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 weekend. Not [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fall, nuts, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Nov 3rd, 2009
My dessert rich-o-meter has chocolate chip cookies right near the middle, with cheesecake at one end and, I don’t know, maybe angel food cake on the other. Although I almost never eat angel food cake. Regular layer cakes tend to be slightly on the less rich side of cookies, until you add frosting of course, [...]
Posted in breakfast, dessert, fruit, gluten free, winter/holidays on Jul 13th, 2009
As food blogging becomes more popular and more established, companies will start to take advantage of that to draw attention to their products. At some point, it seems that most food bloggers will have to ask themselves what their policy toward accepting free stuff for review is. Michael from Bella Viva Orchards offered me a [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Jan 28th, 2009
Ah, my sad little gingerbread photos. I had some issues with a tiny step in this recipe that I normally would have just ignored. “Butter the pan.” Pshaw, who butters their pans these days? Nonstick spray, baby! Since I needed 7⅓ tablespoons of butter for the portion of the recipe that I was making, I [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, citrus, fall, fruit, healthy, quick bread, whole grains, winter/holidays on Dec 11th, 2008
Didn’t I just make muffins? And wasn’t I talking about how I was still on pumpkin? While it’s true that I haven’t moved past pumpkin, I’m definitely excited about cranberries too. Especially cranberry and orange together. Seven or eight years ago, I went through a health nut phase where I pretty much eschewed white flour. [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Dec 9th, 2008
Believe it or not, I had all of November’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipes baked by November 1st. (And somehow my freezer was still full of desserts by the end the month.) December has been a different story. I did make these cookies last week, but I only finished them one day before leaving to spend [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, winter/holidays on Dec 6th, 2008
I am not done with pumpkin. Everyone has moved onto cranberries and is all blasé about pumpkin now. “Pumpkin is so November.” Well, I for one am not done. I’ve been looking for a good pumpkin muffin recipe for a while. What has been holding me back is the add-ins – dried cranberries, raisins, and [...]
Posted in cookies, dessert, winter/holidays on Nov 3rd, 2008
Decorated sugar cookies are a basic recipe that every established baker needs in their arsenal. I’ve got the frosting down, but I’ve haven’t quite found the right cookie. It’s a tall order. I want a sugar cookie that’s super tender with only, maybe, if absolutely necessary, the smallest bit of crispness to it, just on [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, daring bakers, dessert, fruit, pie, winter/holidays on Jan 28th, 2008
I saw so excited to see that this month’s Daring Baker challenge was lemon meringue pie! Not only do I love lemon, but the one lemon meringue pie I’ve made was several years ago and was only partially successful. It seemed to me like this had to potential to be a fairly difficult challenge – [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fall, nuts, winter/holidays on Jan 16th, 2008
For someone who’s been very interested in food and cooking for a large part of her life, I was late catching onto Martha Stewart fanhood. I just didn’t know much about her, for whatever reason. I didn’t watch her show, I didn’t read her magazine, and I hadn’t made any of her recipes. But then [...]
