Posted in citrus, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Feb 23rd, 2010
The problem with wheat germ cookies is that my mind focuses on the wheat germ part instead of the cookie part. So then these are healthy and therefore perfectly acceptable to eat with my tea – before breakfast. Wheat germ, people! Whole grains! Cookie schmookie.
Plus – they’re so good! No [...]
Posted in citrus, cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit on Nov 9th, 2009
Earlier in the summer, I got it in my head that I could bake all I wanted as long as I just sent the treats away. Brilliant! All the swirling butter and sugar in the mixer without any of the calories! I don’t have a PhD for nothing, people.
So I put out [...]
Posted in breakfast, citrus, fall, freezer friendly, fruit, quick bread, winter/holidays on Nov 5th, 2009
This recipe changed the whole shape of my last year. Before making these great scones, I’d spend a large part of both weekend mornings cooking, usually something sweet one day and something savory the other. It made for a nice breakfast category here, but it wasn’t the best way to relax on the [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 25th, 2009
Oh, how times change. I had kind of thought that last year’s lemon cream tart would be my first and last citrus cream experience. Seriously, that is a lot of butter. But apparently, my attitude toward rich foods has slowly evolved from ‘this is way too fattening for me to indulge in [...]
“I’m gonna go torch my birthday cake. Do you want to watch?”
It was late and I was crabby, so I thought I would get more of a reaction. But apparently I’d already shown Dave a picture of the cake I was planning to make for my birthday, so he knew exactly what I [...]
Posted in citrus, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, gluten free, healthy, spring on May 21st, 2009
I think I’ve developed a warped sense of nutrition. For the most part, I maximize fruits and vegetables, minimize carbs, focus on lean, usually vegetarian proteins, and avoid alcohol. But this all gets thrown out the window on the weekends, when all I do is try not to overeat and hopefully get some [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on May 14th, 2009
You know how a lot of citrus recipes warn you to be careful not to get any of the white pith when you zest the fruit, because it’s bitter? Well, guess what?
Bitter is good.
This was my first whole lemon dessert, where everything but the seeds is included. It was simple. Blend sugar [...]
Posted in book review, citrus, cookies, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit on May 3rd, 2009
Is it possible to have a cookbook crush? I received Tartine in the mail three weeks ago, and I’ve hardly put it down since. I heard about the book when Mark recommended it, so I flipped through it one day in the bookstore. I flip through a lot of the books in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
