While my “regular” yeast bread is soft and wonderful for sandwiches, toast, or just fresh with a little butter and/or jam, it does not have that chewy crust that makes more “artisan” bread or rolls. In an effort to try to get to that crust, I have combined a very, very old recipe with some…
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“Royal Raspberry Cake”
As those who know me can attest, my style of cooking has always been pretty freeform, with approximate measures–even when baking–more common than carefully measured out ingredients. Having this blog has been a good challenge for me, because I try never to post anything that I have not carefully measured and tried at least a…
Nectarine Quinoa Salad
This is the season when some of my favorite fruits–peaches, nectarines, and plums–begin to appear in the stores, and this year there have been some wonderful deals–signs of a good harvest? Whatever the reason, I am taking advantage and finding all kinds of good ways to use these. Now is the time for slicing them…
Split Second Cookies, and a Sad Tale about Food Blogs
The recipe at the end of this post is based on an old recipe that was very new to me when I went searching for a “jam-filled cookie” some time ago. When I found the recipe on one site, it seemed just what I was looking for, and the blog post-er made quite a big…
Whole Orange Cake
While oranges are available pretty much year round, this is the season when, at least here in the Midwest, they are most economical, and usually a little more flavorful and sweeter too. It is also the season when the trees we had in our back yard in Arizona would be loaded with both sweetest of…
Apple Banana Cake
x Sometimes, the bananas all seem to ripen (or over-ripen) at once. When a couple of spots develop on those apples in the crisper drawer at the same time, it might just be time for a dessert that uses up both these kinds of fruit. This cake is super moist and is the kind that…
Apple Gingerbread
Novembrrrrr. This has been a pretty chilly fall here in the upper Midwest, and a winter storm advisory has just been posted for tonight, with perhaps 3 to 5 inches of snow in the forecast….And I still haven’t finished clearing the last (I hope) layer of leaves off of my deck. What better time to…
Grandma’s California Vegetable Casserole
(The following post is from 2017 but still captures a bit of the story of a very traditional part of our year end holiday meals–all of them!) This year, work conflicts meant that all of our immediate family couldn’t gather on Thanksgiving day for the usual feast, so we would need to celebrate the holiday…
Vegan Chocolate Applesauce Cake
While my diet leans heavily toward the vegetarian side, I am not a vegan and don’t generally stock some of the foods that show up in so many vegan recipes–no vegan chocolate chips, vegan Worcestershire sauce, etc. I am also still pretty wary about the “health benefits” of coconut products, so the only form of…
(Green Tomato) Mincemeat Applesauce Cake
Now that killing frosts have finished off our northern gardens for another year, some of us have access to a lot of green tomatoes. Perhaps my southern friends think immediately of frying ups these end of the season beauties, but, for me, green tomatoes in the fall mean just one thing: green tomato mincemeat. I…