July Daring Bakers: Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream

I was pretty excited when I found out that Chris of Mele Cotte chose a cake for this month’s challenge. I love cake and I was pretty excited about making one that is a step above a simple frosted layer cake. The Filbert Gateau is from Great Cakes by Carole Walter, which I [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Summer Fruit Galette

Michelle of Michelle in Colorado Springs chose the Summer Fruit Galette for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe. I’ve never made a galette before, but it’s pretty close to a pie. I was excited to have a chance to use some of the fresh peaches that I picked up over the weekend. I am pretty [...]

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

There are so many chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. It seems as if every cookbook has a recipe. I’ve tried so many, but none have been quite what I’m looking for. A lot of them turn into bricks the next day, but the most common fault is that they’re too crispy [...]

Taste and Create: Italian Pizza Macaroni

I decided to participate in Taste and Create for the first time this month. I had seen other bloggers participate, and it looks like a really fun way to get to know other people in the food community and try a new recipe. My partner for this round was For the Love of [...]

Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnuts

David told me that he was craving doughnuts. They had been on my list of things to make for a while, so I decided to go for it. I looked through my cookbooks to help me figure out which kind to make. I had recently bought Sherry Yard’s cookbook: The Secrets of [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie Rewind: French Chocolate Brownies

For this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie we were supposed to make chocolate pudding. I planned to make it before going out of town. I started the pudding and everything was going well until I had to pour the hot milk into the food processor. It was then when I realized that my [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Double-Crusted Blueberry Pie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was chosen by Amy of South in Your Mouth and she chose the Double Crusted Blueberry Pie. This recipe caught my eye when I first flipped through the cookbook. The blueberries in the picture looked wonderful and I love a good pie crust, so I knew a [...]

Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles are such a fun cookie. It’s a fun word to say first of all, and I think there’s much to be said for their simplicity. They’re kind of like a sugar cookie, but have that extra twist when you roll them in cinnamon sugar. I haven’t had a whole lot of [...]

Penne alla Vodka

I had been craving a good pasta dish. We hadn’t had pasta in a while, which is very unusual for us. I love pasta and could probably eat it even more than I already do I had been wanting to try this dish for a long time, and I decided [...]