Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
When a birthday rolls around and it’s time to bake a cake, I am usually on pins and needles. Will it turn out? After all, a birthday cake isn’t an everyday dessert. I’m usually baking the birthday cake the night before, or even the day of, so if it–dare I say–flops, then I am in […]
Bread, the staff of life. When growing up, there always had to be bread in the house. Bread accessible to most families at that time was more like cotton balls formed into loaves. Simply put, good bread was hard to find. Coming from Poland where bad bread was hard to find, the absence of good […]
I had an amazing treat at an office potluck many, many years ago, which was described to me as toffee bark. The bottom layer was made up of crackers (graham crackers or even saltines), on top of which was a butter/brown sugar layer, and then on top of that layer was a lovely chocolate layer. […]
On my continual quest for healthy, potluck-worthy chicken dishes, I stumbled upon this slow cooker/crock pot dish. It’s accented with fall/winter-worthy cranberries and apples. As with all of the slow cooker main courses I’ve come across, it is something like a stew. Meaning—the chicken pieces are sort of flaky and there is quite a bit […]
If you are regularly a cookie/cake home baker but have an adventurous spirit, try making custard-filled cream puffs! They are an elegant dessert to take to a party potluck and really not so bad in terms of difficulty. They just need a chunk of your time and attention. See my post on making the basic […]