I haven’t had a lot of time to experiment with hand pies, and to be honest, my desire to mess around with different kinds of recipes is not what it used to be. That’s why I count myself fortunate to have come across this recipe, because even though I thought…
It’s been a while since my last post, but I haven’t been idle; mead-making has been taking up most of my creative cycles. However, after hearing about the relative success of Operation Pantry Clearout, a friend recently unloaded the contents of her freezer on to me, which included a sizable…
I’m on a quest to use up pantry items and free up some space, while making tasty things while I’m at it. I have my eye on clearing out the space currently used by applesauce, because I honestly don’t use it that much on a day-to-day basis. Growing up, apples…
Invariably, after making an angel food cake, the pressing question becomes “what do I do with all of these yolks?” Usually the answer is some form of custard; for me, it’s David Lebovitz’s vanilla ice cream recipe. This time, I didn’t have the cream on hand to make ice cream,…
Forever ago, I found a chart that listed all of the readily available non-wheat flours and their properties, for the purpose of helping people bake gluten-free things more easily. I can’t find that chart, so I’m looking around for other options now, and here’s what I’ve found so far. Between…
For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about Southern food. It started when I found a smoked pork hock at my nearby grocery store, which was unusual enough for them to carry that I took notice of it the next few times I was shopping and finally bought after…
Today the fridge decided not to work. This was a situation no doubt aided by the fact that the edge of a block of butter had prevented the freezer from closing completely, leading to the fridge’s cold air intake frosting over. After getting all of the perishables into a cooler…
Hey, come on — don’t laugh at me. I know that all of the with-it food bloggers have moved on to newer, hipper, underexposed sources for their recipes, but this is my recipe book, not a place to prove my hipster cred. A long-time friend introduced me to these cookies…
This year, the russet apple saplings I brought to my parents seven or so years ago finally bore fruit. I needed a pie crust recipe to turn some of them into my dad’s favourite dessert, and Deb’s recipes at Smitten Kitchen hadn’t steered me wrong so far, so I decided to…
Just a quick entry this time. I made these cookies in parallel with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, since I wanted to try a little something different from the usual. The cookies turned out just fine, but I think my personal tastes run toward something less sweet…
