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With only 8 ingredients and one bowl, this rich and moist cake is really easy to prepare.
I’ve been loving my bundt cake pan a lot recently and I’m not sure why. Could be a retro-nostalgia thing, unexplored childhood issues maybe, or I just found one at the thrift store (along with a never-used-still-in-the-60s package mini [...]
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These are delicious large chocolate chip cookies, which I made especially for my daughter, as she accuses me of making too many unusual foods (what is so unusual about coconut flan?).
I found the recipe on Tracey’s Culinary Adventures who got it from Alton Brown, with a few minor tweaks (one of these days I’ll get [...]
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I’ve always hesitated to make flan because I don’t have special timbale cups and I still can’t believe an ordinary person can make caramel sauce. But, I recently came across this recipe from Chicago Mexican Food Examiner and the coconut, combined with one-pan cooking, convinced me to give it a try.
I was not deterred by [...]
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These cookies are extraordinary because they are both practical and mysterious.
Let’s start with the practical. Not so unusually, this common cookie meets two of my key food recipe requirements: they are easy to make and they taste really, really good. Plus I had all of the ingredients on hand and both of my kids liked [...]
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Chapathis are delicious unleavened bread that are a traditional Indian accompaniment to all meals. When I was a child, I remember my friends’ father would make these (Mr. Saikia was from India) and I was in awe at how quickly and easily he made these treats; the fact that they bubbled up was even more [...]
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These hearty carrot cupcakes are made with pineapple, coconut and walnuts in addition to lots of freshly grated carrots. Even with the cream cheese frosting, they are more like muffins and are substantial enough to be a breakfast-on-the-go.
The recipe is adapted from Simply Recipes, where it is presented as a beautiful cake. I’ve made both [...]
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This recipe is a variation on quick Irish Soda Bread, with the addition of cheese and garlic. One member of the family who shall remain nameless thought it was “too spicy” but those of us with hardier palettes thought the flavors were perfect, and the aroma was amazing. Cheese and garlic can be omitted, or [...]
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Beside the fact that blueberries are my absolute favorite fruit, and beside the fact that these are so quick and easy to make, I especially like these muffins because they make a quick and healthy breakfast — great taste and no guilt. They have very little sugar and not much butter, but lots of oatmeal [...]
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I discovered this recipe in the February 2009 Bon Apetit; it is from the Taku Glacier Lodge in Juneau, Alaska (I couldn’t find an online version of this reader restaurant recipe request).
Parmesan cheese, herbs and easy — that’s my kind of biscuit. I modified the ingredients (I do not have dried milk powder laying around, [...]
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Although two of my grandparents are from Ireland, and I have relatives there who run a bakery in Dublin, sadly I have no family soda bread recipes to cherish, bake or share, and so it was off to the Internet to find one. I found gazillions of recipes, and all include the primary ingredients of [...]
