Italian Caprese Sliders I know this isn’t new, but seemed perfect for tomorrow (and it did get an Editor’s Pick in Food52‘s burger contest a while ago). When I was growing up my father was a true grill man – charcoal only and whatever he was making, there was one beer to splash on the food […]
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As promised, here is the second half of the Girlie Birthday Cupcakes – the chocolate/maraschino cherry cupcakes and minis. As I mentioned in Part I I modified and combined several recipes. For these, I used the Martha Stuart’s Strawberry Buttercream modified into Maraschino Cherry Buttercream and Sour Cream Chocolate Cupcakes from Betty Crocker. The minis […]
Since my kids are grown and away at school I don’t get the chance to practice my kid baking much anymore (although they do expect care packages). Fortunately, I have friends and family that let me borrow theirs, so today I’m making cupcakes for my friend’s four year old pink girlie girl […]
The January 2011 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Astheroshe of the blog accro. She chose to challenge everyone to make a Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. I chose to make two different ones, one with chocolate and peanut butter pastry cream and one with chocolate and orange pastry cream […]
Since I got the big enameled cast iron pots, I’ve been on a roasting kick, chicken, pork and a lot chuck so I decided to try something a little different than the usual pot roast or beef bourgionon and do a stuffed version. Keeping with my plan to report the not so good as well […]
Recipe for Cassoulet for Daring Cooks Challenge
The 2010 December Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie’s Baking. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make Stollen. She adapted a friend’s family recipe and combined it with information from friends, techniques from Peter Reinhart’s book………and Martha Stewart’s demonstration. I have never made Stollen, but having spent several years living […]
Recipe for cherry lime honey biscotti holiday gift