(Thursday, July 18) Reversing my car down the driveway as I headed to the grocery store this morning, I backed into the 64-gallon recycling bin that I’d wheeled out for pick-up last night, knocking it over and sending milk cartons, empty jam jars, wine bottles, and garbanzo bean cans clattering into the street. The noise…
Tag: dessert
Orange-Chocolate Mini-Chip Cake
I like to give a cake plate with a glass dome as a wedding present. Simultaneously useful and beautiful, a cake plate and dome promises good times ahead and a lifetime of celebrations to share. And it keeps your cake fresh and the flies off. What could be better? At the check-out counter of a…
Chocolate Tart with Raspberries
I’m not a real food blogger. 1. I forget to take pictures of the finished product. 2. I don’t photograph many recipes in progress because my nail polish (when I’m wearing any) is usually chipped beyond salvaging. Not pretty. 3. I am passionately interested in tasting the food of great restaurants, but I get so…
Evolution of a Fresh Coconut Cake
There’s no recipe here today, just a record of the process and a public declaration: I’ll never grate a fresh coconut again. The first ingredient listed in the recipe for Fresh Coconut Cake from The Fannie Farmer Baking Book is (ta dah!) one coconut. Author Marion Cunningham instructs the cook to access the meat of…
Carrot Cake
I’d rather call this Carrot Bread until Lent is over, if you know what I mean. It’s baked in a loaf pan, it has no frosting, and it’s full of fruit, nuts, and vegetables. It’s practically a baked salad. Okay, that last part’s a stretch, but if you get a hankering for a lushly textured…
Swoon-worthy Brownies
It’s Valentine’s Day. If chocolate is the currency, these brownies are worth a million bucks. Cheers to love! The Best Fudge Brownies Ever, adapted slightly from a recipe printed on a bag of all-purpose flour made by the King Arthur Flour Company, Inc., of Norwich, Vermont, America’s oldest flour company. 1 cup (8 ounces) unsalted…
Possum Pie
Beyoncé delivered a killer Super Bowl halftime show Sunday night. I made a killer dessert. We’re simpatico that way. I’ll venture a guess, though, that one can’t wear 18-square-inches of leather and lace and dine on Possum Pie very often. Or not to great effect, anyway. Possum Pie is about to enjoy a renaissance. It rates…
Shortbread Linzer Cookies and Stars
Gather ye butter, sugar, and flour. I’m making Christmas cookies today. The base of this recipe can morph into lots of different treats. It is the Transformer of baked goods. I first made it as shortbread hearts for Valentine’s Day from a recipe in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, by Ina Garten. In the recipe headnotes,…
Baked Apples
Food doesn’t get much more straight-forward than this, and autumn is the perfect time for it. Let me introduce you to Baked Apples, something I consider a treat but which makes my husband, an apple-hater of some renown, recoil. Pay him no mind. These are delicious. No bonnet, pinafore, or gingham apron is necessary to make these…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Two-fer
There’s a chocolate chip cookie recipe I keep in my hip pocket, so to speak. Actually, I keep it rubber-banded to the canister of all-purpose flour in my kitchen cabinet. That’s how close I keep this recipe. Originating in the kitchens of Hershey’s Chocolate Company decades ago, these cookies have been in my family forever,…
Cookbook Wall 