If you are looking for leftover Halloween candy ideas, I’ve got you covered! Stuff it in cookies, cakes, mix it with caramel corn–all sorts of ways to keep the homemade treats coming while using up the Halloween candy! I hope everyone had a fun Halloween–and I hope most of you were able to stay drier…
Pierogi Part 2 (Strawberries Macerated in Sweet Vodka)
When Chris and I planned our pierogi making adventure, we talked about meat and potato fillings. Dessert never even crossed our minds. But then the day he came I was browsing Anne Applebaum’s From a Polish Country House Kitchen: 90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food and I noticed that she had pierogi with a strawberry filling,…
#BundtaMonth: Citrus Bundt Cake with Sparkling Wine and Fiori di Sicilia… Trifle
You might have guessed from both my title and my picture that this month’s BundtAMonth did not go as planned. The first problem was that I just did not have many occasions on which to bake a bundt cake, given that I was sick throughout the holidays. Then, when I did make one, I made…
Late Night One Bowl Vanilla Sour Cream Cake
Plain or simple are not works I associate with the cooking I do. Ironically, therefore, my baking is pretty much the opposite; I don’t like too many flavors going on at the same time. And when I am sick, as I was over Christmas, I want my desserts to be even more plain. Almost boring…
Triple Chocolate Pancakes with Hot Chocolate Sauce & Whipped Cream
For Sammy’s family birthday meal, when John and I gave her our presents, she requested breakfast for dinner. Although I love breakfast for dinner, it left me with a dilemma. I don’t usually serve dessert when we have breakfast for dinner, because we love breakfast dishes like pancakes, waffles and French toast. in other words,…
Blueberry Crisp Parfait
I am willing to buy certain fruits and veggies year round. Maybe because they are only available from far away (citrus, anything tropical), they are not grown in abundance locally (broccoli) or they are so necessary either in the winter (onions, peppers, garlic) or for specific preparations (galangal, lemongrass). But certain fruits and veggies, we…
All Purpose Cocoa Cookie Dough for Wafers, Bars, Drop Cookies
I am frequently wary of all purpose cookie doughs. They are usually butter cookie dough based, and maybe I should not say wary so much as they do not result in the kinds of cookies that I love, so I pass them by. But then a few weeks ago I was browsing Fine Cooking: Chocolate,…
Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Slightly Salted
I have been skating around brown sugar pound cakes for a long time now. Staring at recipes, thinking about making them, backing off and choosing a different recipe at the last minute. We have a complicated relationship, me and brown sugar. I love it plain–I steal pinch-fuls every time I bake–but many brown sugar…
Individual Peanut Butter Mousse Pies–for Mikey–and John, Alex and Sammy
As most of you know, I was gone for a decent chunk of last summer. I tried my best to keep up with blogging–I even became a travel blog for a short while but I did not keep up with the outside world worth a hoot. Major League Baseball passed me by as did the excitement…