It’s citrus season. Get your Meyer lemons—I got a dozen yesterday—and blood oranges while they’re still around. Sweet potatoes should be plentiful in your market—they’re on sale here in the state which produces more sweet potatoes than any other. And what goes with sweet potatoes? Collards! If you see a sign for frost-kissed collards, grab …
We could make a new dish every night and we’d never run out of new recipes to try thanks to Pinterest—and the rest of the internet. Here’s a few that I made this past week in case you need a new idea, and a few I may try next week. By the way, if you’re …
The only resolutions I’m making this year are kitchen resolutions. Positive resolutions – they’re “I will” declarations, not “I won’t”. In thinking about what I want to accomplish in the kitchen this year, I realized that many of these resolutions are about getting out of my comfort zone and facing projects that have intimidated me …
“Two pushes, Deirdre, two pushes!” I wish my inner kitchen coach had yelled that at me when I was working my new cookie press for the first time. A few hours after I made these cookies, I was thinking about how to describe them for Bitten Word’s 2014 Cover to Cover Project: Holiday Cookies. I …
If I bake only one pie for Christmas this year, this is it. It’s been a few years since I made a maple pecan pie. I used to always follow the Fanny Farmer (aka Marion Cunningham) recipe and it was fine. But this! This is freaking fabulous. God bless the cooking geeks in America’s Test …
This is the famous Cook’s Illustrated recipe – their “foolproof pie dough” made with vodka. I’m no fool, but I can vouch that it’s a really easy dough to work with and the crust is tender, flaky, and tasty. The vodka isn’t a gimmick. Alcohol limits the development of gluten. As a result, this pastry …
As long as I can remember, my mother has made Russian Teacakes at Christmas. She still does. I expect to see a container of them when I visit soon, if not I’ll make some. Your family may have another name for these melt-in-your-mouth cookies — butterballs, snowballs, or Mexican wedding cakes. I think the Italians …
These Italian fig cookies (aka cucidati) have become a favorite Christmas recipe at our house. Make a big batch and freeze some for a special treat later. ~~~ I love Italian cookies. My grandmother’s neighborhood in East Cambridge, Massachusetts had a fantastic Italian bakery, Royal Pastry Shop. Whenever we went to my grandparents, she would send …
How to pit cherries using a beer bottle, a life skill I’m glad I have now, plus a recipe for Cherry Crumble, but I really think it should be called Cherry Crisp since it doesn’t include oats in the topping. Baking semantics. ~~~ I never make anything with fresh cherries because they take so long …
I used to be pretty handy with yeast. I would go through phases where I played around with baking breads, breakfast pastries and pizza. There’s nothing like the smell of bread or croissants baking in the oven. In Arlington I lived across the street from a really good pastry shop (the one I eventually worked …
Grabbing the Gusto 