Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
After a bit of a haitus, I’ve returned to one of my favorite types of cakes, the Bundt cake. This particular Bundt cake is one that my family requests time and time again. If you have 3 to 4 bananas that are super ripe, this is a great recipe to put those overripe bananas to […]
Yes, it’s another plum recipe. So far, I’ve posted two recipes for plum cake (German Plum Cake and Polish Plum Cake), one recipe for yeasted Polish plum pastry, and one recipe for a type of shortcrust Polish pastry (“półkruche ciasto”). This time, the recipe is for a different type of shortcrust Polish pastry (“kruche ciasto“). The […]
Whenever I’ve taken a trip to Poland to see relatives, each household I’d visit–even if I only would be dropping by for a couple of hours–would always offer and serve tea or coffee with a homemade dessert. Yes, that’s right, a homemade dessert. ALWAYS. HOMEMADE. It’s almost like it would be committing the highest sin […]
If you lack the time and energy to make up a sweet pastry dough the normal way–by cutting butter into flour, etc, etc–then try out this recipe to make a quick Polish tart. The most time consuming part is preparing the fruit (and washing the dishes afterwards!). The mixer does all the work to make […]
If you buy a bunch of peaches, and they all happen to ripen at the same time, what can you do? No need to panic. The tried and true solution to such a dilemma (aside from making jam) is to bake something special with the extra peaches. You can bake a fruit pie, tart, crostada, […]