This week on Cook the Book Fridays we are cooking with summer corn. I actually had all the ingredients for this one: miso, olive oil, butter, za’atar, salt, pepper and fresh basil. This one did not do it for us. Surprisingly, we didn’t taste much of the miso or za’atar and I even doubled the…
Author: Diane Zwang
Caramelized Cinnamon-Milk Chocolate Tart
I have been looking forward to this tart for a very long time and I was not disappointed and neither was my family. Armed with my cinnamon from Costa Rica, one of my friends bought for me, I delved into this recipe. A quarter of a cup of sugar is caramelized with two cinnamon sticks….
Classic Brownies
There is only one way to eat a brownie in our house and sans nuts please. Delicious, classic and make again. Head over to Tuesdays with Dorie to see what others thought.
Blueberry-buttermilk Bundt Cake
With the heat of the summer, blueberries are in season every where so this was the perfect summer cake. It was painful to turn on my oven, we were having a heatwave in California, but I did it any way. I had most of the ingredients for this bundt cake but picked up fresh blueberries,…
Double-Mint Milk Chocolate Mousse and Gelee
Mint is not my husband’s favorite flavor, he prefers I not use fresh mint in dishes and mint chocolate chip would not be his ice cream of choice. On the other hand my son and I love all thinks mint so I jumped into this recipe from Baking Chez Moi with both feet. I don’t…
Biarritz Cookies
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are baking from Dorie’s Cookies. Biarritz cookies are a soft cookie made from almond flour, flour, confectioners’ sugar, butter, milk, egg whites that have been whipped up and sugar. The cookies are then pipped on to a tray. I followed Dorie’s instructions and made my first batch the…
Canistrelli
Another non-sweet wine cookie from Baking Chez Moi. I remember the Olive Oil and Wine Cookies we made in the past, they were not my favorite. I was willing to buy the white wine for these but not the Pastis which is an anise flavored liqueur. Steph helped me pick Limoncello from my available liqueurs….
Merveilles
We have another fried dessert on Tuesdays with Dorie. Merveille means miracle and it is a miracle that I made this recipe. The dough is soft and requires two chillings. It is supposed to be rolled until it is paper-thin. My dough kept either sticking to the cutting board or getting holes in it before…
Ginger-Beet Salad Bowls
This week on Cook the Books Fridays, we are diving into salads. This multi-component salad is more work than I would normally go into for a salad but it was well worth the effort. As others have mentioned the dressing was the star. My husband made the quinoa in the rice maker which worked really…
Fried Potato Crackers
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we headed to the Cocktail section of Dorie’s Cookies. These crackers are made with potato flakes, an item I don’t think I have ever purchased before. Dry ingredients of flour, potato flakes, baking powder are mixed together with a little butter, salt, an egg and hot water to form…
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