Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, nuts, pie, summer, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 16th, 2010
Chocolate and raspberry was my favorite flavor combination for a long time. It’s still up there for sure, but I’ve tried so many desserts recently that I’ve found all kinds of other great pairs – orange and vanilla, peaches and amaretto, cream cheese and anything. There’s no need to play favorites, but I [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 16th, 2010
Before I joined Tuesdays with Dorie, I baked chocolate chip cookies a couple times a month. They were my standard weeknight dessert; I’d eat dinner early and then by the time I was ready to drink my evening tea, I was hungry for a dessert, and a cookie or two was just the right [...]
Posted in chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 9th, 2010
You can laugh, based on years on my often-but-not-always-positive critiques of Dorie’s recipes, but I actually think I’m pretty open-minded about desserts. For example, I definitely already have a favorite brownie recipe. It’s evenly balanced between cakey and fudgy, which is exactly how I like my brownies. When one report after another [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 1st, 2010
It’s a lobster!!! Get your mind out of the gutter.
I’ve come full circle on milk chocolate. As a kid, like most of us I think, I didn’t like dark chocolate at all. Ew, too bitter! Recently, I’ve felt the opposite. Milk chocolate was too sweet – where’s the chocolate flavor?
But now [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 25th, 2010
I made these, oh, a year and a half ago. And the file’s just been sitting around waiting for someone to choose them for Tuesdays with Dorie. Actually, it was the first recipe I ever made from Dorie Greenspan that was not specifically for TWD. I had told myself that I would only [...]
Dave lucked out this year when his annual birthday pie didn’t come out quite right. Because then I made another one, and then when that one wasn’t perfect either, I made another one.
The recipe is Tartine’s, and as usual, they take a classic and kick it up a notch. Their banana cream pie [...]
Posted in candy, chocolate, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 19th, 2010
The worst part of not loving the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe for the week is having to tell everyone about it. Not only do I feel like a Negative Nellie, but the flood of “sorry you didn’t like it!” comments starts, and, honestly, it isn’t such a big deal. There are many worse [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 5th, 2010
I’m crossing my fingers that I don’t have high altitude problems with my baking now that I live at just over 3000 feet. It’s right at the margin of where some cookbooks recommend making adjustments. I conducted one little test, comparing chocolate chip cookies made at sea level with the same recipe made at 3000 [...]
Posted in chocolate, dessert, nuts, pie, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Dec 29th, 2009
Conversations from this Christmas:
Me: I was thinking we could all go to the botanical garden’s light show like we did a couple years ago.
My sister: Oh yeah, we did that last year too, so it’s a new tradition.
4-year old, after opening a present: A truck! Vroom vroom! Can I open another present now?
His [...]
Posted in cake, cheese, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 22nd, 2009
Back when my brother was the family cheesecake-maker, we didn’t eat a lot of chocolate cheesecakes. He didn’t like them. I always thought, what is there not to like? It’s chocolate, and it’s cheesecake. Seems like a good match.
But now I see his point. I like both chocolate and cheesecake, [...]
