Cake Pop Birthday
Make a nice chocolate cake – a simple genoise. Let cool. Use a spoon or small ice cream scoop or melon baller and make the cake into balls. Form then firmly onto a lollypop stick. Dip each ball into a tempered chocolate ganache. And let cool slightly. Roll the warm
Lemon Blueberry Olive Oil Cake
My old recipe for an olive oil (instead of butter) cake was a gluten free one, but was always a little flat, and gummy. I added more eggs – six – to try to increase the loft, and add a little spelt flour, but still didn’t love the texture.
Nan’s Birthday Cake
June 1 – Lecture at the Lensic For Nan’s birthday month, we went to hear photographer,Chris Rainier (Cultures on the Edge), at the Lensic, after having drinks at Hervé Wine Bar – best white wine: 631 Malvasia-Riesling; red: D.H. Lescombes Limited Release Cabernet Franc. We sampled the tuna tartare –
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Mac & Cheese – 2 Ways
a) Pasta, chili & cheddar and b)Asparagus, mozzarella, lemon Recipe for Mac & Cheese with Mushrooms & Green Chili Preheat oven to 350F Put on a large pot to boil When boiling add 1/2 lb of pasta Time for 10 minutes While waiting for pasta, sauté mushrooms, garlic (and any
Thin Giardeniera Pizza
Reading a story about thin Midwestern pizza in the New York Times food section by J. Kenji-Lopez-Alt, I began to think about all my favorite pizzas, and front of mind was my hometown go-to: the LaCasa pizza of my childhood in Omaha, Nebraska. LaCasa’s is the crust that is thin,
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Macaroni & Cheese BBQ
Cheese – grated Guyère – will melt into a creamy sauce to surround a mound of great noodles and easily become the comfort food staple Mac ‘n Cheese. Simply boil the noodles for about 10 minutes until they are slightly less than perfectly done. You can use the pan you’ll
World Peace Cookies
A favorite cookie for Christmas is the chocolate in chocolate cookie I attribute to Dorie Greenspan, and have seen printed in the New York Times. Her desserts and French recipes are usually great, and this one is perfect. I make a large batch, roll into three logs and store in
Beet & Pear Cake
Birthday Cake made for a friend Pat said her Kindle got her through the pandemic and so it was the decor of this sheet cake made for a summer evening, outdoor birthday party, and served with Lemon Olive Oil Ice Cream. Moist like a carrot cake, red like a red
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Bread – pure whole wheat
Three kinds of Colorado grown, locally milled flour have tempted us to make a pure whole-wheat bread, something as beautiful as the bread on the cover of the book we’d just gifted ourselves – Tartine by Chad Robertson, a bread baker from San Francisco.We start an experiment: three levains –