Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi When I told my husband about this recipe he joked, “you can’t mix apples and oranges”, well yes you can. I picked this recipe since my husband’s favorite recipe from Around My French Table is Gateau Basque. The crust, a little tricky to work with, is very forgiving and…
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Sweet Potato and Marshmallow Pie Bars
Tuesdays with Dorie Out of the three desserts I have made this month for Tuesdays with Dorie this was by far my favorite. I did not grow up eating sweet potato pie so this was my first taste and I loved it. The base which is a little like Dorie’s sweet tart dough baked up…
Cranberry Upside-Down Muffins
I Heart Cooking Clubs Bread Basket For bread week, I feel I should have made a yeasted-bread but that was not in the cards. While looking through my Gourmet magazines I spotted this cranberry muffin recipe and I was intrigued to make it. 2 cups cranberries, picked over and rinsed 1 1/4 cups sugar 1…
Chocolate Cream Puffs with Mascarpone Filling
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi For this recipe I managed to get 23 cream puffs using a two teaspoon scoop. I think this worked in my favor as I was serving these for a crowd. I feared I would not have enough filling but I had exactly what I needed. I used dark chocolate…
Cranberry Pecan Crostata
I Heart Cooking Clubs Monthly Featured Ingredient Cranberries! A crostata is an open-faced fruit tart, often with a decorative lattice top. I have not made a crostata before but I have made plenty of tarts. This crostata caught my eye in Ruth Reichl My Kitchen Year and I was glad that cranberries were this month’s…
Sour Cream Bran Muffins
I Heart Cooking Clubs Morning Glories I was a Gourmet Magazine devotee. I kept my magazines for a very long time but I finally got rid of them in one of my moves. I did manage to keep a couple of issues of The Best of Gourmet. Now that we are cooking with Ruth Reichl…
Cranberry Five-Spice Cookies
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies I host a friendsgiving every year. This year the magic date everyone was free was November 3rd, early in the month. I made three of our baking assignments for this meal. First up are these savory cookies in the cocktail section of Dorie’s Cookies. I had to omit the peanuts…
Butternut Squash Soup
I Heart Cooking Clubs Potluck Week Butternut squash is one of the few foods my husband does not like to eat so on his recent business trip I invited his best friend over (he eats everything) for a dinner of butternut squash soup. The recipe calls for one pound of butternut squash, I went the…
Devil’s Food Wafflets
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies We love waffles, mostly for breakfast and they are only yeast-raised waffles, light and crisp. We own a VillaWare waffle maker which is considered an essential gadget in our house. My husband and I both cook and bake but we have divided duties in the kitchen, waffles come under my…
The Paris Cheesecake
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi We love Dorie’s cheesecakes and this recipe was no exception. Dubbed the Paris Cheesecake due to the addition of certain ingredients. Traditional New York cheesecake is made with a graham cracker crust, this cheesecake is made with speculoos and almond flour. Dorie also suggested using LU Cinnamon Sugar Spice…
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