Just Baking

Terrine anyone?.
That sound so chic? don’t you think? Another sentence that I love to hear is: “Pass me the terrine, please”. A little while ago, we were 10 around the table and suddenly the words were spoken, it was like the hurly-burly had suddenly paused and I could only hear these words, I wish I […]

Talk about bad luck; Baking up a storm with less than a day standing between me and the ice cream party in Brooklyn, and disaster strikes. It’s a long story, but let me just tell you that I found myself with a sink full of glass and one less baking dish in my pantry. Flooded […]

Sugar and spice and everything nice . . . that’s exactly what you’ll find in these yummy Sugar and Spice Gingerbread Biscotti. With the homey flavor of gingerbread and the satisfying crunch of biscotti, these cookies deliver the best of both worlds. And, unlike many biscotti, these aren’t rock-hard, so if the idea of cookie […]

This is a slightly modified version of Michael Chiarello’s recipe. My wife is a huge bread pudding fan, and I love chocolate. The Jack Daniels makes it all that much better. Until now, I didn’t know “Jack” about bread pudding.
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 large eggs, lightly […]

Valentine’s Day is over, but the bonding of love is eternal. So it really doesn’t matter what time of the year it is for you to make sweet treats for your family! It also gives me a chance to practise my hand at a little culinary art, so this week I made my first edible […]

It is certainly no secret that I love cupcakes, and with a five-year-old son, any time I have a craving, we can make a batch and send the rest into school with him. Trust me, the sooner the temptation is out of the house, the better. Recently, the folks at AOL Food put together their […]

I have gone mad, as mad as a hatter, completely cracker-pot. I am not certain I have ever done this before, usually I am rather good, buying local(ish) food: fruits and vegetables in season, trying to minimise their carbon foot-prints. Until a few weeks ago, I was happy pushing my trolley in a supermarket, I […]

I am a person bounded to my life by circumstances. I was born and raised in a small Kansas town. Altamont, KS was a town of 1,000 people and it really was a great place to grow up. It is the kind of place where, as a kid, we could walk the streets past […]

Okay, I’ll admit it: I don’t love whole wheat! But I do love experimenting with recipes that use whole wheat in a way that camouflages the rather strong (to me, anyway) flavor of it. To that end, I’ve made countless batches of muffins, cookies, pancakes, and quick breads with a variety of ingredients and ratios of […]

Friends, meet my latest addiction: Pierre Hermé’s Chocolate Sparklers.
Oh my, are these ever easy. The cookies are really just French Sablés, the best ones I’ve ever had. The secret to a perfect sablé is not to overmix the dough once you’ve added the flour. After that, all you have to do is roll, chill, slice, […]