My Christmas dishes certainly give away the fact this overnight french toast was our treat on Christmas morning! But I sure hope you won’t wait until next Christmas to put this baked french toast on your breakfast table. I know we are going to have it again … and maybe even soon! I found the … Read more
My friend Margaret gave me the cutest little mini-parfait glasses for Christmas. They are so cute and came with cute little spoons! Immediately I started researching dessert recipes to serve in the cute little parfait glasses. New year’s eve was just around the corner and I surely wanted to show off my new glassware. Dinner … Read more
At a holiday luncheon my sous-chef dish-washing mom and I were served a warm fruit compote alongside a delicious egg strata. Mom is absolutely crazy about fruit in about any form. Me, not so much. As a matter of fact I usually loathe anything that even resembles cherry. However, in the interest of politeness I … Read more
It’s Tuesdays With Dorie and this week we baked Finnish Pulla from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking With Julia. From Wikipedia: Pulla (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpulːɑ]) is a mildly-sweet Finnish sweet roll or dessert bread flavored with crushed cardamom seeds and occasionally raisins or sliced almonds. Prior to last week if you asked me what I knew about … Read more
Are you ready for another cookbook giveaway? I am! I ordered this book earlier in the fall just for a time like this! At the end of today’s Peanut Butter Fudge recipe you will find out how you can win this lovely book chocked full of fun recipes! Want to know about the fudge? I … Read more
The other day I was taking my friend Susan Christmas shopping and she asked me if we were making any chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. I told her I hadn’t thought about it but that we could. She said “Oh I would just love some homemade chocolate chip cookies!” Chocolate chip cookies are so classic … Read more