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
I was gifted with a can of pumpkin to make pumpkin bread. First I soaked raisins overnight in fresh orange juice to nicely plump them. Then I tried to grate crystalized ginger but it made a gooey mess and clump so let’s hear it for the French knife and chop, chop. The recipe is typical … More Pumpkin Crystalized Ginger & Orange Raisin Bread
Having just returned from a wondrous and joy-filled 75th birthday trip to Salt Lake City sponsored by my daughter, life in Bitter Lake returns and so does Thursday afternoon Chinese mahjongg with my lady friends. While there will be a little birthday party next week for the “mother” of our local mahjongg, I decided for … More Cranberry-Strawberry Upside-Down Cake with My Recipe
I wanted a loaf of sandwich-size bread instead of round loaf and to use the quarantine bread method, that is, the make-dough-at-night-knead-lightly-in-morning-raise-in-pan-bake-in-cold-oven-to-start method. After the dough rose in the morning in the pan, I covered the pan with foil, put it in the cold oven, set the oven to 400 degrees (instead of 425 in … More Quarantine Bread in Glass Bread Pan
When I get a brainstorm about trying a new baked quick bread, well … here’s the result. Not long ago I experimented with canned pumpkin and a packet of Fresh Gourmet Honey Roasted Walnut Pieces*, made a Pumpkin Rum Raisin Honey Walnut bread, posted about it on my Instagram** and said I’d put the recipe … More New! Maple Date Honey Pecan Bread with My Recipe, and a Note about My Pumpkin Rum Raisin Honey Walnut Bread
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
I saw in my stats a few days ago that one view was referred from a blog where I found and made a previous recipe, so I used the blog search bar to find what I’d made and whom I’d credited for the recipe. When I clicked the link to the other site, I saw … More Bringing in the New Year with Butterscotch No-Bake Oaties
A couple months ago I saw a photograph of the Molasses Gingerbread Kiss Cookie* and saved the recipe in my bookmarks. Not long thereafter my neighbor was heading off to the store and I wasn’t able to go but asked her to get me the Hershey’s Kiss with stripes. While I was thinking of the … More Hershey’s Kisses & Hugs in Various Thumbprint Cookies
I read about Hummingbird Cake somewhere, sometime and decided to make it to share for my birthday this year instead of my usual Banana Nut Cake* (as a sheet cake) and ** full nuts 2017 and *** Banana Cake with Creamy Nut Frosting No Nuts. Banana nut is my favorite cake, and Hummingbird Cake is … More Hummingbird Cake Cupcakes
Last week on sale at a grocery store, I bought three one-pound bowls of fresh fruit, one of which was pineapple. I ate the melons from two bowls and decided to roast and caramelize the pineapple chunks, some of which were used in a Moroccan-spiced couscous, steamed broccoli, caramelized red bell, onion and pine nut … More New! Roasted Pineapple & Orange Bread with My Recipe & Idea for a Pretty Salad
Ms Chef in Seattle 