Day 2, and on to some chocolate.

I am not a chocolate eater, but I know that I am a rare in that, so I have learned to both turn out and appreciate a good chocolate dessert.  These Brownie… Read the rest of this post

I’ve missed several weeks, being away, but I’m back on the challenge wagon now – and what a bread to start back with, but a Casatiello bread! It’s a rich, buttery, brioche-like dough, with salami and cheese sprinkled throughout…kind… Read the rest of this post

Amazing how an innocent comment on Twitter can get entirely out of hand.  Poor Nicole (of Pinch My Salt)  – just a question if anyone would want to try working their way through The Bread… Read the rest of this post

So, things have been a bit busy and I’m behind on the challenge.  Actually I did make these in week three – on Sunday, for a goodbye party for a friend of mine who was heading off to join… Read the rest of this post

I had sketched out my list of recipes at the beginning of this  12 days of cookies challenge – but once I saw Jerry’s post on the Pecan Tassies, I knew I had to have them.  A… Read the rest of this post

I call them thumbprints, the boy calls them jelly tops, Gourmet called them Strawberry Tarts. But there is one universal name:

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

These wonderful tiny shortbread-like cookies with jelly filling are a bite of warm weather in… Read the rest of this post

By far the prettiest cookies I’ve done so far, this Anise-Scented Fig And Date Swirls cookie recipe was also more complicated than most, requiring the making of the fruit puree, mixing, cooling, and rolling out of the… Read the rest of this post

Our Thanksgiving menu is usually the same each year – perfect turkey, sweet potato casserole, green beans, pumpkin pie.  This year, I added our daring baker’s challenge - Caramel Cake by Shuna Fish Lydon of eggbeater.

The… Read the rest of this post