Happy Birthday Baby Girl!
Today my baby girl turns five, and we made this cake for her party with her family tonight: Its surely a candidate for Cake Wrecks (although that’s professional cakes) but we had a lot of fun decorating it. Princesses courtesy of Vivi (FYI the…
Cherry Tart with Almond and Dark Chocolate
After gorging on cherries the other day I had an inspiration – a free-form cherry tart. I started pondering how to execute it, and decided first that I would add a hint of almond. Later I decided to shave some dark chocolate onto the…
Baking Day!
Scones and Brownies . . .
Pre Cinco Dinner Party
It was our night to host our parents’ group, and since its so close to Cinco de Mayo I thought it would be fun to have a Mexican themed dinner. We had tacos, rice, beans, chips and salsa and guacamole, and cupcakes for dessert….
Free Form Apple Tart
In honor of Tita’s arrival tomorrow, I baked a free-form apple tart to serve after dinner. I didn’t use a recipe, and didn’t write down amounts of things so I won’t write a recipe for the blog (plus I haven’t tasted it yet so…
Happy Pi Day!
In honor of Pi Day (3.14) I made a savory Onion Tart. I used a recipe from the cookbook 1080 Recipes, with a few modifications – mostly that I ended up with twice as much filling as space in my pie shell so I…
Sandwich Bread
I felt like making bread today. I knew there was a simple recipe for white sandwich bread in The Best Recipe cookbook (by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated magazine) so I pulled out the book, checked the ingredients, and got underway. American Sandwich Bread…
Lights Out Apple Pie
I asked Alvaro what kind of cake he’d like for his birthday, and his answer was “Pie!”. So Apple Pie it is on this snowy Wednesday. After a busy day of sledding and a trip to the vet, I got all my ingredients out…
Apple Cake
I think I was nesting today what with the snowy weather and the impending ‘snowmaggedon’ (which seems will not materialize). I hung curtains in the open doorways of our bar and family room to cut down on the drafts, and then baked homemade lasagna…
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