The devil’s food party cake is essentially a layer chocolate cake. Starting to mise en place, I casually gather the ingredients: flour, butter, sugar, eggs, as…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ Fruit/ quick cake/ scalable/ summer/ year round
Butter Cake with Peaches | The Reverse Creaming Method
These are the last-of-the-season peaches and you won’t find the sweet white and yellow peaches any longer until next summer. However, this recipe is good for…
Dorie Greenspan/ Other Breads/ quick bread/ scalable/ year round
Buttermilk-Molasses Rye Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie
This is a one-bowl quick bread recipe, slightly cake-like, very dark blend of rye, wheat and all-purpose flour by Dorie. Drawing on Dorie’s approach, I make…
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…
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.…
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…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ holidays/ my favorites/ scalable/ whole wheat
Coffee Anise Stars | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
It’s exciting to be making holiday cookies and decorate them to radiate the seasonal glow. That means making the coffee-anise stars from Baking with Dorie. The…
cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ Nut/ Pantry essentials/ scalable
Candied Cocktail Nuts | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
A dish of candied cocktail nuts is a must to serve with drinks or as snacks for the holidays season. Make a big batch, put the…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable/ two ways
Sparkling Shortbread Cookies | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
How would you like to have a master shortbread dough which can morph into a variety of cookies? It’s like a gift that keeps on giving.…
Chocolate/ dessert/ holidays/ Nut/ scalable/ Sugar free
Chocolate Bark with Pecans & Seeds | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
It feels right to make dark chocolate bark with pecans and seeds — without adding any sugar. It’s a change from the indulgence of sugary and…
The second day of holiday baking presents the red velvet crinkle cookies. These cookies are visually stunning with powered sugar, like fresh snow, covering the red…
There are so many interesting cookies to get excited about baking for the holidays. Can’t quite decide what to bake, so the scheme I devise is…
Sausage and cabbage is a no-recipe recipe from José Andrés. The fun part is you can follow the general guidelines as to which ingredients to use…
Ready to cut up two and a half pounds of apples to make a caramel-apple crisp? It’s apple season; even doubling or tripling the amount of…
In his cookbook Jamie Oliver Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy, there are easy and versatile recipes post-pandemic, I hope. Whether you’re planing a casual dinner or…
Consider this bread a baking adventure. Tackling 100% hydration in baker’s percentages is always challenging for bread makers. It’s not something we do often. At the…
breakfast/ classics/ foundation recipe/ scalable
Buttermilk Scones with Green Onions | Mindful Eating
Start the day with a great breakfast. And start the year with the casual scones. Besides breakfast, what about scones for tea? The idea of…
Any time when you find a recipe for a baked curry, you should give it a try. I made a similar baked chicken curry a while…
5 ingredients or less/ Mark Bittman/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Roast/ scalable/ Simmer
Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower | Veggies Forward
My new year resolution is to continue the healthy trend of a plant-based plan. The minimalist approach of pasta with cauliflower is originally derived from a…
dessert/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Orange and Star Anise Shortbread | Ottolenghi’s Sweet
The original shortbread came from Scotland. Likewise, the first printed recipe dating back to 1736 was from a Scotswoman Mrs McLintock. Moreover, the best shortbread cookies…
dessert/ Fruit/ Jim Lahey/ Low fat/ my favorites/ quick cake/ scalable
Orange Olive-Oil Cake | Torta D’olio D’oliva
Don’t let a simple cake like this fool you. It delivers spectacular flavor, uses wholesome ingredients, and easy to mix by hand. If you attend to…
Appetizer/ classics/ enriched dough/ Fish/ Other Breads/ scalable/ Side/ straight dough
Baby Yorkshire Puddings with Trout & Horseradish Pate
Yorkshire puddings have a rather long history throughout the British Isles. Hannah Glasse, in her 1747 cookbook The Art of Cookery, was the first to categorise…