This is a weekday chicken udon soup which is every bit as satisfying as a similar soup served in your local ramen shops — but budget…
autumn/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit
Cranberry Spice Squares | Baking with Dorie
I baked this recipe twice, not by choice. What happened was I forgot to put in the half teaspoon of baking soda. As you’d expect, there…
Appetizer/ mezze (small plates)/ my favorites/ Poultry/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Sticky Wings and Pickled Things | Ottolenghi
An evening at home streaming a Hollywood movie and serving up sticky wings and pickled things may be the perfect entertainment or a cozy retreat. Can’t…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe/ Fruit
Caramel-Pear & Five-Spice Upside-Down Cake | A Better Method
When a recipe like the caramel-pear and five-spice upside-down cake comes out right the first time, it’s time to break out a happy dance. There are…
brunch/ cheese/ cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ meal type/ quick cake
Blue Cheese Bites | Baking with Dorie
The blue cheese bites are two-bite morsels which deliver a cheesy and fruity flavor. In Baking with Dorie, the suggested ingredients for the blue cheese bites…
Ready to cut up two and a half pounds of apples to make a caramel-apple crisp? It’s apple season; even doubling or tripling the amount of…
Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ Seafood/ vegetarian
Scallops with Roasted Catalan Sauce | José Andrés
We are welcoming José Andrés as the current featured chef at I Heart Cooking Club whose members will be cooking and blogging his recipes. Very few…
Galettes, sweet or savory, are one of my favorite pies to bake. What’s there not to like? Galettes are free form, very little wasted dough, easy…
Financiers in little blocks of gold they are named after are the “gold” standard. However, it shouldn’t stop us from experimenting with shapes other than rectangular…
These java mini mads are full of surprises — in a good way. Dorie previews that they are madeleines cookies masquerading as tiny tea cakes. That’s…
Berry/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ Fruit
Berry Flognarde | Everyday Dorie
The term berry flognarde throws me off, but you don’t have to. As Dorie Greenspan explains: A flognarde (flow-nyard) is a custardy French dessert of fruit…
cheese/ Cream/ dessert/ Fruit/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Apricot and Amaretto Cheesecake | Ottolenghi’s Sweet
The apricot and amaretto cheesecake is not something you can easily find in a bakery. I’d pay for an apricot cheesecake like this one made with…
Making the honey lavender ice cream, I’ve found out the remarkable flavor affinity between honey and lavender. This is not a flavor pairing I’ve put together…
Berry/ breakfast/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday
Crumb-Topped Ricotta Coffee Cake | Baking with Dorie
Dorie compares the crumb-topped ricotta coffee cake to fond memories she has of a store-bought cake just like it. I can’t really relate to that since…
Berry/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ quick cake
Cornmeal-Buttermilk Loaf Cake with Berries | Everyday Dorie
The cornmeal-buttermilk loaf cake with berries and the cornmeal skillet cake share the same recipe, except they are baked in different pans. I first baked the…
Bake/ Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ spring/ summer
Strawberry & Rhubarb Tart | Everyday Dorie
“They grow together, ripen at about the same time,” Dorie refers to rhubarb and strawberries in Everyday Dorie. When you see the giant stalks of rhubarb…
Dorie baked the blueberry-cherry pie for her husband and son on Father’s Day 2020 because this is a pie that’d make both of them happy. So…
Give me a mochaccino muffin with the morning java. That’d surely make my day; it will also lighten my heart and waken my senses. What…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ featured/ foundation recipe/ French/ Gluten free/ Nut
Parisian Macarons | Dorie Greenspan
Parisian macarons were the first cookie I learnt to bake. I mean, before then, I’ve not baked much of anything. It sounds so incredulous that I…
Dorie Greenspan/ mezze (small plates)/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ Toss
Black Bean Chipotle Dip | Everyday Dorie
With a can of black bean, a few other ingredients and a food processor, you’d get the black bean chipotle dip in just a matter of…
Bake/ breakfast/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ puff pastry/ spring
Asparagus-Lemon Quiche | Baking with Dorie
Spring 2022 is such a contrast in mood and activities as compared to that of the last two years. The changes can’t be more dramatic!…
mezze (small plates)/ spring/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Yogurty Butter Beans with Pistachio | Yotam Ottolenghi
This is the kind of mezze that welcomes spring when the days are getting longer and our appetite is getting lighter. Grab a can of…
For some reasons, there is no lemon tart on my blog before this one. That surprises me. In retrospect, it is not the result from a…
Making meringue is the direction I go from time to time whenever there are excess egg whites around — or not. There are many ways to…
The Japanese soufflé pancakes are the novelty pancakes people would patiently wait in line for in the East Village. Their claim to fame is the fluffy…