I first saw this salad over at The Recipe Girl a while back, although after bookmarking it, I realized I had the cookbook it came from, Ellie Krieger’s The Food You Crave. It looked wonderful, but I got distracted and forgot about it. The other night when I made my chicken divan, I was low…
Bizcochitos
I love saying that word. Mind you, I probably don’t say it correctly, but still, say it with me: beez-ko-chee-tos! OK and now the Spanish speakers can come and tell me what I did wrong. Why oh why when I was a know-it-all 8th grader could not some one have told me that Spanish would…
I Attended A Family Function… And I Did Not Bring Bundt Cake!
OK, now that you have all recovered from the shock. I am headed to Pittsburgh tomorrow (actually this will be published after I leave so I am there now but let’s not confuse things, shall we?) and I wanted to take some food. First we are staying with my Great Aunt Blanche in Wheeling and…
Laura’s Orange Scented Take on Shirley’s Even Greater American Pound Cake
As far as I can tell every baker I know–or every cookbook-collecting baker, maybe not my mom who buys about 1 cookbook per year–has run out and bought a copy of Shirley Corriher’s Bakewise. So how could I do otherwise? I got a good deal on it, which was happy given that I try to…
Holy Moly What A Night… But What A Cookie, Too: Ginger Spice Crinkles
I made Nancy Baggett’s Ginger Spice Crinkles last night, intending to enjoy 1 before bed. It was a somewhat stormy night when I went to bed, thunder rumbling in the distance. Radar showed a lot of red, but I was not convinced it would hit us–which I thought was too bad because boy do we…
BBD#13: Orange Cranberry Bran Muffins
It is amazing what subtle, friendly peer pressure will do for you. I had sworn off this month’s Bread Baking Day as just too much effort for a theme I was not bonkers about (100% Whole Grain), when Susan, of Wild Yeast, commented in response to a comment I left on her blog that she…
Shortbread Bars Take 3 (and really that’s it, I promise): Citrus Bars
Are you noticing a theme here folks? Bars and shortbread bases? I think this is the last one, for layered shortbread anyway, as I was just looking at some pictures of brownies online that were practically calling my name. Alex will be depressed to hear this, as she is allowed to lick off the mixer…
Dinner’s a bust but lunch is a success out of the pantry
“Wow, you don’t often have complete failures. I can’t remember the last time we threw the whole dinner out before ever eating it.” Thanks, Honey. Hey he meant it well—I don’t often have complete failures, so it was mostly a compliment. But yeah tonight’s dinner was a total bust. I am still not sure what…