Adventures in cooking and baking.
Flourless Chocolate and Red Wine Cake, or Gâteau au Chocolate au Vine Rouge sans Farine, is intensely rich in flavor and yet light in texture... like a combination of a chocolate truffle and chocolate mousse.
Take advantage of the leftover red wine in your refrigerator (yes, every once in a while we have some leftover) and make this amazing chocolate-y dessert.
These sourdough cinnamon buns, with banana in the dough, are a fun and delicious way to use up an over ripe banana and end up with a pan full of delicious breakfast treats.
Make and shape the dough for these cinnamon buns, refrigerate them, and bake them the next morning for fresh cinnamon buns for breakfast on a weekend morning.
Blum's Coffee Crunch Cake.. a lemon and vanilla chiffon cake with an espresso infused whipped cream frosting and coated with an airy and crunchy coffee honeycomb-like candy.
Blum's was a small chain of bakery/soda fountain shops in California (based in San Francisco) that closed in the 1970s. Its most beloved menu item was this coffee crunch cake.
This fennel seed and golden raisin bread, with its soft crumb and crunchy crust, is perfect sliced and slathered with butter, as toast, and for sandwiches.
This bread is flavored with some crushed fennel seeds and lightly sprinkled with golden raisins, and the loaf gets it light golden color from durum flour.
Take comfort food, marry it to bar food, and you get this Buffalo Chicken Baked Mac and Cheese.
This sourdough bread is nice and tangy, and emerges from the oven with a crunchy crackly crust that totally sings. You will want to stand there and listen to your bread crackle as it sits on the cooling rack.
Lately, I've been hearing a lot about cold start sourdough, where you start your bake with cold dough, a cold pan or Dutch oven, and a cold oven.
Baked eggs in crispy hash brown potato nests - an easy and creative way to make eggs and hash browns for a crowd.
These egg and hash brown cups are prepared in a muffin tin, making it easy to make enough for a crowd.
