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.…
foundation recipe/ Low fat/ Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ my favorites/ Simmer/ vegetarian
Greek Fava and the Mediterranean Diet
Spending part of May in Greece and tasting a variety of the Greek classics drive home the notion of eating locally, seasonally and farm-to-table. Among all…
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…
The first of a tofu crumble recipe on this blog comes from Mark Bittman. The title of the dish is “chorizo” taco, as if it were…
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…
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…
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…
A simple lemon cake gets the same love from almost everybody, much like an apple pie. What to bring to a potluck party, using primarily pantry…
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…
I took advantage of a rainy day to make some holiday cookies I have my sight on for quite a while. These are the matcha tea…
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.…
The classic apple pie, of which the mulled-butter apple pie is a variation, has been an ongoing challenge for me. It’s a challenge to make a…
Berry/ breakfast/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ holidays/ Nut/ quick cake
Pecan-Cranberry Loaf | Baking with Dorie
It’s never too early to start assembling recipes for Thanksgiving. Pecan and cranberry are the quintessential ingredients that add pizzazz to any Thanksgiving menu. When Dorie…
These devil’s thumbprints are fun to play with. What I did differently than Dorie was the filling on the cookies. She recommends raspberry and chocolate fillings.…
This is not exactly the fancy blood orange cake my family adores which we bake only on special occasions. Then there is this candied orange cake…
Szalotka is Polish dessert that I’ve never heard of. Dorie Greenspan, in her cookbook Baking with Dorie, speaks fondly about the Polish szarlotka which reminds her…