Julia Child’s French Bread- My First Daring Bakers Challenge!

After the Lemon Meringue Pies were posted in January, I became intrigued with the Daring Bakers. I had seen bloggers post about it before, but had never really paid attention to what it really was. Since I now have a food blog myself, I decided to look into it. It seemed like [...]

Deluxe Chocolate Marshmallow Bars

I have had my eye on these ever since I saw them in Jaime’s blog, Good Eats ‘n Sweet Treats a couple months ago. I love the chocolate and peanut butter combination, and when you add in marshmallows and a cake-like layer, how could you go wrong? These were so delicious and [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie Rewind: Brown Sugar-Pecan Shortbread Cookies- the one that started it all!

I am still in the process of catching up on the recipes I missed before I joined the group. I make desserts for our young adults group at church and I was already planning on bringing a chocolate snack, so I wanted to bring a non-chocolate dessert for those poor souls who don’t like [...]

Penne with Pancetta (or Bacon), Spinach, and Buttery Crumb Topping

Another great recipe from Cooking Light! Their recipes never seem to let me down. I have had my eye on this recipe for quite some time and finally decided to make it the other night. I was sure glad I did! This was a great pasta dish and wasn’t too difficult [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Pecan Sour Cream Biscuits

For this week’s installment of Tuesdays with Dorie, Ashley of eat me, delicious chose the Pecan Sour Cream Biscuits. It was a nice change of pace from the heavy desserts we have been making the past few weeks. It’s been so long since I’ve made biscuits and it was nice to make them [...]

Southern Cornbread

David and I cooked dinner for our church group and I decided to make cornbread to go with our main dish, Baked Louisiana Dirty Rice and Beans. I don’t have a good recipe for cornbread that I am satisfied with, but this was very good. It had a great flavor and had a [...]

Blondies

Tomorrow I’m taking my Almost-Fudge Gateau (see post below) to our young adults group at church. Even though it’s delicious, I thought I should bring something that’s not quite so rich for those who can’t take as much chocolate as me =) There has been a recipe for blondies that has been going [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie Week 8: Almost-Fudge Gateau

This week Nikki of Crazy Delicious chose Dorie’s Almost-Fudge Gateau. Gateau is a French-style cake. I would describe this as a mix between cake and a brownie. It has a very dense texture, and the bittersweet chocolate gives it a very rich flavor. I really liked the way the glaze added [...]

Shrimp Etoufee

I love shrimp and am always willing to try new shrimp recipes. I was looking through my Joy of Cooking cookbook and started marking meals to try. Shrimp Etoufee was one of those dishes, and I decided to make it tonight because I had been craving a good shrimp dinner. I knew [...]

Danish Pastry- Pinwheels

David loves pastries. He’s not much of a chocolate eater, but he can pack away a pastry pretty much anytime. Since one of my favorite cookbooks, Williams Sonoma: Essentials of Baking has a section devoted to pastry, I decided to challenge myself to make it at home. I’ve already made Palmiers, [...]