This week on I Heart Cooking Clubs we are making drinks. The theme is Wet Your Whistle and we are to make any drink by Curtis Stone. I chose to make a smoothie. Smoothies are pretty easy and a popular snack in our house. I prefer to use frozen fruit and forgo adding ice to my smoothies….
Cocoa Crunch Meringue Cookies
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie I made Cocoa Crunch Meringue Cookies from Baking Chez Moi on page 293. This is my first attempt at a meringue type cookie and I was a bit nervous to get it right. My fellow bakers who had already made these commented that they had trouble getting the total recipe…
Bow-Tie Pasta with Corn, Thyme, and Parmesan
I love pasta in any way, shape or form. This bow-tie pasta caught my eye from Curtis Stone’s What’s For Dinner cookbook. Besides the obvious this recipe includes olive oil, shallots, garlic, dry white wine, thyme, corn, heavy cream and Parmesan cheese. I enjoyed this pasta but my husband gave it a meh. I think…
Oatmeal Coconut Butter Cookies
It has been a long time since I have had an epic baking failure so I guess I was do. I made these oatmeal coconut butter cookies from Curtis Stone’s What’s For Dinner. My first batch cooked up as one big cookie, talk about spread. I think there were several factors to this cookie’s failure….
Jammer Galette
It is Tuesdays with Dorie time again. One of our baking assignments this month is this Jammer Galette from Baking Chez Moi. My husband is a lover of jam so I knew he would like this one. Dorie’s crusts seem to always come out perfect. I used strawberry jam for the filling and who can…
Grilled Salmon with Orzo, Feta, and Red Wine Vinaigrette
At I Heart Cooking Clubs we have a new featured chef, Curtis Stone. I have checked out a copy of What’s For Dinner? from my local library and tagged several recipes to make. This week I chose Grilled Salmon with Orzo, Feta, and Red Wine Vinaigrette. This recipe came together easy and would make a perfect…
Matcha Financiers
Financiers cooling in the morning sun. According to Ito En: Matcha green tea is considered Japan’s most classic and popular beverage. Matcha is the treasured powdered green tea traditionally used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony-Chado. The vibrant green tea is finely milled from high quality tea leaves. Matcha is made using the entire tea leaf,…
Irish Soda Bread
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I can’t think of any better way to celebrate than with food. Last year I book marked this post from Mary at Lights on Bright No Brakes for Mrs.Frings’ Irish Soda Bread by Paul Vitale. I did not intend to wait an entire year before making it but that is how things worked…
Odile’s Fresh Orange Cake
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making Odile’s Fresh Orange Cake from Baking Chez Moi. Here is my experience with this week’s recipe. I was looking forward to this baking assignment, heck I voted for it, and the picture looked so pretty but apparently I have had troubles with directions lately. I reviewed…
Greek-Style Stuffed Peppers
This week’s theme on IHCC is ancient grains with our featured chef Ellie Krieger. The recipe I chose to make included bulghur which I think I confused with barley. Bulgur is a cereal food made from the groats of several different wheat species, most often from durum wheat. Bulgur is a kind of dried cracked wheat….
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