I know there’s not that much that’s special about a caesar salad – it’s been done, and it’s not hard to make. And kale salad, it’s the trendiest of trendy right now. I got an inexplicable amount of pleasure out of making the caesar dressing for the salad. It’s pretty standard – garlic, egg yolk, [...]
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I love these brownies. Not quite as much as the sweet & salty brownies from Explorations, but they’re a close second, and they’re my favorite recipe out of Elements so far. These are brownies that are typical of those in all of the Baked books – easy to make, fudgy and deeply chocolate. In addition [...]
Thanksgiving isn’t one of those big-deal holidays for us. Actually, we’re pretty low-key for all holidays. My brother usually comes down, and we hang out. The game is on, laptops are out, books are read. I really like it. Even though we don’t have a big-deal Thanksgiving, I still make a fairly traditional meal. Turkey, [...]
These grits are supposedly breakfast food, but I made them right around dinnertime on a night I didn’t have any other dinner planned. Both Larry and I had other places to go, so I ate some straight out of the pan, standing up, then got some manners and put some in a bowl. I don’t [...]
This cake is the perfect finish for a dinner party. It’s dramatic and amazingly delicious, especially if you like chocolate. And it’s not fussy to make – everything can be made the day before so that it’s ready to be assembled a few hours before the fun starts. My success with big, multi-layer cakes is [...]
Canning and preserving never really appealed to me, despite growing up with a mom who was an avid home canner. I’ve dabbled in it in the past, making things like salsa, jams and tomato sauces, but I don’t really have the patience for it – spending an entire day chopping, steaming, sterilizing. I like the [...]
I was there in the kitchen, with the Sad Little Cake, with just a few hours to go and I needed to come up with some sort of non-sad dessert for eight people. I scrambled through some of my favorite, most reliable cookbooks. Everything I picked out needed too much time. Cookies are always easy [...]
I love this cake. Love, love, love. It’s absolutely perfect in every way. Chiffon cake is kind of like angel food cake, except it’s got fat and leavening, so there’s more flavor and body to the cake (it’s also more stable). It’s ultra-moist and doesn’t need any frosting. This one is flavored with orange zest [...]
This is probably one of the more mainstream recipes out of the Humphrey Slocombe book – especially if you’re not sure about salt in desserts and decide to just leave it out. In that case, it’s just a great chocolate ice cream. The base starts out with a caramel (that gets high marks in my [...]
I knew for sure that I was going to make this cake as soon as I saw the recipe posted on Creative Culinary. This is my kind of cake. It’s not fussy – what I would call a snack cake. It’s ultra moist and doesn’t need any frosting. And there’s nutmeg! I normally think of [...]
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