There are changes in the air: peaches are giving way to late-summer figs in the farmers’ market. I grab a few cartoons of black figs, some…
Berry/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites/ scalable
Alsatian-Style Blueberry Tart | Baking with Dorie
There are a few of my favorite things to which I’ll keep going back. Blueberry tart is among the top of the heap. I can’t agree…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ make ahead
Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies | Baking with Dorie
There are several unexpected elements — in a good way about the caramel crunch-chocolate chunklet cookies. First off, there is no caramel in the ingredient list…
The idea of a parfait-layered vacherin is an unfamiliar one for me. Never before have I made or tasted one. The biggest assist comes when I…
Berry/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ summer
Lemony Yogurt Muffins with Blueberries | Baking with Dorie
Muffins with a lot of blueberries folded into them are Dorie’s go-to as well as her template for fruit muffins. I love blueberry muffins and I’m…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ summer
Strawberry-Rhubarb Squares | Baking with Dorie
Strawberry and rhubarb is a classic paring as well as a perfect summer dessert in the form of a cake. In this recipe in Baking with…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ scalable
Jelly Roll Cake Unlike Any Other | Baking with Dorie
Starting off with the classic jelly roll cake recipe from Baking with Dorie, I ended up with a version that’s unlike any other cake I’ve made.…
cheese/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ puff pastry
Vermont Cheddar Gougères | Baking with Dorie
The more times I work with the choux or the cream puff dough, the more I find myself enjoying the process. We’ve made a few of…
Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites
Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream | Baking with Dorie
The recipe of cream puffs with crackle and cream contains the classic and noteworthy dough and the filling. In our house, we’re obsessed with the pâte…
Dorie quoted a friend in the saying: “anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” The reference to overdoing is about the caramel flavor which is front and…
breakfast/ cheese/ cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ Mediterranean/ quick bread
Goat Cheese Black Pepper Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie
It’s the season first when I harvest the fresh crop of mint from my perennial herb patch amid the drizzling misty spring rain. Mint is the…
The Parisian custard tart does transport me back to Paris, very much like the French cheesecake. What’s the two have in common is the blackened or…
breakfast/ Dairy free/ Dorie Greenspan/ Italian/ quick cake/ spring
Breakfast-in-Rome Lemon Cake | Baking with Dorie
The notion of a lemon breakfast cake in Rome with a cup of cappuccino in early spring, the way Dorie describes her experience, really speaks to…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ whole wheat
Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds | Baking with Dorie
There are several specialty flours I keep in my pantry: semolina for pasta, 00 for pizza and rye for bread and cookies. Why rye flour? The…
Dorie Greenspan/ Fish/ French/ my favorites
Rosa Jackson’s Bourride | Last Recipe from Everyday Dorie
Hard to believe this is going to be the last Everyday Dorie‘s recipe I’m participating in the cooking club Cook-the-Book-Fridays since the first post in October,…
breakfast/ cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ make ahead/ quick bread/ Side
Potato Flake Biscuits | Baking with Dorie
Do I really need potato flakes to make these biscuits? Well, potato flakes are something umfamiliar. I google and see that Bob’s Red Mill sells it…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Meat/ my favorites/ one-pan/ winter
Bourbon-Roasted Pork Loin | Everyday Dorie
The idea of a bourbon-roasted pork loin did not excite me until I tested the recipe. It passed with flying color. In fact, the dish is…
Dorie Greenspan/ Meat/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ one-pan/ winter
Braised Lamb Shanks with Carrots and Olives | Everyday Dorie
Last time I made Dorie’s braised lamb shanks for the blog was at the height of the pandemic in April 2020. (See the full recipe here.)…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ quick cake
Chunky Blood Orange Cornmeal Cake | Baking with Dorie
The chunky blood orange cornmeal cake is the result of playing around with the combination of the whole blood orange and sumac. Both the citrus fruit…
“Poke-ay” conjures up the image of enjoying a bowl of it in the open air by the ocean in Hawaii wearing flip-flops. The polarity between the…
Bake/ breakfast/ brunch/ cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ pastry
Spinach-Mozzarella Pie with Parm Crumble | Baking with Dorie
I had the spinach-Mozzarella pie with Parm crumble for lunch while pondering the difference between a pie and a quiche. The cheese, cream and egg filling…
brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ enriched dough/ mezze (small plates)/ Sauté/ scalable
Free-Style Mushroom, Herb and Ricotta Tart | Baking with Dorie
This is an unconventional tart. It might be called a tray tart, if I can make up such a term. There are three layers to the…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ Mediterranean/ pasta/ scalable/ Seafood
Seafood Pasta | Everyday Dorie
The seafood pasta has a similar vibe to the holiday fish soup in the same section of Dorie’s book Everyday Dorie. Just substitute pasta in stead…
It’s never too late to find a classic cookie that you instantly like. Hermits are New England natives which have been around since the late 1800s.…
Bake/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Side/ year round
Christiane’s Dinner-Party Terrine | Everyday Dorie
The Christiane’s dinner-party terrine brings me back to the last terrine I made which was a duck terrine with figs. It is hard to compare a…