Perfecting Gram’s chocolate chip cookies – success!
After years of trying to perfectly recreate my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookie recipe – tweaking ingredient quantities and baking method and everything else under the sun – I FINALLY DID IT.
Posts tagged ‘recipe’
Aug 16
Chocolate coconut muffins with coconut flour
I baked something without gluten.
Yes. Even though gluten and I have a pretty close, dependent relationship (in which I depend highly on it to make tasty things), I did it. And I’ll do it again, readily.
Aug 14
Slow-cooked changes (and carnitas)
Cooking in a slow cooker is a little like slowly opening a present – unfurling ribbon curl by curl, feeling the weight and sensing the general shape of the package, and gingerly lifting paper away until you get to enjoy whatever it is inside. Or perhaps like waiting for the vegetables in your garden to ripen – watching color creep across the surface and feeling the flesh soften.
Because an hour or two into the slow cooking process you begin to sense the flavors coming together by the scents that seep out. These scents grow and begin to piece together what is to come, but it isn’t until you lift the lid at the end that you get the full picture, bombarded by a cloud of intense flavor and the scent of food that has slowly come together all day.
Jul 31
Summer cocktails: Blackberry fizz
I admit it. The number of recent cocktail posts might be a little over the top.
But let’s be honest – that’s kind of what summer is all about, right? Everything is fresh and I approach the kitchen with a sense of relaxation that finds me throwing all kinds of things into a cocktail shaker with a bit of ice, sitting in the backyard in my favorite lawn chair with only the beginning glimmer of an idea of what to make for dinner. Read more
Jul 27
Tender, crispy, rustic buttermilk blueberry muffins
There’s nothing quite so comforting on a Sunday morning as a homemade blueberry muffin.
