a baking blog
To be honest, I’m not sure what put the idea for these peanut butter-banana brownies into my head. A couple of weeks ago, I had some overripe bananas sitting on my counter, and my plan was to turn them into chocolate chip banana bread. Then, …
When I was a child, my mother made hamantaschen for Purim using a dough recipe that involved butter and chilling and orange zest and was very gourmet. (It was probably from Gourmet.) Her fillings were traditional—prune and, if we were lucky, apricot jam. However, we …
For years, my favorite British cookbook authors have taunted me with their blithe references to winter tarts and cakes and pavlovas made with “forced rhubarb.” (Example: Nigella Lawson, How To Be a Domestic Goddess, page 107, “Rhubarb Tart”: “This is perfect for January, when the …