Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
My kids had a rough week – tests at school and grueling after-school activities – so I wanted to give them a nice treat. I wanted to bake them oatmeal raisin cookies, thinking that it’s the healthier alternative to chocolate chip cookies (ha, ha). Lo and behold, I’m out of raisins. Plain oatmeal cookies would […]
My daughter had an interesting history project learning about the Polish hussars. They were an elite regimen in the Polish cavalry in the Crown Kingdom of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was actually exiled Hungarians who introduced hussar horsemen to the Polish military. At first, the regiments were small and only made up […]
Spring is just around the corner. Cut tulips are popping up in the flower sections of grocery stores. Once last shot to make pumpkin bread before I get strange looks. I suppose the end of fall should mark the end of pumpkin bread, but that rule doesn’t work in my house, especially if I’m baking […]
I’m calling these cookies “Polish” not because they are a traditionally Polish, but instead because I made them while visiting Poland over Christmas. While I could have sworn that I repeated exactly what I would have done had I made them in my own kitchen in America–aside from the colored sugar crystals which were nonexistent […]
I wanted to recreate this extraordinary gazillion-layer, apricot-laced, chocolate-glazed torte for my son’s birthday. I made it in my single years, when I had a lot more time on my hands. I remember it being divine. The flavors and textures in this cake take you to a heavenly place. It’s a 30 layer “layer […]