The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2011

Shrimp Salad with Yogurt and Celery in Puff Pastry Shells

Tying together several recent posts, I decided to go all healthy and fill the puff pastry shells I had labored over with a yogurt-based shrimp salad instead of ragout fin. Ragout fin is made with chicken and mushrooms and seasoned w/ Worchester sauce, and somehow the dreary weather outside called for something reminding me [...]

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Jewish Onion Rolls

(“Inside the Jewish Bakery” Baking Challenge)

After last week’s baking disaster, these were a refreshing bake. Last week, the project was “closed pockets”, based on the book’s Danish dough and whatever filling we wanted. The dough turned out great, but the filling was a total disaster. The book has an error in the [...]

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{Guest Post}: German “Sunken Apple” Torte with Streusel

Today I am guest posting for my friend Erin at The Big Fat Baker. Erin is a baker par excellence, but she also blogs about smoothies and more. I have long been a fan and also follow her on twitter @BigFatBaker. Head on over and theck out the post here.

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{Guest Post} Home-Made Yogurt And Taziki

I am guest posting at Healthy Foodie Travels this morning! My friend Kiri, an expat German like myself (and conincidentally living in Ohio as well – funny how that goes!) invited me to write a post for her blog, and what could be healthier than yogurt and tzatziki?

Hop on over!

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Home-Made Puff Pastry Shells

I have been on a laminated dough binge lately, and when I realized how much easier it was in a kitchen that was NOT 90 degrees, like the professional one I used to make this at (when we still had our bakery), I got downright adventurous. What else could we make with this? Thumbing [...]

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