Holiday Baking: Sugar Cookies
These cookies are excellent for rolling, with a few tried-and-true tricks up your sleeve. 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon milk Confectioner's sugar,...
Holiday Baking: Rugelach
This recipe is the traditional one. You may find others -- I tried currants one year and didn't like that. Chocolate chips are not traditional but we've also tried that and love it. Cookie Dough: 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 8-oz package cream...
Holiday Baking: Spitzbuebe
Original recipe here. For years I was making the recipe for Drei Augen from Gourmet, which I posted at Baking Delights (now Blisstree) when I was still blogging for b5media (reposting below). This is also similar to Linzer cookies, although Linzers traditionally...
Holiday Baking: Stephanie Schrader’s Walnut Cups
Original recipe here. My adaptation: Makes about 60 cookies Crust: 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened 6 ounces cream cheese, softened 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt Filling: 4 large egg 4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled 3 cups firmly packed...
Chopped Horiatiki Salata / Greek Salad
I make no claims at all about the authenticity of this recipe. I've read in places that romaine lettuce does not play a part at all in traditional horiatiki. All I know is that our Greek foodie friend who married a Greek foodie gal are two of the coolest people...
Gingery Asian Beef and Noodle Soup
Here's another Filipino basic that is great for making use of leftovers, or when in need of a quick no-nonsense meal. I start out here with leftover pieces and gravy from a soy-braised round steak. Store-bought rotisserie chicken, stuffed wontons, fried pork chops,...
Vegetables in Coconut Milk and Shrimp Paste
This is a very basic Filipino recipe. I fell in love with coconut milk stews sometime in high school, and I'm still in love. I remember calling my mom a couple of weeks after I got married and asked her how to prepare this, since I had found some lovely hyacinth beans...
Summer’s End Vegetable Soup
This is a lovely soup to have on hand those beginning autumn days when the air starts getting chilly, but you still have an abundance of veggies from the summer harvest. Of course, you can always change up the vegetables all through the year and use whatever's in...
Stovetop Ratatouille, with Roasted Eggplant
Ratatouille is just one of those dishes that make me happy-happy-happy. Besides having all my favorite veggies, it also has such a fun name to say: rat-a-too-ee. Doesn’t that word just make you smile? I try to make this often because I know my days of enjoying it are...
Fettuccine Alfredo, Kinda
I'm posting this because it's such a simple and easy recipe, and though it's not the healthiest, I want my kids to have this in their back pocket for those times when they need a quick, filling meal. It's not really even a recipe because the formula is quite simple....
Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Banana Bread
An allergy-free banana bread, originally written in 2013. This one is gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free.
Bouchons au Thon
Molly Wizenberg wrote about this dish in 2005, when I was just beginning my blogging journey. I made it with canned salmon because that's what I had, and it struck me how similar it is to the Filipino torta, which I learned as a child, with a couple of exceptions: no...
Marbled Mason Jars
Sometimes I get crafty. Marbled mason jars for all the alternative flours and starches in the house. Amateurish splotches here and there. First try, I just dumped some red and some white into a jar and swirled it through. There was some marbling that happened but not...
Jazzed Up Banana Bread
Adapted from Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life. Getting rid of ingredients that have been in the pantry forever -- this time cacao nibs and crystallized ginger. I sometimes think banana bread without walnuts is almost sacrilegious, so I don't make banana bread as...
Defragmentation / Reintegration #8
The way to adjust to the new normal, is to get back to the old normal.