Peerless Chocolate Cake
This cake from the Fannie Farmer Baking Book has become Carol’s go-to chocolate cake. It is rather complex with a separate pudding-like filling and a buttercream frosting. She most recently made it for Vivie’s birthday.
Author: jgrusse
Quick Cinnamon Rolls
Very good cinnamon rolls can be made for breakfast in about 40 minutes if they are based on biscuit dough rather than yeast dough. Here is how I made them this morning for two people, combining Buttermilk Biscuits for Two with some ideas in Cooks Illustrated’s The Quick Recipe. These could easily be scaled up Read More …
Sawdust Pie
This is a rather unconventional pie with a filling of graham cracker crumbs, coconut, and pecans bound together with egg whites, and which looks rather like coarse sawdust. It is apparently of Amish origin. I spotted a recipe for it on Epicurious.com, and it looked intriguing. It was not until I was actually making it Read More …
Lasagna
Thekitchn.com recently had an article in which they raved about allrecipies.com’s “World’s Best” lasagna. That was intriguing, so I had to make it. My adaptation turned out very well. Note that the amount of sauce made for the lasagna is more than is actually needed, so you will have a few cups to use as Read More …
Italian Sausage Roll
I recently made a batch of Pizza Dough from The Pizza Bible. This is enough for 4 servings. I used one half on Friday night for a Pissaladiere, substituting sardines for my usual anchovies. It turned out very well. I was looking around for something to do with the other half and spotted a recipe Read More …
Southern Sausage Roll
This is half a batch of buttermilk biscuits encasing a browned and split 4 oz. smoked sausage, some grated cheddar, and pickled jalapenos. It was a fairly quick and tasty breakfast
Aroz Blanco
This flavored Mexican rice is easy to make. This version is an adaptation from Esteban Castillo’s Chicano Eats and will serve 4 people. As shown in the photo, we served it with a spicy shrimp dish. 2 Tbs. salted butter 3 cloves garlic, finely sliced 1 cup basmati or other long grain rice 1-3/4 cups Read More …
Salade Nicoise with Sous-Vide Tuna
We frequently eat Salade Nicoise, usually with good quality oil-packed canned tuna. I had seen an article on cooking tuna sous-vide in oil and decided to use that for the tuna part of the salad. That involved sprinkling the two sides of the tuna with kosher salt and letting it dry brine in the refrigerator Read More …
Small Blue Cheese
In process This is my first attempt at a cheese with mold. I followed the Petit Blue recipe and video by Gavin Webber, an Australian cheese-maker. I made one major mistake while making the cheese. I was supposed to add the salt to the curds before draining, but it was after I was well along Read More …
Five Minute Hummus
This is an adaptation of a very quick hummus recipe in Michael Solomonov’s book Israeli Soul. In practice it did take longer than 5 minutes, but it was still very quick. I cut back the amount of tahini in the original recipe since I just could not bring myself to use a full 8 oz., Read More …