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…
Author: Diane Zwang
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…
Tropical Tartlets
This month on Tuesdays with Dorie we have had a tropical theme; mango, lime and coconut. Given that none of us can travel beyond our own backyards we are traveling with our food adventures. These tropical tartlets from Baking Chez Moi live up to their name. The filling is comprised of mango, eggs, sugar, coconut,…
Lower East Side Brunch Tart
This week on Cook the Book Fridays we are celebrating one of our own with a dish she wanted to make, Lower East Side Brunch Tart. Chez Nana, aka Rosemarie DiDomenico, I ‘met’ in the group French Fridays with Dorie in which we were cooking from Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan. She and…
Coconut-Lime Sablés
Our latest baking adventure from Dorie’s Cookies, a tropical inspired Coconut-Lime Sablé. As my husband calls these “confused cookies” since they are made in a muffin pan. Normal ingredients include butter, sugar, flour and tropical ingredients coriander, limes, and coconut (sweet, unsweetened, toasted and plain). There is a lot going on in these cookies which…
Cherry Clafoutis
I dusted off my copy of Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan for this lovely seasonal treat. I love cherries and look forward to them every year. I am always looking for recipes that use fresh cherries. The recipe calls for whole-cherries not pitted but I was serving this to older folks and I…
Summer Vegetable Tian
On Cook the Book Fridays, we are baking up a Summer Vegetable Tian from Everyday Dorie. Packed with summer vegetables; tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and in my case Graffati Eggplant and red onion. I managed to buy my vegetables of similar size except for the red onion. I thought this dish looked pretty before it went…
Crème Brûlée Tart
Another fabulous tart on Tuesdays with Dorie. We are down to the final tarts from Baking Chez Moi. Taking a traditional creme brulee filling and putting into a tart is tasty. I used the optional extracts of vanilla and chambord which I am not sure I tasted. I put in a half a cup of…
Peanut Butter and Fudge Brownies
This week on Tuesday with Dorie we are divining deep into chocolate, thank goodness for Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Chocolate Bars. These fudge brownies have a whopping 17 ounces of chocolate and butter, lots of butter. When my husband read the recipe he said “these are going to be rich”. This is a three layer…
Three-Pepper Burgers
My burgers are two-pepper burgers as our grocery store did not have any peppadew peppers. I saw Mardi’s recommendation about finely chopping the peppers too late as my husband had already made them:) My husband cooked these on a skillet instead of the bbq which I think was the right move keeping them together. They…
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