Made-in-my-kitchen granola is so much better. There hasn’t been any store-bought granola in my pantry ever since we started making our own. Dorie’s recipe calls for…
breakfast/ Dairy free/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Heidi Swanson/ Low fat
Chia Breakfast Bowl #101Cookbooks
If you want something healthy, delicious and, not-your-everyday fare, this is the breakfast bowl for you. No cooking is necessary. Have you tried chia seeds for…
A hot chocolate is my preferred drink at the ski lodge when I desperately needed to warm up my freezing fingers and toes from the…
breakfast/ Gluten free/ Ina Garten/ Pantry essentials/ Side
Country Omelet | Warm Hearty Breakfast to Jumpstart the Day
I don’t have a list of 2018 resolutions. But I can single out one priority I want to do more often: get a warm hearty breakfast…
Didn’t know making panettone was a challenge until I read a recent article on the New York Times referring to this traditional Italian bread as “the…
dessert/ featured/ Other Sweets/ pastry/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Saffron, Orange and Honey Madeleines | Giving Thanks
I so look forward to the Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends, while enjoying some good home-cooked Thanksgiving staples. It helps tremendously when you know your…
Chocolate/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Gluten free
Chocolate Cakes with Dulce de Leche and Fleur de Sel
These individual chocolate cakes with dulce de leche and fleur de sel came out of the oven like earth cakes. I called them earth cakes for…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ my favorites/ summer/ Sweet
Brown Butter Peach Tourte | Tuesdays with Dorie
This brown butter peach tourte came out better and bigger than I’ve expected. The caramelized brown butter makes for a fragrant tourte. Furthermore, I made the…
classics/ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall/ mezze (small plates)/ Roast/ Side/ summer
Baba Ganoush | #Eggplant and Tahini
Do you know that botanically speaking, eggplant is a fruit? It is a member of the solanum or nightshade family, like the tomato or potato. First of…
Artisan bread/ breakfast/ Fruit/ Mark Bittman/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ Simmer
Quick Low-Sugar Tomato Jam | #Tomato
I can’t think of a better and enduring way to capture the sunshine of summer than a jar of tomato jam. Spread it on a crusty…
Bake/ breakfast/ Cream/ dessert/ Fruit/ my favorites/ summer
Stone Fruits Clafoutis or Dutch Baby in a Cast-Iron Pan
Cherries, apricots and peaches are at their seasonal best. They are sweet, juicy and luscious; there is nothing I want to eat more. The season for…
The Savoy cake is one of the oldest in the French repertoire. Whether it is French or Italian, is the subject of debate. Leaving that aside,…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ my favorites/ Nut
Plain & Simple Almond Cake – Gluten-Free (Tuesdays with Dorie)
Making a cake usually involves four ingredients. This recipe needs only three. Nothing more than its magic trinity of ingredients–eggs, sugar and almond flour, according to…
This is a classic dessert that I swear I’d make in my kitchen – some day. I have the shallow gratin dishes and a kitchen torch…
Merveilleux is a sandwich of two light meringues welded with whipped cream, and then coated with whipped cream all around and dusted with chocolate shavings. I…
I don’t seem to be able to shake the drag of a developing cold and a scratchy throat. All I can think about is to find…
The Breakfast Book, is one of the most enduring cookbooks of its time from Marion Cunningham, a food writer and advocate of home cooking, who served…
Who could have thought of using blueberries and corn with the iconic Philadelphia cream cheese to make a cool summer tart like this? I have…
July 4th is right around the corner. I need to come up with a dessert to bring to a celebration party far away from home. So…
These extra moist lemon cakes came about from Yotam Ottolenghi and his team cooking their way through the dessert recipes for his new book, yet…
breakfast/ Fruit/ Low fat/ Pantry essentials/ quick bread/ Sweet
French Toast with Microwave Brioche, Berry Sauce and Vegan Whip Cream
French toast is great for weekend breakfasts, especially with company. It takes more time to prepare but its elegant taste and look is making up for…
Tarte Tropézienne, a popular cake in Saint-Tropez pastry shops, was described by Pierre Hermé to be mythique. At least that was how Dorie Greenspan recounted…
This salted butter caramel-chocolate mousse is rich and decadent. You would surely expect that from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. I made half of the…
Nothing can get me out of bed faster than the stirring aroma of food or java from the kitchen. The trouble is: I’m the primary cook…
Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest. This hazelnut baby cake is a good example of that. At first glance, it is a basic quick bread…