I am on the home stretch with self isolation, just 5 days to go. The last few days I have been baking daily. We were out of bread so I decided to make a loaf. This breakfast bread sounded like something we would all enjoy. I don’t have much experience with yeast breads so I…
Hazelnut Crescents
These are one of my favorite cookies, I have been making them for probably twenty years. The recipe comes from Chocolate cooking with the world’s best ingredient by Christine McFadden and Christine France. The book was a gift and I have made many chocolate treats from it. As I was trying to keep busy from…
Semolina Citrus Cake with Creamy Yogurt Frosting
In the spirit of COVID-19 baking, I am using up what ingredients I have on hand. I noticed an almost full bag of semolina flour, bought for Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies , and wondered what I could bake with it. I came across this recipe for a semolina cake and I was intrigued. I…
Potato Chowder
For Cook the Book Fridays, we are continuing to make anything from the book that we can find ingredients. I have taken this month to play catch-up with recipes previously done. For this week’s selection I handed my husband the list and asked him to pick a recipe, he chose this potato chowder with bacon….
Every-Way Shortbread Fans
For this recipe I had to turn to Dorie’s “playing around” section. I had fully intended to make the lemon-poppy seed version but I discovered that I did not have poppy seeds or lemon extract. I did have, on the other hand, orange extract so I went with orange shortbread. I would have preferred to…
Green Tea Sablés
We have made several sable recipes over the years from Baking Chez Moi and this will be our last. The basis of this cookie is like most; butter, sugar, flour, salt but the secret ingredient is green tea leaves. This recipe is different from the rest as it does not have an egg which made…
Salmon Burgers
Our Cook the Book Fridays group decided for the month of April to “make whatever recipe from Everyday Dorie that strikes your fancy (or, honestly, whose ingredients you can find or already have).” I decided to make my choice from the completed recipe list since I was still playing catch-up. I settled on these salmon…
Little Rascals
I voted for these jam filled sandwich cookies because my husband loves jam, I had jam to use up and I had all the ingredients to make them, a win-win-win. The German name for this cookie is Spitzbuben translated as little rascals. This is a new cookie for me. I made one substitution, my husband…
Speculoos Panna Cotta
We enjoyed last weeks Nutella-Banana Panna Cotta so much that I decided to do Dorie’s Bonne Idee of Speculoos Panna Cotta. I had a package of Lotus Biscoff cookies that I knew would be the perfect crunchy accompaniment. I waited in a long line at Trader Joe’s for my Speculoos Cookie Butter, as well as…
Last-of-the-Bunch Banana Bundt
Keep calm and bake, my new motto. I had all the ingredients for this week’s assignment for Every Day Dorie. The plan was to take this to a dinner party but it was cancelled due to the coronovirus outbreak. No matter I baked it anyway and shared it with my in-laws. Now comes the funny…
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