Christmas goodie-making time began on Monday night with an untried recipe which was a result of looking at half a dozen recipes for molasses caramels, choosing the one which appealed most because it doesn’t have corn syrup and having a go, changing it a bit. My family loves molasses and also a dark caramel custard. … More Molasses Caramels, Star of the Day
There was Thanksgiving frost on the stairs and driveway this morning at 8:30. I’m thankful that the threatened snow earlier in the week stayed in the mountains where the snow bunnies and water table may benefit. The first scent of the day was, naturally, coffee, but I’ve just saluted the frost with the aroma of … More Thanksgiving, Great Yearly, Made Great Again
In the summer and autumn of 2014, while spending part of every week at my mother’s house and having an abundance of fresh fruits from the garden, trees and eastern Washington, I learned how to make ice cream without an ice cream maker or rock salt. It began with a recipe for rhubarb ice cream … More Raspberries and Cranberries, Already Great, Made Great Again
Last night, as dinner was on the stove and with an accompaniment in the oven, I mixed a batch of cookie dough for another experiment in fillings, in high hopes that the result would be the third offering of a peppermint-related cookie trio. There are already two unique and well-proven members of that trio, typically … More Peppermint Cream Snicks, Maybe
It’s the season for pumpkin, the savory and the sweet. We see pumpkins in big piles at the grocery stores and some of us start jonesing for a familiar taste. I hear about pumpkin this and pumpkin that, pumpkin spice in a latte, pumpkin soup, pumpkin couscous and my inner baker reminds me that it’s … More Pumpkin Spice Joneses, One Variation
I have a wonderful family living in the bottom half of this house-turned-duplex. I bake all their birthday cakes because I love them and I love to bake. The oldest child turned 14 this past summer and I made her the Dark Chocolate Caramel Cake in the first photo for her birthday. It was taller … More Making Chocolate Caramel Cake and Scrapbooks Great Again
The homepage cookie photo, taken by my mother, is of Limey Joneses. It’s one of my signature cookies, made for an Englishwoman who had a sudden Jones for a soft lime cookie when I told her that I’d developed a whole line of unique, gourmet, soft, iced and decorated cookies that I call Joneses. Incidentally, … More Limey Joneses
Five weeks ago I made a batch of the Cinnamon Snicks, those filled with salted caramel, delivered some to Grandma Pat along with some Peanut Butter Snicks also filled with salted caramel, and froze 15 of the filled Cinnamon Snick cookie dough balls. The purpose was to test whether the frozen dough balls, when baked, … More Salted Caramel Filled Cinnamon Snicks, From Frozen State
The pear and maple trees in the front yard are so pretty. Nevermind that the leaves have to be swept off the porch daily. I did that last night, yet this morning, this is what greeted me. What do the pretty leaves have to do with a cooking blog? Pumpkin, apple and sage? Nope. If … More Autumn Leaves, Caramel-filled Mexican Chocolate Snicks
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