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 Tagged ‘baking’
beefs
In case you were wondering, Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon IS that complicated. Spelling it right is, too. Kim and I set out to recreate this epic dish and, even starting as a two-person team, it was still about a six-hour process. I also don’t know how Amy Adams had time to fall asleep, because there [...]
Merry Christmas cookies
Christmas (and Hanukkah) cookies! I might have gone a bit overboard with the dinosaur cookie cutter.
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, [...]
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 [...]
Sandwiches!
Sandwiches from mostly scratch.
Get That Dirt Off Ya Shoulda – Comfort Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
We all have guy/girl issues. We all dream of the day when we can be perfectly and unconditionally loved for who we are on the inside. We all hope for the day we can finally burst out of our rooms, newborn, not smelling of old clothes, takeout food, and that special kind of pheremone that [...]
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 [...]
recent foods I have baked
First I baked rosemary bread yet again, for a dinner party, following this recipe for an unkneaded peasant bread. This time it came out much much lighter, fluffier, and more delicious. Basically I followed the directions more carefully and this worked (who knew!) although I also stuck my roommate’s pizza stone in the oven while [...]
Less bad for you desserts
So, lately I’ve been into eating healthier, shopping at farmers markets, growing veggies and herbs on my balcony, trying things from my Moosewood cookbook … so I want to make my first post here about dessert. So here are two fairly easy and (maybe) not-as-unhealthy-as-they-could-be desserts..
The first is for a strawberry shake (from [...]