Category: Food
Recipes, techniques, and other food-related things
Edna Staebler: Chocolate zucchini cake
This last summer I had a bit of a mania for looking for old-school cookbooks in secondhand shops. My rules were simple; I was not allowed to buy any books that: depend on name recognition to sell (i.e. no celebrity chefs or bloggers); were published to promote a product or…
A Latte Food: Easy cream cheese pie crust (adapted for food processor)
Aimée’s birthday cake: black bean chocolate cake with whipped ganache frosting
Hippie With A Minivan: Black bean chocolate cake
The first time I learned of this recipe was a few years ago, when a friend with celiac disease shared it with me, gushing all the while about how easy it is to make. When I first tried making it, I made my usual mistake of failing to follow the…
Andrew’s birthday cake: almond butter cake with amaretto Italian buttercream
Dairy transformations: crème fraîche and clotted cream
Original recipe: accidentally awesome cabin ice cream
Food Lab: Traditional French cassoulet
Allrecipes.com: Cottage Cheese Roast
I was looking for a recipe to use up a large container of cottage cheese that had gone untouched in the fridge for several weeks. It was starting to go sour, which meant that nobody in the house was going to eat it as is (we are picky about our…