Tag: baking

• Book Review: Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan

  Yummy – Sweet and Savory Yesterday I made the cookie dough for the “Rye – Chocolate Shortbread” from Dorie Greenspan’s forthcoming cookbook. Today I sliced and baked. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and this one says it all! They were everything shortbread should be: crumbly, sandy, buttery, melt in your mouth…

  michardillo

  March 14, 2021

  books, Essay, food

  baking, chocolate, cookies, Dorie Greenspan, NetGalley, rye

• Book Review: Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan

  You had me at rye-chocolate shortbread! I love to read and I love to cook, so it is only natural that I read cookbooks like some people read novels: devouring them and savoring every last headnote, ingredient list, recipe, footnote, and photograph. Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan is no exception. I can’t wait to…

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  March 12, 2021

  books, Essay, food

  baking, breads, cookbook, cookies, dough, pastries

• The “Pan”-Demic Experiments

  “Sometimes you feel like a nut / Sometimes you don’t / Almond Joy’s got nuts / Mounds don’t” was the jingle used during the 1970s to advertise two of my favorite candy bars.  And, likewise, sometimes, I feel like doing culinary research for several hours, shopping at multiple grocery stores and markets, gathering stand mixer,…

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  June 14, 2020

  Essay, food

  Almond Joy, baking, brownies, cake mix, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee cake, Community Coffee, cooking, COVID 19, from scratch, Mounds, pandemic, prepared mix, Southern Bites

• Irish Soda Bread in a Hurry

  My spring break is drawing to a close. For once I made sure I could really relax and not have a ton of school work hanging over my head the whole time. It made a huge difference. I had a great visit with my older daughter, did a bit of spring cleaning, baked an elaborate…

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  April 22, 2017

  Essay

  Agatha Christie, baking, C. A. Larmer, Irish butter, Irish soda bread, Julia Child, orange marmalade, reading, tea, writing