Posted in baked goods, breakfasts, recipes on Aug 28th, 2012
If you’ve been following my tweets (and you should, if you want more updates than this blog is currently providing), you know I’ve been on a several-month quest for the perfect granola and granola bar recipe. It’s been a frustrating quest. For granola, I like it not too sweet, clumpy, and with lots of nuts [...]
Posted in baked goods on May 4th, 2012
We interrupt the monthly ice cream series to introduce a new obsession: bread. We bought the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois, which explains how to make high-moisture dough in large volumes so that you can make bread at a moment’s notice. No kneading is necessary; simply [...]
Posted in baked goods on Nov 15th, 2011
Today is National Bundt Day! This post is inspired by Mary, the Food Librarian, who loves Bundt cakes. I was in the mood to make something with pumpkin, since it’s the season. I decided on the Pumpkin Spice cake. Easy to put together– moist, pumpkiny and spicy, and not too sweet. It got the Lipby [...]
Posted in baked goods, breakfasts, recipes on May 15th, 2011
If you’re ever wondered what a 500-degree oven is for, it’s for cooking these little beauts: I haven’t made ‘em since… oh gosh, probably since my previous life as a Victorian housewife. But I made ‘em this morning. The recipe I use (this time around anyway) derives from “Harriet’s Southern Biscuits” out of Jeff Smith’s [...]
Posted in baked goods, recipes on Dec 31st, 2010
Being the cookie junkie that I am, I can’t believe that this is the first post about cookies that I’ve written for this blog. Well, better late than never. I am asked to make this cookie every year around the holidays. This is Lipby’s favorite. I love anything with cinnamon in it, so it’s one [...]
Posted in afternoon tea, baked goods, recipes on Jun 13th, 2010
[updated 8/8/2010: edited, and now with photos!] It took me a while to actually follow through on the comment from this post, but I finally made my own English muffins. The dough for English muffins is softer and stickier than your usual bread dough. During the second rise, you form the muffins and let it [...]
Posted in baked goods, recipes on Mar 28th, 2010
This is a delightfully light and fluffy cake with the pleasant taste of oranges and a hint of almonds. It’s also super-easy to make. I am slightly disappointed that it doesn’t have the consistency of baked polenta– it has more of a cornbread consistency, but lighter. I’m sure I could tweak the recipe to make [...]
Posted in baked goods, brunches, dinners, Italian, recipes, regional on Jan 23rd, 2010
This recipe was passed along to me by my sweetie Dragonia. It’s definitely not the sort of thing Jack and I usually eat around the House of Cards, but I was intrigued by the use of nutmeg in conjunction with bruschetta-like ingredients, and it made for a nice change-up. Depending on your own culinary history, [...]
Posted in appetizers, baked goods, recipes on Dec 21st, 2009
I had the urge to bake cookies for the holiday party at work, but was afraid other staff members would feel the same way and then there would be a glut of cookies. Not that I think that’s a bad thing, mind you, but in the interest of providing a more balanced set of foods [...]
Posted in baked goods, recipes on May 3rd, 2009
Lipby and I went to Florida this past winter to visit his parents. We arrived, coincidentally enough, during the Kumquat Festival, and we just had to go. We all took a shuttle bus into Dade City, and were treated to kumquats, whole and in various preparations. Lipz and I bought a huge box of meiwa [...]