Do you sneak bites of brown sugar when baking? I always have–can’t help myself. So of course I let my kids have one small spoonful also. And I usually let them have 2-5 chocolate chips if we are baking with those. It dawns on me while Sammy and I are baking today–her first time really…
Archives for January 2009
The Passing Of A Friend & A Loaf Of Bread To Share
I love this picture. It may look crazy to some of you without dogs, but Loki was actually very good with puppies. Taken last year. I have some recipes to share–and I even have pictures, but we finally replaced my computer (I now have a Mini Mac–YAYAYAY!!!), but I don’t have the software installed yet…
Of Birds & Cookies: Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Have you ever noticed the insane myriad of approaches to making cookies that contradict one another? Sherry Yard says if your chocolate chip cookies fail your butter was too warm/soft. Alice Medrich says chocolate chip cookies should only be made with melted butter. That NY Times recipe (the only one of the previous 3 to earn my…
As I sit here typing 1 1/2 hours after dinner, I am still scrumptiously full. Full as in not at all too full, yet the kind of full where you had something hearty and filling that seeped into every nook and cranny of your tummy–and then thanks to a whopping protein component actually stayed there….
Tapatio Cheddar Bread
Bread Baking Day I have missed you! The theme this month is cheese and bread–and strangely enough I have had a devil of a time with it. My first effort was terrible–so terrible I actually threw it away. Maybe it was just me, I don’t know. Maybe I am not meant to appreciate Parmesan in…
Lime & Thyme Blueberry Pound Cake
I got this great new bundt pan recently from Williams and Sonoma–a gift to myself with a credit card rewards gift card. I am obsessed with this pan. It is the Heritage bundt pan and strangely enough it is the first 10 inch (12 cups) bundt pan I have owned. Obviously anyone who reads this…
Southwestern Sweet Potato Hash Served With Cabbage & Corn Slaw With Cilantro-Orange Dressing
Lunchtime guests always present a dilemma for me. Not an unwelcome dilemma, lest you are reading this and you are one of those guests, but a dilemma nonetheless. I am just not a lunch person. I love breakfast and I love dinner, but lunchtime with its cold options leaves me, well, cold. A lot of…
When Life Hands You Lemons…: Lemon-Goat Cheese Cheesecake… Parfait?
This dessert was absolutely fabulous. As a parfait. As a cheesecake, well it was very runny. And when life hands you a fabulous tasting but flawed cheesecake, you make parfait. Not really sure what happened, I am no cheesecake expert. I have a theory as to why it cracked (see note in recipe re: not…
A Mea Culpa For Raghavan: Lasoon Batata Palak (New Potatoes & Spinach In A Garlic-Red Chile Sauce)
So that potato dish I called “meh”? Not so meh after all. Some dishes, particularly Indian and Mexican ones, just need time to meld for a while. What was watery yesterday is creamy today; the flavor became more nuanced, the spices more blended. So I guess this is a “make-ahead-er.” Just look at the difference…