“Poke-ay” conjures up the image of enjoying a bowl of it in the open air by the ocean in Hawaii wearing flip-flops. The polarity between the…
Bake/ breakfast/ brunch/ cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ pastry
Spinach-Mozzarella Pie with Parm Crumble | Baking with Dorie
I had the spinach-Mozzarella pie with Parm crumble for lunch while pondering the difference between a pie and a quiche. The cheese, cream and egg filling…
brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ enriched dough/ mezze (small plates)/ Sauté/ scalable
Free-Style Mushroom, Herb and Ricotta Tart | Baking with Dorie
This is an unconventional tart. It might be called a tray tart, if I can make up such a term. There are three layers to the…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ Mediterranean/ pasta/ scalable/ Seafood
Seafood Pasta | Everyday Dorie
The seafood pasta has a similar vibe to the holiday fish soup in the same section of Dorie’s book Everyday Dorie. Just substitute pasta in stead…
It’s never too late to find a classic cookie that you instantly like. Hermits are New England natives which have been around since the late 1800s.…
Bake/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Side/ year round
Christiane’s Dinner-Party Terrine | Everyday Dorie
The Christiane’s dinner-party terrine brings me back to the last terrine I made which was a duck terrine with figs. It is hard to compare a…
I made this savory bread pudding as a side for the Thanksgiving dinner. Notably, it stands in for the traditional stuffing along with the roasted turkey.…
The classic apple pie, of which the mulled-butter apple pie is a variation, has been an ongoing challenge for me. It’s a challenge to make a…
Berry/ breakfast/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ holidays/ Nut/ quick cake
Pecan-Cranberry Loaf | Baking with Dorie
It’s never too early to start assembling recipes for Thanksgiving. Pecan and cranberry are the quintessential ingredients that add pizzazz to any Thanksgiving menu. When Dorie…
The herb-butter chicken from Everyday Dorie is the ultimate no-recipe recipe that’d serve you well for years to come. Whip it up in a moment’s notice…
These devil’s thumbprints are fun to play with. What I did differently than Dorie was the filling on the cookies. She recommends raspberry and chocolate fillings.…
This is not exactly the fancy blood orange cake my family adores which we bake only on special occasions. Then there is this candied orange cake…
classics/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fish/ foundation recipe/ French
Flounder Meunière with Onion-Walnut Relish | Everyday Dorie
Le meunière is “the miller’s wife” in French. It’s a classic technique of sautèing fish fillets in melted butter until a nutty brown, then finish it…
Szalotka is Polish dessert that I’ve never heard of. Dorie Greenspan, in her cookbook Baking with Dorie, speaks fondly about the Polish szarlotka which reminds her…
The brown sugar-spice cake with warm spices and fruits marks the fall — despite the fact that the outside temperature has been unseasonably warm. I baked…
Bake/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ whole wheat/ year round
Banana Breakfast Squares | Baking with Dorie
I am having the banana breakfast squares with my morning coffee as I’m writing today’s post. Morning is a good time to write and to refuel.…
Appetizer/ Bake/ classics/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ summer/ vegetarian
Giverny Tomatoes | Everyday Dorie
Dorie Greenspan’s Giverny tomatoes are inspired by a similar confit dish served in a restaurant in Giverny. Claude Monet’s house and famous garden is located there;…
Asian/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fish/ French/ mezze (small plates)
French-Asian Salmon Rillettes | Everyday Dorie
Which rillette variation should I make? 1) The classic honey-mustard salmon, 2) the miso-salmon or 3) the French-Asian salmon rillettes. The common ingredient is the salmon…
Bake/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Side/ summer
Double-Corn Tomato Crisp | Baking with Dorie
When Dorie starts the recipe description with: There’s a time…, I feel compelled to hear her out in its entirety. (See the quote below.) I can…
We are fortunately that we don’t have too many days of triple-digit heat in the New York area. But the ongoing heat wave, together with the…
Berry/ cheese/ Chocolate/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan
Very Cherry Cheesecake-Chocolate No-Bake Bars | Baking with Dorie
There are layers upon layers of intrigue and flavors. I change things around using cherries instead of strawberries. The results have been mixed, but mostly positive,…
I’ve made berry and/or fruit desserts in all shapes and forms—galette, cobbler, tart, cake. But for mixed berry pies, they do not get a whole lot…
July 21st is Australia’s National Lamington Day which celebrates the creation of a square piece of cake that’s covered in chocolate and coated in shredded coconut.…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ one-pan/ Poultry
Whole Roast Chicken with Pan-Sauce Vinaigrette | Everyday Dorie
The roast chicken with pan-sauce vinaigrette sets it apart from other roast chicken dishes because it tastes France in every bite. While the chicken is roasting…
This week’s bake along with our friends at Tuesday with Dorie features the cottage berry cobbler. Berry cobbler has been one of my favorite desserts to…