Cherry (and raspberry) Clafouti

I saw this recipe on Simply Recipes and it looked good: tasty and simple. It also looked very much like a recipe that Christina was doing in her series of German recipes on her blog An American Expat in Deutscheland, in this post. Her version is a Blankenhainer Cherry Cake and the major differences seem [...]

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Pasta Vegetable Salad

I have started so many posts and not finished them: some serious, some (perhaps) funny. I just don’t have the energy right now. Perhaps I will work on them this coming week: don’t be surprised to see posts popping up that appear to be old. So here’s what I made for lunch on Monday. I [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: Parisian Apple Tartlet

What I made is actually Berlin Rhubarb Tartlet, as I cook along with Tuesdays with Dorie. Jessica of My Baking Heart chose the recipe this week, and it is posted on her blog. I was very grateful to see a recipe without chocolate and a recipe that I could make from ingredients in the house [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: Lemon

Bridget from The Way the Cookie Crumbles chose Lemon Cup Custard for this week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe. It received an awful cot of negative comments on the P&QSo many, in fact, that I was motivated to make it even though I was overwhelmed with Purim and packing to go to the US for two [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: Devil’s Food White Out Cake

I have been starting to wonder whether I am cut out for Tuesdays with Dorie. I have had a few failures and a few items I really didn’t want to make and I am starting to think that there will never be a recipe that doesn’t have chocolate in it (which is bad, as I [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: World Peace Cookies

Another week joining my fellow Tuesdays with Dorie bloggers as we bake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: from my home to yours. Today’s recipe, World Peace Cookies, was chosen by Jessica of Cookbookhabit. That’s a habit I share (along with garden books, sf, novels, travel books and expat reads- in fact, I am a bit of [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: Fresh Ginger and Chocolate Gingerbread

I baked this cake for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie. Heather of Sherry Trifle chose this recipe and will post it. Thanks Heather, this was surprisingly good considering that I don’t really like chocolate. I do, however, love ginger and happened to have a large root just hanging out in my fridge. I used top [...]

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The difference between baking powder and soda, and how to make the former from the latter

What you need to know and an even more thorough (and a bit technical) explanation here: Both baking soda and baking powder are leaveners, which means they make cakes and muffins rise. So what’s the difference? Baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate. Not only will baking soda fluff up your muffins, it can also put [...]

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London Calling…

I’m off for a solo three day weekend in London Friday very early. I’m booked in Bloomsbury, quite close to the British Museum, so no matter what happens I know where I can spend unlimited hours (and it should be soggy the whole time I am there). I’m thinking Murder One (sadly closing its doors [...]

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Tuesday’s with Dorie: Savory Corn and Pepper Muffins

Neither of us liked this muffin.It looked good but when I pulled it out of the oven it was crumbling. A few hours later it had moistened up and held together but I still found it very dry and I actively disliked the taste. Since I am a savory lover and a cornbread lover, I’m [...]

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