As I’ve mentioned before, I’m part of an on-line baking group, cooking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. Today’s recipe is Granola Energy Bars. Hereafter christened Granola Extremely High Caloric Intake Energy Bars. Why? Read on, mes amis! I started out using Dorie’s base of 2 cups of oats to 2 cups of dried fruit…
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Memories of Meals Past: Easy Wine Jelly Cookies
Throwback Thursday on this blog means Memories of Meals Past! In this case, Easy Wine Jelly Cookies! Why wine jelly? Well, because…I happened to have homemade wine jelly in my fridge, and I wanted to use it up! Waste not, want not, and all that jazz. The original name of the cookie recipe is Split…
Baking Chez Moi: Rugelach Redux, Plus Palmiers
After my last post, about the Baking Chez Moi cookbook bake-a-long, where I posted about baking the Rugelach-That-Conquered-France (yes, that`s the real title in the book), I was a bit frustrated. Finicky recipe! So frustrating to work hard and then have the final product fall apart, albeit in a tasty manner. And then I went…
Baking Chez Moi: The-Rugelach-That-Conquered-France Recipe Review
I’ve been planning to bake some cookies this week to send into work with the DH. I like to do that occasionally because that way all the delicious things aren’t sitting in my home singing their siren song of temptation to me. I mean, the obvious answer is just not to bake as many delicious…
Memories of Meals Past: Chili-Topped Loaded Baked Potato
I made this chili-topped loaded baked potato for dinner maybe a year and a half ago, and it was pretty tasty! It had never occurred to me to top baked potatoes with anything like chili, as I grew up with plain baked potatoes — no unhealthy (albeit tasty!) sour cream and bacon bits and such…