A Celebration of Food and my Culinary Adventures
Fruit Crumble Coffee Cake; with its moist, rich, and buttery crumb, bursting with fresh fruit flavor, and crowned with a rich, crunchy cinnamon streusel that then is topped with a light dusting of powder sugar to finish. Having a few recipes that are easy to prepare, use ingredients that you always have on hand, that are quick to bake, and tasted really good is important to […]
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The pleasure of cooking and baking during the holiday season is that we get to indulge ourselves. Celebrating the holidays with those you love and sharing the wonderfully decadent and full flavored food of all sorts is what makes this time of year extra special. What could be more special that a Yule Log (Bûche de Noel) […]
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Double Stuffed Chocolate Cupcakes; Celebrates the idea of “more is better.” I start with a decadent chocolate cupcake and then fill it with a rich pastry cream, then dipped the top of the cupcake in ganache, next comes a piped swirl of the pastry cream on top the the ganache, and the top is dunk into the […]
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The Brownie. A true American baked good. Did you know the first recipe developed in 1896 as Brownies didn’t have any chocolate? Most people couldn’t imagine a brownie without the ubiquitous chocolate. But, by 1904, chocolate found its way into the revised Brownie recipe. Fast becoming a favorite treat to share with friends and family. Everyone has a favorite type of brownie they like. […]
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With Thanksgiving leftovers in the refrigerator and Christmas lights and decorations going up around the house. It is time to turn to the season of holiday baking and cooking. Instead of trying to figure out what gift to buy for someone. How about making homemade gifts instead? This coming month I’ll give you hints, […]
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“Don’t mess with a good thing!” Well sometimes messing with a tried and true recipe can be good! The Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Recipe is one of those recipes that has become the standard in the American home and professional kitchens for Thanksgiving. When family and friends gather together in homes, hotels, and restaurants on this holiday, it is […]
Read More…Cookies or Candy you decide for yourself. These delicious little Bon Bon Cookies are easy to make ahead and give as gifts. Add flavorings to the dough or change the filling to suit your own taste. My favorites are bourbon marinated cherries wrapped in chocolate dough dipped in chocolate ganache, and mint flavored dough wrapped around Andes […]
Read More…“Stop playing with your food!” We all have heard these words at some point in our lives. Usually it’s children who are on the receiving end of this advice and sometimes adults. I’m sure my mother told me this more than once when I was a kid. I always had a pension for playing with my food. But […]
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The fields behind my home were glazed with frost as the sun came up this morning. Triggering memories of visiting apple orchards around Marshall, Michigan in the fall when I was a kid. Picking up an apple from the ground in the early morning. Covered with a light frost of frozen dew. That first […]
Read More…Even though I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas. I still made these cookies…learning to bend the rules at a early age…using non-Christmas cutters. This is from the Rolled Cookies section of the book. Note: I’m writing this exactly as written with (my notes) in the book. Rolled Cookies: Gay shapes….for holiday and year ’round cheer. Merry […]
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