Biscuits rose may not be the apt description for the cookies I’ve made, because I did’t use red dye to color them in the pinkish tone…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Pantry essentials
Brown-Sugar Oat Squares | Baking with Dorie
This is a quick and easy recipe that uses only basic pantry ingredients. Even bakers with limited experience can be successful in making these. All you…
Coffee shortbread has a distinct coffee flavor that you can’t miss. Less obvious is the subtle flavor of lemon zest and cardamon. Together, these shortbread cookies…
breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ make ahead/ Pantry essentials/ Side
Tender Biscuits | Baking with Dorie
Tender biscuits may be easy to do, but hard to make perfect — from my experience. The dough comes together by hand in a bowl. No…
The orange spice cake reminds me of the pecan-cranberry loaf we made last year around Thanksgiving. Fall theme, warm spices, quick one-bowl hand mixing and a…
5 ingredients or less/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ Fruit
Tarte Tatin | Baking with Dorie
I’ve made multiple attempts at tarte Tatin over the years, but haven’t been fully satisfied with the results. Every time I vowed to come back with…
breakfast/ easy everyday/ Low fat/ make ahead/ my favorites/ year round
Easy Protein Porridge Recipe for Energy Boost
I found this recipe while leafing through the bookshelves in someone’s home. The bookshelves always draw my interest, like going to a bookstore and exploring the…
classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ make ahead/ Nut
Maple-Walnut Pie | Baking with Dorie
If maple-walnut pie does not ring the bell, maple-pecan pie will. Thanksgiving is around the corner, it’s the season to make the iconic pecan pie. However,…
Asian/ breakfast/ brunch/ Poultry/ year round/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Poached Chicken Congee | Ottolenghi Comfort
This is the first recipe from Ottolenghi’s new cook book, Comfort. It is poached chicken congee. It is not a complicated dish, but may take sometime…
breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ Nut/ quick cake/ year round
Morning Bundt Cake | Baking with Dorie
I want to have a piece of the morning bundt cake, together with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and latte for breakfast. There is…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ Fruit/ quick cake/ scalable/ summer/ year round
Butter Cake with Peaches | The Reverse Creaming Method
These are the last-of-the-season peaches and you won’t find the sweet white and yellow peaches any longer until next summer. However, this recipe is good for…
autumn/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ featured/ Fruit
Apple Galette with Caramel Applesauce | Baking with Dorie
There are a few apple galettes I make: French country style, apple with calvados, or a tart with apple compote. The common elements are the sweet…
There are changes in the air: peaches are giving way to late-summer figs in the farmers’ market. I grab a few cartoons of black figs, some…
Berry/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites/ scalable
Alsatian-Style Blueberry Tart | Baking with Dorie
There are a few of my favorite things to which I’ll keep going back. Blueberry tart is among the top of the heap. I can’t agree…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ make ahead
Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies | Baking with Dorie
There are several unexpected elements — in a good way about the caramel crunch-chocolate chunklet cookies. First off, there is no caramel in the ingredient list…
The idea of a parfait-layered vacherin is an unfamiliar one for me. Never before have I made or tasted one. The biggest assist comes when I…
Berry/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ summer
Lemony Yogurt Muffins with Blueberries | Baking with Dorie
Muffins with a lot of blueberries folded into them are Dorie’s go-to as well as her template for fruit muffins. I love blueberry muffins and I’m…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ summer
Strawberry-Rhubarb Squares | Baking with Dorie
Strawberry and rhubarb is a classic paring as well as a perfect summer dessert in the form of a cake. In this recipe in Baking with…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ scalable
Jelly Roll Cake Unlike Any Other | Baking with Dorie
Starting off with the classic jelly roll cake recipe from Baking with Dorie, I ended up with a version that’s unlike any other cake I’ve made.…
foundation recipe/ Low fat/ Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ my favorites/ Simmer/ vegetarian
Greek Fava and the Mediterranean Diet
Spending part of May in Greece and tasting a variety of the Greek classics drive home the notion of eating locally, seasonally and farm-to-table. Among all…
cheese/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ puff pastry
Vermont Cheddar Gougères | Baking with Dorie
The more times I work with the choux or the cream puff dough, the more I find myself enjoying the process. We’ve made a few of…
Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites
Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream | Baking with Dorie
The recipe of cream puffs with crackle and cream contains the classic and noteworthy dough and the filling. In our house, we’re obsessed with the pâte…
Dorie quoted a friend in the saying: “anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” The reference to overdoing is about the caramel flavor which is front and…
breakfast/ cheese/ cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ Mediterranean/ quick bread
Goat Cheese Black Pepper Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie
It’s the season first when I harvest the fresh crop of mint from my perennial herb patch amid the drizzling misty spring rain. Mint is the…
The Parisian custard tart does transport me back to Paris, very much like the French cheesecake. What’s the two have in common is the blackened or…