As my regular readers know, I’m part of a group baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking Chez Moi. It’s all about Parisian French desserts, and can I just tell you? Yum! Some of the recipes are super-intricate, time-consuming, knock-your-ballerina-flats off, and others are surprisingly quick, like today’s recipe! This week’s recipe is Crispy-Topped Brown…
Desserts Not Otherwise Categorized
My Oma’s Pancake Recipe, and more of that Everlasting Ham!
I was ill a few weeks ago and after recovering, the only thing that I even felt remotely like eating, was my Oma’s (grandmother’s) pancakes. My mother always made these pancakes for Pancake Tuesday, with savoury ones for the dinner and plain ones with sugar for dessert. Mmm…pancakes! While my family calls them Oma’s pancakes, they’re actually more like…
Waste Not, Want Not: Vanilla Rum Slow-Cooker Rice Pudding
If you’ve been following along with this blog, you know by now that I LOVE dessert, and that I hate wasting food. I love dessert because obvs, and I hate wasting food because how can you justify wasting a resource when it takes such energy for the earth to produce it, and when millions of…
Rum Balls, and the Pleasure of a Shared Recipe
I’m always on the lookout for new and delicious things to make, because a) I love baking and b) I love eating and c) chocolate is my friend. So when a client at my work told me about the Brandy Balls that she always makes around the holiday season, I asked her for the recipe. She…
Fruitcake Smackdown: Marzipan-Covered Bar Form! Plus cakepops.
The DH is still overseas, so I am continuing to sublimate my worry by baking. Baking, the panacea for all worries, since…forever? I can totally see a cavewoman doing this, far back into the reaches of time. Silly caveman out on a hunt for a wooly mammoth? Sublimate worries by collecting berries and grains and…