Funfetti Cake
Unlike Molly, and maybe many of you, this was not an “iconic cake of my childhood” mainly because I was a child in the 1960s and cake innovation technology just wasn’t there yet. But even without the strong pull of nostalgia, how can you not be drawn to this cake? It’s got “fun” right in the title for crying out loud!
Off Topic: Chicken Canzanese
This is one of my favorite recent recipes from Cook's Illustrated and one of its most talented (former) employees, Kenji Alt. The familiarity and simplicity of the ingredients belie how incredibly scrumptious this dish is. It's elegant enough to serve at a dinner...
The Next Book: Around My French Table, by Dorie Greenspan
If you look at the top of this page you will see one of Dorie Greenspan's books, Baking: From My Home to Yours, in the book shelf. I bought that book on the recommendation of people I trusted and it quickly became one of my favorites (try the "World Peace Cookies")....
Review: Perfect One-Dish Dinners
Buy. This. Book. Why? Because I think it will give you some nifty tricks and deceptively simple morsels to serve to friends or family. Because the recipes are recognizable favorites, stripped, for the most part, of their processed components, and yet still...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Mixed Greens with Shredded Carrots and Dried Cranberries
This salad was part of the Chicken Potpie menu and complemented it perfectly. What with the apples in the potpie and the cranberries in this salad it had a nice note of Fall running through the whole meal. I absolutely LOVE salad and could eat it for dinner every...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Coq au Vin Blanc with Spring Vegetables
One of the reasons I made this dish is that Pam Anderson's daughter, Maggy, said it was one of her favorites from the book. And I can see why. But can I just ask: when did pearl onions become an endangered species? I went to three stores and could not find them either...
Perfect One-Dish Dinners: Creamless Chocolate Mousse
Pam says that the whipped cream traditionally used in mousse dulls the flavor of the chocolate and I have to believe she's right because this mousse tastes like a truffle. The vanilla ice cream on the side is meant to compensate for the cream not being in the mousse...