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St. Patrick’s Day or Any Day: Chocolate Whoopie Pies I’m starting to feel guilty posting so many dessert recipes but I have really been churning out some great things that I want to share. These chocolate whoopie pies with Baileys buttercream were something I threw …
Dreaming of Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake I think about cake a lot. Not necessarily eating it. Baking it. I love to think up new styles and flavors and imagine what works well together. The other night I was in bed stress watching a DVRed …
Grandma’s Irish Soda Bread? Nope. I wish I could say this Irish soda bread recipe was handed down to me from my grandmothers, but they didn’t cook. Only one of my two grandmothers was Irish and that one really never cooked anything. I think she …
An Old-Fashioned Treat: Stamped Spice Cookies Ever since I was a little girl, I have been trying to transform my life into the setting of a 19th century novel. It is not surprising then, that I enjoy baking “old-fashioned” treats and desserts suitable for a …
An Accidental Dessert: Pear Tarts The other day I poached some pears. I was trying to recreate a savory tart – pears with cheese – that I saw on the internet. The tart was not a big success. It was fine but it had a …
A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able …
Old Fashioned Baking: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I am often torn between wanting to bake “fancy” things and wanting to bake comfort foods from my childhood. Fancy things include macarons, French pastries, croissants. Comfort foods include brownies, layer cakes, and cookies – the old-fashioned kind like …
French Food and Lentil Soup Being French, my husband knows a lot about good food. Even today, my mother-in-law is an amazing cook who sometimes spends days preparing one dish. No pressure there. This also means, however, that he sometimes requests things that sound less …
Cozy Up to Winter with Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies I always think it’s kind of weird the way people put up their holiday decorations the day after Halloween and then take them down the day after Christmas. This is the hard part of the year, …
A New and More Delicious Tradition: Apple Mini Pies It is mid November so my mind has naturally turned to Thanksgiving. Growing up, Thanksgiving was all about “tradition,” basically, eating the same foods every year. Because I was a kid in the early 70s, that …
