Since I am going to make a berry pie later this month I decided to go with Dorie’s Playing Around suggestion and I made a Nectarine-Berry Cobbler. A cobbler is a combination of fruit and biscuits and Dorie’s version includes cottage cheese in her biscuits. A quick search of my blog and I discovered that…
Author: Diane Zwang
Cheddar-Scallion Scones
We love scones, they are a beloved breakfast treat. I don’t think we have made savory scones before so this was a new recipe for us. Scones usually have heavy cream or sour cream but with the addition of so much cheddar cheese these have whole milk as the liquid. I managed to get a…
Strawberry Tart
This tart is supposed to have a bottom layer of poached rhubarb but after going to three grocery stores I ended up empty handed, so strawberry tart it is. This was a lovely summer dessert with strawberry flavor throughout. The strawberries I purchased were quite large so I only needed a few to cover the…
Liam Charles’s Chocolate Marshmallow Biscuits
Inspired by the latest season of the Junior Great British Bake Off, I decided to make Liam’s poop emoji biscuits ie cookies. It was a revelation to me that the recipes were available on the website, I did not know this. The recipe is printed by UK standards ie the metric system. I was not…
Lettuce Soup
This is a recipe that requires a lot of fresh ingredients so a trip to the produce store was needed before I could start this one. Since I did not think my son was going to like it I decided to make a half recipe which influenced what ingredients I was going to buy. To…
Ponzu Chicken
According to my cookbook, I made this chicken on 10/11/20 but I don’t remember making it and I don’t have a blog post for it so here we go again take two. Ponzu sauce is a mixture of soy and citrus, instead of buying a bottle my husband made some of his own concoction. We…
Warm Squid Salad
I included all the ingredients in the recipe except celery which I forgot to buy. I assembled everything in advance except the squid which my husband wanted to add right after cooking. I served this over a bed of iceberg lettuce with some bread for a light dinner. I found eating this dish quite laborious,…
Smoked Salmon Roll-Up
To amp up the flavor I substituted my jar of Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend. I used one tablespoon in place of the other ingredients in the cake and my husband picked the same blend in the smoked salmon. This roll-up delivered on flavor with so many ingredients inside. I don’t…
Curd, Cream and Berry Cake
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there. I voted for this because I think whipped cream, berries and cake is a quintessential spring dessert and perfect for Mother’s Day. Based on reviews from those that have made this already, I needed to enlist a dish washer ie my husband and I needed to…
Tempura’d Vegetables and Seafood
When it comes to frying my husband takes the lead. We had originally planned to have shrimp but we ended up using ingredients we had on hand. So our meal unexpectedly became monochromatic with red bell pepper, salmon and carrots. My husband busted out our trusty food thermometer and expertly fried up this wonderful dinner….
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