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…
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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…
Fannie Farmer’s Classic Yeast -Raised Waffles
I Heart Cooking Clubs Pantry Gourmet Waffles are the most requested breakfast item in our house and not just any waffles but yeast-raised waffles. This takes planning, you have to make the batter the night before. These waffles come out light and airy with a crisp outside, the ultimate in waffles in our house. The…
Applesauce
I Heart Cooking Clubs Snacks and Beginnings Nothing says Fall like a dish of homemade applesauce. This is not a dish I normally make but it sounded like a fun idea. Ruth states “applesauce practically makes itself” so I figured it would be pretty easy. The recipe calls for 6 apples, I used a variety…
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