Holiday Doughnuts
Forget cookies. Santa wants doughnuts. Here are a couple of fun ideas you can make with your kids to make your late night present delivering a bit sweeter. How cute are Doughnut Snowmen? I made little...
View ArticleWhole Wheat Doughnuts with Honey Glaze
I’ve been thinking about whole grain doughnuts lately. I’m not crazy enough to think that adding some whole grains turns a doughnut into a health food. A doughnut, even one with healthier grain, is...
View ArticleToday I… Made Porridge
So, continuing on this whole breakfast theme thing I seem to have going on, how about some rice porridge? This version simply cooks the rice (arborio, but any short grain will do) in some water and...
View ArticleChocolate Hazelnut Cookies
I really can’t explain this. I don’t even like hazelnuts. But I do like these cookies. A lot. Think Nutella, if it were a cookie. Not just spread between two sugar cookies. But what if the Nutella was...
View ArticleStorage Apples
Visit any Seattle farmer’s market this time of year and you’ll see apples by the crateful. I mean huge crateful. Anything that comes in that big of a crate tends to make me skeptical, particularly...
View ArticleBeignets with Fudgy Chicory Coffee Sauce
I have very fuzzy memories of Mardi Gras. That’s probably a pretty safe bet for most folks indulging in the celebration, but in my case it was less about the partying (which I did) and more about...
View ArticleChocolate Guinness Cake with Whiskey Caramel
A few weeks ago, I shot a St. Patrick’s Day feature for Kitchen Daily. Have you seen this site? I’m pleased as punch to be shooting seasonal recipes for them now and then, particularly if the recipes...
View ArticleBaked Strawberry Doughnut Holes
Developing recipes is full of almosts. You get an idea in your head, and you give it a try, and it almost works. Maybe not quite what you were imagining, but close. Or, sometimes not even all that...
View ArticleFresh Cherry Cake Doughnuts
Most so called National Insert Random Noun Here Days are kind of a sham. Sure, it’s great to have any reason to celebrate, but it seems that there are a few to many National Days that are created by...
View ArticleHappy Independence Day
It’s July folks… how did that happen? I knew that June was going to be a whirlwind of a month. I was right. June definitely kept me on my toes, and I have a lot to share with you on that, but for now,...
View ArticleA Pie for Mikey
I wasn’t really planning a post for today, but my heart and head have silently been with Jennie all week. When I heard the news of her husband’s unexpected death, I went numb. My heart, like hers,...
View ArticleAn Abundance of Apples
If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend being friends with a farmer. Especially one that grows perfect heads of butterleaf lettuce like this: and brings you specialty crops like heirloom...
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