays with Dorie group about this recipe. Are the cookies supposed to retain their shape as they’re baked, like a classic shortbread cookie? Or are they supposed to become thin, as the title implies, and wafery and lacy, as Dorie describes them? I think it’s clear what side of [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, citrus, fruit, quick bread on Mar 29th, 2009
Over the last week, I’ve invested a considerable amount of time, plus some money, into my blog to make it look…well, pretty much the same. Plus, I’m guessing most of you read my blog through Google Reader or something similar and never actually see the design. Be that as it may, there are a couple [...]
Posted in breakfast, cake, dessert, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 23rd, 2009
Dave and I decided to walk 1000 miles this year. It works out to about 20 miles per week, just under 3 miles per day. It’s an ambitious goal, but not unattainable. The problem is, we’re way behind. By the end of February, we were already half a month’s worth of miles behind where we [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, nuts, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 21st, 2009
So what exactly is the difference between a biscuit and a scone? It seems to me that scones are just sweet biscuits. I’ve been going through a scone phase the last few months, making batches and freezing them unbaked. It makes for a great weekend breakfast, because there’s basically no work to do. Plus I [...]
Posted in beef, bread, sandwiches, yeast bread on Mar 20th, 2009
Last week I was at the grocery store with my parents, trying to choose a dessert to bring home to share. My dad wanted strawberry cake, and my mom wanted German chocolate cake. I wasn’t going to get in the middle of this, and honestly, I don’t know why my dad even offers his opinion. [...]
Posted in cake, citrus, dessert, french, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 17th, 2009
While shopping for baking ingredients recently, I was inwardly complaining about recipes that call for a volume amount of ground nuts. I’ve never been able to find ground nuts in my well-stocked grocery store. That means that I have to grind my own, which is annoying because my food processor takes up basically my whole [...]
Posted in cheese, chicken, italian, pizza, vegetables on Mar 14th, 2009
I hardly ever cook large roasts of meat, but when I do, I find like I like the leftovers even more than the original meal. I had lots of fun after Thanksgiving, and found that pot roast makes an amazing soup and sandwich. And roast chicken, to be honest, hardly ever impresses me served plain [...]
Posted in bread, vegetables, yeast bread on Mar 12th, 2009
Someone asked me recently if I save posts for certain times when I think they’ll be more popular. I said that I didn’t; I just post when I have something ready, although I usually have a bit of a queue to choose from. But then I realized that I had just made green bread, and [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, gluten free, healthy, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 10th, 2009
Well, I didn’t intend to choose an unpopular dessert for Tuesdays with Dorie this week. I was picturing a satiny, lemony pots de crème-type custard. Obviously I didn’t pay enough attention to the ingredients, which, with just milk, whole eggs, lemon zest, and sugar, in no way indicate that this custard would be rich. Sorry, [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, citrus, fruit, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 7th, 2009
I ran a little test with these muffins. I read somewhere, at some point, that it’s best to grease just the bottom of muffin cups and not the sides. But not all recipes specify this, so I’ve never known how important it is. This muffin recipe, which was made by Tuesdays with Dorie before I [...]
