Four More Years!
Congratulations to President Obama! It was a nail-biter, but he pulled it off. Now he has four more years to make his policies work—if Congress will let him. Plus, we'll have four more years of...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Best-Ever Brownies
Naming your recipe "Best-Ever" anything invites controversy. Claiming to have created the "best-ever" brownie? Well, that's downright ballsy. It's right up there with parking your car (with an Obama...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Gingerbread Baby Cakes
Actually, cupcakes. I didn't have baby cake pans (4 inches). It didn't matter. These cakes were tasty anyway. I think of them as gingerbread for grownups. If you'd like to try the recipe, you can go...
View ArticleGoodbye, Christmas. Hello, Seed Catalogs!
I hope everybody had a happy holiday! We stayed at home this year, which was very relaxing. It snowed on Christmas Eve and Kevin, #1 Son and I had a snowball fight in the morning. Kevin bought me some...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Pizza with Onion Confit
Happy New Year, Bakers! I am so glad we're cooking something savory this week. I am all sugared out from the holidays. (Except for some peanut butter fudge that I made last week. I can't stop eating...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—French Apple Tart
Let's say you just drove 355 miles from North Carolina to Maryland. What would you like to do next? Sleep? Veg out in front of the TV? No! You want to bake a French Apple Tart! Because it's Tuesday....
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—Focaccia
Congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens! I live in Maryland, why didn't I have today off work? Did you know there's actually a petition at the White House website to make the day after the Super Bowl a...
View ArticleTuesdays with Dorie — Boca Negra
Hello, everyone. I'm so happy to be hosting this month. I'm even happier that this week's recipe features DARK CHOCOLATE (and lots of it!) Although, this slender cake looks sophisticated, the recipe...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Croissants
Or, as we called them at my house, Never-Ending Croissants. If instant gratification is your thing, then croissants are not for you. These were not difficult to make, but they took a loooooong time....
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Mocha Chocolate Chips
Homemade chocolate chip cookies are like sex—even when they're not amazing, they're still pretty great. So even though this wasn't my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, I found myself polishing off...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—Rustic Potato Loaves
Hi, everybody. Spring is here! Our local baseball team, the Frederick Keys, had an "open stadium" called Keysfest on Saturday. We went out for the free hot dogs, easter egg hunt and general merriment....
View ArticleTWD — Madeleines
Good morning! How about a treat with your morning coffee? How about a dozen of them? This week's recipe is for Madeleines. If you want to bake along, you can find the entire text of the recipe at...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—Fresh Rhurbarb Upside Down Baby Cakes
Okay, actually Fresh Pineapple Upside Down Baby Cakes. I almost didn't make these, but we had pineapple left over from our Cinco de Mayo party. I whipped them up tonight after my son went to bed. These...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—Savarin
Don't let the pretty photo fool you. Today was not my day. A big project at work had one incorrect link, forcing us to reprint Module 10. (and it was my fault.) t's two weeks before convention and...
View ArticleMid-June in the Garden or Why Am I Picking Peas on Father’s Day?
My good friend Kim mentioned to me that there has been very little actual gardening in my "gardening blog". Even though I'm not doing a lot of writing, I am doing a lot of growing. Here's a progress...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie — Tomato & Cheese Galette
Sometimes it pays to watch the show. Our book, Baking with Julia, is based on the PBS series of the same name. A lot (if not all) of the original videos are available at pbs.org or YouTube. I don't...
View ArticleTuesdays with Dorie—Baked Yogurt Tart
Hi everyone! It's been a busy week. I don't have to write a more thorough post later, but here's the short version. I used blueberries, since I had a lot in the fridge. I liked the tart, though I...
View ArticleTuesdays With Dorie—Summer Vegetable Tart
Three things happened within 24 hours: Kevin, #1 son, and I got back from a 7-day vacation (Sunday afternoon), I made this tart shell (Monday morning) and our air conditioning stopped working (Monday...
View ArticleTWD — Eastern Mediterranean Pizza
Hi all! I made these for dinner last week. They were easy and delicious. I used ground beef instead of lamb. We don't eat a lot of lamb and I didn't want to make a grocery store run for a 1/4 lb. of...
View ArticleTWD—Johnny Cake Cobbler AND Raspberry-Fig Crostata
Yes. I made both. I'm glad I did. One was a big pain in the butt, but a big success. One was easy, but disappointing. Which was which? Read on and find out. But first, the Johnny Cake Cobbler video is...
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