Oh, how I love quick breads. They are delicious, easy and, most importantly, quick. This month’s challenge was quite versatile and so fun. I was able to make one loaf of savory bread to serve with dinner and then a sweet loaf a couple days later for breakfast. Getting started on this challenge more than [...]
These little guys come together easily with very little cooking, making them a quick, easy and tasty weeknight meal. All you need is a rotisserie chicken, a can of black beans, a can of corn, tortillas, feta cheese, avocado, tomatoes, pickled jalapenos, limes and fresh cilantro. You can change anything about this meal to make [...]
This is not going to be impressive to you bread aficionados. Who can’t make simple white bread, you ask? Me. That’s who. Well, until now. Feast your eyes on my first decent loaf of white bread. I have only recently begun to feel more comfortable using yeast. Pizza dough really gave me my initial confidence [...]
This is Jacques Torres’s secret recipe! I found it on Martha Stewart, so it’s really no big secret. In the summer of 2010 I went to visit my sister and her family in Brooklyn. We stopped by the Jacques Torres shop in Dumbo and we got one of these cookies. I think these have got [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! I made these as a last minute Valentine’s dessert. And by last minute I mean I thought about doing them last night and made them this morning. The great thing is that they turned out! Not in the perfect heart shape I was hoping for, but love isn’t perfect. So, I’m going [...]
Who would have thought? Peas. And, to shock you even more, it was GOOD. And not just so-so, but really, really good. Like I finished it off by scraping the sides of the bowl. That kind of good. And you still feel good because at least half of the bulk of this guacamole is pureed [...]
This is one of the first things you will see as you start preparing this pie crust. 2 whole sticks of pure and lovely butter. So you know it’s gotta be good. There is nothing at all wrong with buying your pie dough. I do it all the time. Those twin packs of Pillsbury pie [...]
As often happens to me these days, I had the urge to bake, but not much to work with. But if you have butter (and flour and sugar), you have everything you need! I’ve expressed my love of brown butter before. Brown butter has this nutty wonderful flavor and can transform a baked good or even [...]
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