A friend in NY told me she used to have lavender a lot in food as a kid, and that I should look into lavender bread (pursuant my continual rosemary bread obsession). This is based on the first good-looking lavender bread recipe I could find, though, and it’s a somewhat sweet non-yeast bread that relies [...]
Posts under ‘Dessert’
As in “happy as a”
Here are some facts about clams:
They are delicious! While they steam they emit this stunningly tasty broth. Look into it.
They are cheap, esp. for seafood! $5/lb is the price for Manila clams down at the Berkeley Bowl, and that is definitely enough to feed two people.
When you buy them… they are STILL ALIVE. Creepy, eh?
This [...]
Café Zuni chicken dinner and poached pears
The other day I made my very first “real” chicken dinner. I had been meaning to try this recipe for roast chicken, but I didn’t want it to suck and then leave my three roommates hungry. They’re all back in snowy Virginia now, so I thought it would be a good time to try.
The recipe [...]
Merry Christmas cookies
Christmas (and Hanukkah) cookies! I might have gone a bit overboard with the dinosaur cookie cutter.
Dark chocolate-dipped hazelnut macaroons and baking disasters
So one of the problems with “I Know How to Cook” is that it is a translation, and like any translation, it is imperfect. Normally when cooking small mistakes are alright, but baking is difficult enough as it is without linguistic ambiguity making it harder. =\ The recipe below is the how I now [...]
Delicious Cake + Respberry Meringue Buttercream
Last year, Ryan gave me two cookbooks for Christmas: one devoted to cake, and one devoted to bacon. He knows me pretty well. Now, baking is still a strange and terrifying world to me. I have to battle my tendency to be extremely impatient. It stresses me out to think that the slightest deviation from [...]
apple cake in a skillet, or, how not to set your kitchen on fire
Not long ago, a bunch of medievalists I know went apple-picking, as you do here in the city named after unusually large fruit, resulting in 15 lbs of apples sitting on my kitchen floor. I did what one naturally does under these circumstances while avoiding paper-writing, and baked: first whole-wheat apple muffins with brown sugar, [...]
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
Delicious soft pumpkin cookies, just in time for Halloween. Not that you should stop making them once the holiday is over.
cinnamon raisin scones + lemon glaze
Help I can’t stop baking! This was today’s. I think the sweetness of the glaze balances out the cinnamon well, and I’m also hoping it will help the scones keep a little bit better by keeping them slightly more moist – they’re normally quite disappointing after the first day (although this recipe is unusually flaky [...]
apple pie
Way back for the Fourth of July, I was charged with making apple pies for our “cookout” (indoors, with air conditioning). This was also when I learned that the Bronx is apparently secretly obsessed with pies?
I used a recipe recommended by these fine people, Grandma Opel’s apple pie. It’s somewhat nontraditional in that you make [...]