Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
I volunteered to make a cake for a Halloween-themed party. Kids would be there and adults. Something scary would not work. Something too kiddy-like also would not work. I settled on an orange-black themed cake with a spider-web top. There were a lot of steps to get through, though luckily, the steps were pretty easy, A […]
Fall is in full swing, and that means lots of apples and, more importantly, apple-based desserts. There is another fruit that I see sitting alongside the apple, and that is the pear. I associate the two together because they are both in season during the fall months (and are white inside!). I learned recently that […]
In Polish cooking, this cocoa cake ranks as the easiest baked dessert. I had to laugh out loud when I heard that from my Polish relatives. It is definitely not a mug or all-in-one bowl cake, so that means that it’s already a step above “easy,” at least in my book. For this cake, you […]
I was looking for a recipe for light rolls to make sandwiches for lunch that would bring a welcome change to the day-in/day-out country-style bread we always have at home. I turned to a recipe for French yeast dough–pâte levèe–that is used to make pissaladière à la Niçoise, which is an onion tart that is commonly […]
I have been baking this bread each week for about two years. It’s a rustic, everyday bread that has a great crust, a great crumb, and a great taste. This is the family’s go-to bread for sandwiches. Notice that the holes in the bread are not too large so we experience little-to-no seepage problems when […]