2010 August | Hottie Biscotti

Daring Bakers: Ice Cream Petit Fours

This challenge sure snuck up on me…like many other Daring Bakers challenges of the past. Thankfully I remembered enough in advance to get this dessert completed in time! We had an option this month to complete one or both of these desserts; ice cream petit fours and baked Alaska. One day I will try baked [...]

Brown Butter Toffee Blondies

Martha Stewart offers a “Cookie of the Day” email that I have been getting for over a year now. I have made a few of these cookies, but rarely do the cookies just scream out and beg for me to make them. These brown butter blondies, however, were something I just couldn’t resist. Browned butter [...]

Thin, Crispy Pizza Crust & The Rudy

There are a few pizza doughs that I’ve tried that are delicious, but require an overnight rise in the refrigerator. Since I decided to make pizza for dinner the morning of, I wouldn’t have the luxury of letting the dough rise for 12 hours. So, I went in search of a quick rise pizza crust [...]

Chicken, Spinach & Mushroom Lasagna

This week was going to be a busy one. With every other night but Monday being packed with some event, I wanted something to make for dinner on Monday night that would create good leftovers for the week and be quick to reheat. Lasagna it would be. And because I like to try new recipes, [...]

Blueberry Muffins

When I first started to get a little crazy about baking in college I asked for this Martha Stewart Baking Handbook cookbook for Christmas. I used it quite a bit at the beginning as evidenced by the flour crusted on the front cover and bits of food scattered on some of the pages. Sadly, I [...]

Cold Oven Pound Cake

Another recipe from America’s Best Lost Recipes that I received for my birthday and where I got the recipe for the peach puzzle. The only unexpected thing about this pound cake is the baking process. The pan goes into a cold, as in DO NOT PREHEAT, oven. It then cooks for an hour and a [...]

Chicken, Tomato & Zucchini Packets

One of the best things about this meal, besides being quick and simple, is that it is almost completely free of any kitchen clean up! By baking the chicken and vegetables in little foil or parchment packages, you don’t have to worry about scrubbing down a pan that is coated with the remnants of roasted [...]

Swedish Pancakes

There are some foods you ate when you were younger that will always hold a special place in your heart and make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when you think about them. This is one of those foods for me. I remember having “Who can eat the most Swedish pancakes?” contests with my [...]

Buttery Jam Cookies

A good friend of mine makes jam every year and brings me a few jars when we see each other. It is so much better than store bought! The last time she was in Amarillo, she brought me 2 jars of blueberry jam. I used one of those jars in these cookies. These cookies are [...]

Peach Puzzle

My sister Sarah is visiting us for a few days in Amarillo. She got me this cookbook, America’s Best Lost Recipes, for my birthday. One of the recipes that caught her eye when she looked through it was this peach puzzle. We had no choice but to try it out when she was here. It’s basically [...]

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