For the second July bake from Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan, I made the Blueberry Biscuits.  These are delightful treats that feature a ...

 This week's treat from Baking with Dorie is essentially a mini-cake:  Pistachio-Matcha Financiers.  I've been wanting to make these for quite awhile, and ...

  We are featuring two vegetable tarts this month for the Tuesdays with Dorie group. I played around with my vegetable ribbon tart, based on the produce I ...

  Cathy from Bread Experience, our August kitchen of the month, challenged us to make sourdough croissant bread.  I was very excited since this bread has ...

Pavlova Bombs are mini pavlovas balls filled with lemon curd, raspberry coulis and whipped cream. They look so innocent when placed before you – then they ...

  This week's post for Tuesdays with Dorie features some of summer's bounty:  a Ricotta Tomato Tart.I added some sliced zucchini to the heirloom tomatoes ...

  Dorie has the best shortbread recipes! I've made multiple batches from several of her cookbooks and they are definitely blue-ribbon worthy.This ...

Julian Baggini. How the World Eats:  A Global Food Philosophy.  Pegasus Books.  New York.  2025.  ISBN: 978-1-63936-819-8. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma ...

 This is a tale of two cakes. Neither one looks like the photograph in Baking with Dorie. When I made the first cake, I wasn't happy with the texture of ...

 Once again, I was asked to make a dessert for my monthly quilt group. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to bake the Double-Pear Picnic Pie, with a ...