I saw a recipe for Pumpkin Brownies last autumn and planned to make them as part of my Christmas baking, but I fell, sustained two broken feet, could not stand for lengthy periods, which meant no Christmas baking. The original recipe* isn’t mine and I adapted it to my own prefences, specifically, the use of … More Pumpkin and Fudge Brownies
Baking for Saturday Music Night has now become a habit and yesterday was no exception. I had a can of sweetened condensed milk which needed using so I searched my recipes until Aunt Nettie’s Lemon Squares caught my eye. I hadn’t made them in years, usually going with the more common egg-and-lemon topping over a … More Aunt Nettie’s Lemon Squares with Oatmeal Crust
The resident lady who hobby is our flower gardens has a birthday today. She likes lemon cake so I made a 3-layer lemon cake, fresh lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting. I couldn’t help myself, though. I had to decorate with Washington cherries from Rainier Fruit. And guess what’s out hopping around the lawn? … More Happy Birthday to Our Gardener
Each year I search “National Pie Day” and then calendar it because why not? Seeing it there yesterday, I had a think about what type of pie I might make today with ingredients on hand and decided on a quick breakfast quiche. If I might divert for a moment: when my daughter Maria was a … More Breakfast Egg Pie for National Pie Day
Our Mahjongg “mother” Lisa turned 86 on the 16th of September while I was in Salt Lake City celebrating my birthday with my daughter, Maria. So, we’re having a belated birthday party for Lisa today with Lemon Cream Cake I made this morning. I made the lemon curd last night since it firms as it … More Lemon Cream Cake for A Birthday
As I wrote in my previous post*, there were a few leftover Wildflower Honey Caramels. I’d made Golden Lemon Butter Cookies for my Chinese Mahjongg ladies, but one of the ladies was a no-show so there were a few leftover cookies. My brain said, “Get out the marble rolling pin, flatten some caramels and put … More There’s A New Wich in Town! Lemon and Wildflower Honey Caramel Wich
My daughter likes her peanut butter cookies with chocolate, so a few times I’ve made *Peanut Butter Wiches, filling them with chocolate fudge frosting (and sometimes, with brown sugar cream cheese frosting, but for someone other than my daughter.) One day I went wild and made a Peanut Butter Wich with the original Marshmallow Fluff … More How to make New! Open-faced Peanut Butter S’mores
Today (well, the 22nd) is the birthday of my good friend and also the belated birthday (cake) of her husband, who is also my good friend. (I usually bake a birthday cake for him, too, but wasn’t able to do so this year.) I call this cake Exquisite because it is the most beautiful and … More Exquisite Raspberry on Chocolate Fudge Cake
I baked a batch of my own recipe Peanut Butter Butter Cookies today as gratitude cookies for a group of doctors (attendings, residents and students) and nurses and various support staff at the University of Washington Medical Center Hospital but saved a few for an experiment. It worked like a slightly gooey dream and a … More I went wild: juliyya’s Peanut Butter & Marshmallow Wich
Did you notice the title said plural cakes? That’s right. I made two of these. Wednesday the 19th of October was the birthday of the Manor’s jazz pianist and he was the recipient of one of the two cakes. Last year I made him a chocolate birthday cake* but it had a fresh seedless raspberry … More Deluxe Chocolate Fudge and Raspberry Cakes
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