Four for Dinner

I’ve been trying my hand at lots of gluten free baked goods using regular recipes with a gluten free flour mix. Many have been very successful. Today, I made a chou paste – using a very traditional ratio (I actually halved the usual recipe – so I used 1/2 stick butter, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 [...]

I have been meaning to post the recipe that I have been using to make scones for a while. Today, I made these easy pastries for a school function, after drop-off – i.e., breakfast time. A friend of mine described them as “crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside”. She really liked them. [...]

Made them this morning. Also made them last week. Recipe coming soon.

As a displaced New Yorker, I am typically disappointed in the bagel offerings of the SF Bay Area. But, I have never been a bagel lover anyway. They are a little too heavy for me (though I will admit to enjoying the occasional bagel hot out of the oven at the store). When I do [...]

In California, the climate is right for growing citrus. When S and I bought our house, we counted up the number of citrus trees and it was an astounding eleven. These aren’t full size commercial production trees, but dwarf trees that reach about 10 feet max. Nonetheless, we have more oranges than we can use [...]

Ambrosia. Strawberry rhubarb compote is food for the gods. I love rhubarb. I love strawberry rhubarb pie. Rhubarb is such an incongruous plant. It is sometimes called, “pie plant”. The leaves are poisonous. The stems are edible, but very sour and must be cooked with some sugar in order to be palatable. But, not too [...]

I haven’t drizzled the delicious maple icing onto this coffee cake yet, but it still looks great donning just its streusel topping. Ina Garten’s Sour Cream Coffee Cake is an easy, impressive, rich and delicious cake to serve any time.  I made it on Friday and put it in the freezer for removal for our [...]

After re-living my youth in my last post, I realized that the granola I had in the oven while blogging was first made popular around the same time-frame. I used to call it Super 70′s Granola, but I think I’ll rename it “Bay City Granola” after the Bay City Rollers and San Francisco, where I [...]

I think big breakfasts are, as a friend of mine would say, the cat’s meow. But, eating a big breakfast is generally not on the time schedule or on the trying-to-slim-down-by-summer plan. Sometimes on weekends, or when we have friends staying with us, I’ll cook a big lazy breakfast. That is usually around holidays when [...]

This has truly been a week of cooking. I’m usually not this busy, but, boy this has been a week. The teacher snack – o.k., I could have bought everything, but that is just not my style. No one cares but me. If there are cookies, do they need to be home made to be [...]