As I mentioned in my last blog baking at Passover can be quite challenging. I discovered this recipe many years ago in Chicago, most likely from an issue of the Chicago Tribune Food Guide featuring Passover Dessert Recipes. We are going to mys sister’s this year for our Seder, and I volunteered to bring the…
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Passover Lemon Sponge Cake
Passover begins tomorrow evening at sunset. Celebrated in commemoration of the Exodus of Egypt it is one of the world’s oldest continually observed Jewish festivals still retaining its ancient charm even in today’s world. Today, despite the spread of Jews throughout the world, the eight-day festival maintains its family character and begins with the traditional…
Banana Cream Tart
Banana cream pie has always been one of my favorite desserts. It simply oozes comfort between the satiny smooth banana filling and the light and airy sweet whipped cream. I was so excited when I found the recipe for the banana cream pie served at Bubby’s Pie Co. Restaurant in New York City. This restaurant …
Carrot Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cake?… Carrot Cupcakes? However you slice it, what a way to get your veggies! This recipe I’ve had for twenty plus years, and have no idea where it came from, but if I had to guess I would say the Chicago Tribune Food Guide. It is written for a bundt pan, but I’ve always…
VALENTINE CUPCAKES Turn your favorite chocolate cake recipe into cupcakes, frost with my fluffy white frosting, to which you add a drop of red food coloring to give it a hint of pink, and top with a heart shaped candy! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Ultimate Banana Bread
In the August, 2010 issue of Cook’s Illustrated there was an article mentioned on the cover that caught my eye…Extreme Banana Bread along with a descriptive reading Six Bananas in One Loaf. I quickly skimmed the article, and knew I had to buy the magazine and try it. The author was totally in synch with…
Caramelized Baked Apple
I know I mentioned in my last post that it was time to lighten up after all the rich holiday food we’ve eaten during the holidays. But, when I found myself with a few Cortland apples and one Granny Smith a bit past their prime, a small amount of salted caramel sauce (left over from…
PASTRY FOR DOUBLE CRUST PIE ( pastry for 2 double crust pies) This is the pie crust I have chosen to use with the Salted Caramel Apple Pie recipe on the following post. It came from a Spiced Apple Pie recipe I make that appeared in a Bon Appetit magazine from February, 1998. It is…
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Salted Caramel Apple Pie
My best friend’s birthday was this week. We’ve been friends for twenty-two years, going back to when we first moved into our new homes on the same street of a spanking new development. Although she and her family moved from Cleveland, and we moved from Chicago, we were each experiencing the same feelings of excitement,…
Chocolate Bonbons
Recently I made these Chocolate Bonbons to take to my sister’s. She shared them with her neighbor, who recently sent me a message asking if I would share the recipe with her because her family really loved them. So here it is… This recipe comes from one of the first cookbooks I purchased when I…