Do you ever develop emotional attachments to your cookbooks? I certainly do – I tend to get sentimental about books anyways, but especially my cookbooks – after all, they have been with me through some failures and successes, repeated trials, discovering new techniques and all of the crazy adventures [...]
Hi. I’m Jenn and I am a chocoholic. I eat chocolate every day. I love dark chocolate that isn’t very sweet. In fact, the higher the percentage of cocoa solids in chocolate, the better as far as I am concerned. And next to eating delicious chocolate, I [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of Valentine’s -all those silly chalky conversation hearts that taste like Tums just don’t do it for me. Most years it just feels like another “Hallmark holiday” – I mean, if you truly love someone, do you really need a special day during [...]
The title is fitting for the day after Halloween, no? My only guess as to why these are called “fly cemeteries” is that all of the currants in the filling look like a bunch of dead flies. In reality, it’s a shortbread-like sandwich filled with a thick currant filling. Quite tasty, actually. I [...]
While it is still warm out during these last few days of summer (hello Autumn! You officially started today!), we had a family BBQ with some slow cooked hickory smoked ribs, and a delicious mango sauce. This recipe was adapted from a recipe found in one of my favorite [...]
Remember the peach “cobbler” I made that I said tasted like a cookie on top? Well, it gave me the idea to experiment a bit. Ok, not experiment in the true sense. I am a scientist by trade, and typically experiments involve well thought out, meticulously recorded tests [...]
OMG yes, eclairs, and yes, gluten free! I about died when I came across this recipe posted on Gluten Free Dogs and People.
I have never made eclairs before. Or really any French pastry for that matter, despite my very prevalent French heritage. But late is better than never! You must know that eclairs are [...]
I have LOTS of cookbooks. But only a handful regularly live in my kitchen:
Ok the Rachel Ray one i gave to my sister for Christmas this year (it was awesome for when I was just starting out cooking), but the others are pretty standard – the All Clad recipe file (which I received [...]
Tonight I made this beautiful tart from one of my favorite cookbooks:
This book is the Stonewall Kitchen Harvest book, which focuses on the traditions of Maine and various dishes correlated with the seasons:
This recipe was a 5-onion tart, made with onion, shallot, scallion, leek and garlic. I added in some mushrooms as well, cause they [...]