{Baking/Preserving} SLOW ROASTED TOMATOES ... Preserve the Bounty Week # 2

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”Lewis Grizzard Tomatoes form an integral part of our everyday food, often like the butter on our daily bread.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my (read full article)

Borges, Preserve the Bounty, sun-dried tomatoes, tomato

{Product Review & Recipe} Cottage Cheese & Bell Pepper Wraps, Pickled Peppers and Gulab Jamuns - Strange Bedfellows? Maybe ...

"Life is the sum of all your choices"Albert Camus Given the choice, I would cook and bake all day with olive oil as my happy cooking medium ... SIGH ... if only I didn't find the price a little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website (read full article)

Borges, Cottage-cheese, Dessert, indian, jalapeños, Olive Oil, pickled peppers, Preserve the Bounty, Product Review, Vegetarian

{Baking} NO FEET, PRAY, LOVE ...Oooops I mean EAT, PRAY, LOVE Chocolate Macarons

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do!"John WoodenWhat's not to love about the name of this much awaited film that is being released today on Friday the 13th - Eat, Pray,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website (read full article)

Chocolate, Eat Pray Love, Mac Attack, Mac Tweets, macaron

{Baking} CHOCOLATE ALMOND BISCOTTI ... the fuss about Valrhona

"There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!"Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"Sometimes life springs wonderful surprises, and I sit back reminiscing about how... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs (read full article)

almonds, biscotti, Borges, cookies, David Lebovitz, healthy, Olive Oil

{No Bake} OTTOLENGHI'S PRESERVED LIMES ... Preserve the Bounty

This August, I signed up for the Preserve the Bounty Challenge hosted at Nourished Kitchen which is an intensive 5-week challenge designed to teach you how to preserve the bounty of summer without... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)

Borges, Ottolenghi, Preserve the Bounty, preserved limes

{No Bake/ Cooler} PLUM LEMONADE!

If life gives you lemons, and you are lucky enough to have plums too,...make plum lemonade!I bookmarked this the minute I saw it. The summer through, I keep a pitcher of fresh lime juice waiting for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)

cooler, Plum, summer, vanilla bean

{No Bake/Vegetarian Dessert} TROPICAL FRUIT VERRINES... Stoned this summer!

"Give me book, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by someone I do not know"John Keats  We've been stoned nice and proper this summer! No, no, it's not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)

Dessert, eggless, fruit, healthy, kiwi, mango, stone fruit, summer, Sweet, tropical fruit

{Baking} CORNMEAL DROP BISCUIT PEACH COBBLER ... for times when the mason doesn't show up!

"There's your karma ripe as peaches."Jack Kerouac Even while the hammers rains blows and the kitchen is in shambles, I have a list of things to do. A cobbler was on my must bake list before the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website (read full article)

cobbler, cornmeal, Dessert, healthy, peach, Pistachios, stone fruit, summer

{Daring Bakers} CHOCOLATE & VANILLA SWISS SWIRL ICE CREAM CAKE

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."Seneca The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m (read full article)

{Baking} Stone Fruit Almond Crumble ... baking in the midst of rubble, and LOVING it!!

"Mind like a sieve these days and the attention span of a flea!!"   Jeanne Horak @ Cooksister I love the quote above. Words from Jeanne @ CookSister in emails being exchanged a couple of days... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs (read full article)

almonds, cherries, crisp, fruit, peach, Plum, stone fruit, summer

{Baking} Deluxe Triple Vanilla & Chocolate Cupcakes... and a winner for the business card giveaway

"The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!" Terry Moore I had these little beauties tucked away in my drafts folder for a bit. They are a variation on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi (read full article)

Chocolate, cupcakes, giveaway, vanilla bean, vanilla extract

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{Baking} MANGO VANILLA BAVARIAN CREAM CAKE ... and a FOOT for MacTweets!

"Through flour, sugar, butter and eggs, you've created the best recipe ever - friendship!"Ednah/ Janet @ LaDue & CrewYes, still summer here, with the rains that came and went, leaving us in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit (read full article)

Bavarian cream, birthday, cake, Dessert, Mac Attack, macaron, mactweets, mango, stone fruit, summer

{Baking} ROBERT'S ABSOLUTE BEST BROWNIES ... Ready for Dessert, David Lebovitz

“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”David Russell Ready For Dessert? Always!! Our home is always ready for dessert and it gurantees making the main meal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my (read full article)

brownies, Chocolate, David Lebovitz, Dessert, Walnuts

{Baking} STONE FRUIT & CHOCOLATE CLAFOUTIS ... with flaxseed!

"A man's worth has its season, like fruit." Francois de La Rochefoucauld As usual, my fridge is stuffed to the gills with an assortment of stone fruit. The weather is wonderful with the monsoons... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we (read full article)

cherries, Chocolate, CSN Stores, Dessert, flaxseed, giveaway, healthy, Linwoods, peach, Plum

{Frozen Dessert/No Bake} FRESH CHERRY FRO YO

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy”Thornton Wilder  He said this is what helped him survive his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w (read full article)

cherries, frozen yogurt, stone fruit

{Blog Event} PASSIONATE ABOUT PROPS ... Food Props on Sunday!

"I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character."Dan Aykroyd 'Rock-paper-scissors' ... used... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)

blog event, Blogging for a cause, props

{Baking} COCOA CHERRY DESSERT BROWNIES ... with Linwoods Milled Flaxseed, Cocoa and Berry Mix

"There's more to life than chocolate, but not right now.Anonymous THUD! It was that all too familiar noise of the postie chucking a parcel over the gate again. While I braced myself for probable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit (read full article)

brownies, cherries, cocoa, Dessert, FBC, Linwoods, oliveoil, original recipes, preserved bing cherries, stone fruit

{Daring Bakers/Baking} Chocolate Pavlovas with Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse & Preserved Stone Fruit

"To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater. It lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment."... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi (read full article)

cherries, Chocolate, Chocolate Epiphany, daring bakers, Dessert, giveaway, mascarpone, mousse, pavlova, peach

{No Bake/ Summer Drink} GINGER & PEACHY BUBBLES ... Ginger Ale & Peach Consommé

"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun"Noel Cowards The origin of that expression is from Rudyard Kipling who once described the delirium produced by the sun in India, observing that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi (read full article)

cooler, Drink, ginger, india, indian, peach, summer