I thought caramel with bananas and chocolate glaze would be heavenly. A few almonds sprinkled over it all. Sooooooo….I experimented with Sherry Yard’s Whipped Caramel Cream. I figured since the Daring Bakers have done caramel until the cows come home and I even longer, that this, too, would be a cake walk. What a total [...]
August 2008
It’s still not quite 10am here, so grab a cup of coffee and a muffin. If you’re lucky, you have one that’s as delicious as mine. But I’ll get to that later… I finally decided to change my photo in the sidebar. I started to think that maybe people didn’t get it — that it [...]
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Zest the lemon completely. Then juice it and quarter it. In a small bowl, mix lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil and herbs. Set aside. Pat the chicken dry after rinsing it — inside as well. Liberally sprinkle inside and out with salt and cracked pepper. Sprinkle some [...]
Years ago, one of my students gave me a gift certificate to a bookstore as a parting gift for the school year. And with it, I purchased a tiny book called Biscuits and Scones: 62 Recipes from Breakfast Biscuits to Homey Desserts by Elizabeth Alston. Until Sunday, I’d never made another biscuit or shortcake recipe [...]
Nothing like a little blogging break, huh? It wasn’t planned, exactly, but the combination of finally moving my Mac back up to the office from where it sat for a few weeks on the kitchen counter, and a very busy weekend left me completely not interested in climbing the stairs to even check email for [...]
