This scrumptious Banana Bundt Cake comes from Dorie Greenspan, a well known cookbook author, cook and baker extradorinaire. Her newest book, Everyday Dorie, comes out today. I haven’t seen it yet, but Dorie describes it as filled with over 125 simple recipes which you can make with supermarket ingredients you’ve got in your pantry and…
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Lemon Sponge Cake
Every fall The Jewish New Year begins with a 10 day period of prayer and self-reflection which is ushered in on Rosh Hashanah, and closes on Yom Kippur, or what is better known as The Day of Atonement. We were traveling for the beginning of the New Year, (more about that later), but were back…
Summer Fruit Bowl
With summer fruit at its peak why not consider filling a trifle bowl with colorful melon balls, pineapple, kiwi, berries, grapes or whatever combinations you prefer? Agreed it is a bit time consuming to use the melon baller instead of simply cutting up a melon (which you could also do and still arrange it in…
Blueberry, Almond and Lemon Cake
I first saw this recipe for the Blueberry, Almond and Lemon Cake above in the New York Times Online Cooking Column. I served it this morning when a friend came over for coffee. We both agreed it’s a keeper! The recipe comes from Yotam Ottolenghi, a well known Israeli-British chef, restaurant owner, and food writer. With…
Cherry Tarts
Last week I discovered a very small portion of left over pastry dough in my freezer, and a couple of cups of bing cherries in the fridge. I decided to make a few small cherry tarts with my findings. I usually use sour cherries for cherry pie, either fresh, which have a very limited window…
Dark Chocolate Covered Coconut Macaroons
Here is the recipe for the Dark Chocolate Covered Macaroons I baked for Passover recently. Make them for any occasion you like or just for yourself. They are that good! They are so simple to make you may be surprised. If you love coconut you will love this chewy, rich treat. A quick dunk in…
Sheila’s Banana Cream Pie
I promised to post the recipe for this Banana Cream Pie which was part of my 2017 Thanksgiving dessert buffet. And since I’m becoming more proficient at typing with one hand now it seems a good time to share it with you. Good cream pies are a favorite of mine, particularly banana and coconut. This Banana…
Plum Crunch
We ushered in the Jewish New Year recently with many of the traditional sweets symbolizing our hopes for a sweet year ahead… …apples and challah bread dipped in honey, (apples and honey from the wonderful local farmer’s markets), my apple cake, my favorite honey cake, and the pastry/cookies called rugelach, which I haven’t posted as…
Cinnamon Buns
A couple of weeks ago our older son and his wife came up from LA for a weekend visit. When I asked if there was anything special I should make for their visit my daughter-in-law asked about cinnamon buns, and of course, I was happy to oblige. I remembered making an incredible recipe from Maida…
I Turned 7 Yesterday!!! Dinner at Sheila’s , that is!
When I checked my email late yesterday morning I was surprised to see an email from my friends at Tumblr informing me it was the 7th anniversary of my blog, Dinner at Sheila’s! Wow…how did I let that slip by? I told my husband I needed to create something immediately to celebrate! On the counter…