Baked Explorations: Quick Skillet Snack Cake

Baked Explorations: Quick Skillet Snack Cake

Let me start by telling you I love and adore this cake.  I want to get that out of the way because I’m going to quibble with the nomenclature and I don’t want my digression to in any way obscure my main point.  Which is: YUM! First of all,...
Off Topic: Pasta, Sausage and Bean Soup

Off Topic: Pasta, Sausage and Bean Soup

One of the reasons I started a blog was that I would sometimes find an absolutely wonderful recipe and there were only so many people I could button-hole about it at work without getting the feeling that they were starting to avoid me in the hallways. This soup...
Baked Explorations: Speculaas

Baked Explorations: Speculaas

I knew I was in trouble with these cookies when I couldn’t stop eating the dough scraps. The story behind them is the author’s obsession with Delta Airline’s Biscoff cookies.  I can’t remember the last time I flew Delta and the notion of an...
Open-Faced Beef Wellington

Open-Faced Beef Wellington

  I made “real” Beef Wellington once.  And it took days. Even without making the puff pastry or the pate from scratch, it was quite a project: a scrumptious and complicated red wine sauce made with oxtails, the Duxelles, the proper cooking of an...