When my daughters were little girls, Mother’s Day was all about glitter decorated hand made cards with ‘I love you Mommy’ scrawled in red crayons, presented to me with big hugs and kisses. Those precious cards are such wonderful memories for me. I kept all the cards and they are safely tucked away. After reading a post written by Donna…
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Peanut Butter Torte
For this week’s Tuesdays With Dorie , Elizabeth from Ugg Smell Food chose the recipe, Peanut Butter Torte, from Dorie Greenspan’s book “Baking: From My Home To Yours”. Bottom line, I have an intolerance to peanut butter. Maybe that’s why I don’t like it. Not to take anything away from all you peanut butter lovers out there. There are a…
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Fluted Polenta Ricotta Cake
Last week Caitlin of Engineer Baker chose ‘Fluted Polenta Ricotta Cake’ as the recipe to make from Dorie Greenspan’s “Baking: From my home to yours” for Tuesdays with Dorie. I was really pleased with this choice as ricotta and polenta are two staple ingredients in our home, but I hadn’t combined them in any recipe. I even had the 10…
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If not cake, cupcakes!
This week Amanda of Slow like Honey chose the recipe ‘Bill’s Big Carrot Cake’ from Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Baking: From my Home to Yours’ for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie. Carrot cake is not popular with my family. They don’t like the raisins, the coconut, the texture and so on. I wanted to try this recipe because it sounded and looked…
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Marshmallow rounds
I joined a delightful food blog ‘Tuesdays with Dorie’. ‘Dorie’ is Dorie Greenspan, the author of the wonderful cookbook, ‘Baking, from my home to yours’. There are two requirements for joining this blog – own the cookbook and have fun baking the selected weekly recipe to be posted every Tuesday. For this week, Judy of Judy’s Gross Eats has chosen…Marshmallows…
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Celebrate the Perfect Party Cake
When I read on the Daring Bakers blog that Morven of Food Art and Random Thoughts chose the Perfect Party Cake recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s book ‘Baking: from my Home to Yours’ I was delighted! I enjoy baking cakes and could bake this cake for a few celebrations scheduled in the month of March. Well, one celebration was rescheduled for…
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Time to make the Zeppole (doughnuts for St. Joseph’s Day)
Today is ‘La Festa di San Guiseppe’ – St. Joseph’s Day. My mother was born in Palermo, Sicily and and all her family would join the festivities held in Palermo to show gratitude to St. Joseph for favours granted. Her name is Giuseppina (Josephine) and to celebrate her ‘onomastico’ – Saint Name Day and St. Joseph’s Day, my grandparents used…
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Sweet New York City
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending a few days with my friend Linda visiting our friends in New York City (New York Frame of Mind, Rustico Cooking in New York City). One of the restaurants where we had lunch was Cafe Fiorello, a great Italian restaurant located on Broadway across the street from the Lincoln Center….
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Rustico Cooking in New York City!
One of the highlights of our New York City trip was to attend a hands on Chianti themed cooking class at the Rustico Cooking Studio given by Micol Negrin. We had been on two Italy cooking tours with Micol and her husband Dino – in Umbria & Tuscany and in Chianti! Both times were such great experiences and we met…
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