On the Foodies’ Night In Twitter chat this week, I alluded to a Thai peanut dressing I made. When making it the first time, my family was skeptical, but they were won over pretty quickly. They asked that I share the recipe. Unfortunately, this is what I’ve been working off of: Not exactly user friendly. [...]

Many years ago, my wife found a recipe for pizza dough. At the time, I had just started moving from the dough cycle on the bread machine to doing the whole process myself. After one or two false starts (and big, doughy messes), I was making something that was great! We went from ordering pizza [...]

I volunteered to bake cookies for an event at my daughter’s school. I pulled out a recipe for chocolate chip shortbread. I’m particularly fond of the name of the name of the blog I got it from: ireallylikefood. It’s a simple recipe, with only butter, brown sugar, flour, vanilla, and salt. The recipe also calls [...]

For Passover, I usually make my award-winning French silk pie with a nut crust. However, I also saw a blog post about coconut macaroons. I decided to go ahead and give them a try. I’m fairly pleased with how they came out. Now we have two deserts for Passover.

I’ve had a string of good luck with online drawings the last few weeks. You may remember the Rhodia journal from a few weeks ago. This extended into a streak. On Monday afternoons, Cooking with Caitlin hosts the Foodies Night In Chat. It is on twitter, and definitely worth checking out. During their beef topic, [...]

I typically make Irish soda bread around time for Saint Patrick’s Day. Twitter friend Beth was commenting this afternoon about needing a new recipe to have, but not have to wait until Easter to pull it together. Since I was typing it up, I thought I would share with everyone. This is adapted from a [...]

As you may recall, last month I won the office bake-off with my French Silk Pie (now known in family lore as my “Award-Winning French Silk Pie”). I’ve had a few requests for the recipe in the office (and, over the years, a few requests on the web). I share it now, both with my [...]

Several weeks ago: “Daddy, can you make pretzels?” “It’s really too late to start that project today.” A couple weeks ago: “Daddy, can you make pretzels?” “We have all this hamentaschen to make.“ Last night: “Do you want to make pretzels?” “Can we do it tomorrow morning, Daddy? I want to watch ‘Phineas and Ferb.’” [...]

Purim starts Wednesday night. One of the traditions is hamentaschen, a cookie. A key ingredients jams, jellies, and preserves. My wife and daughter went a little nuts picking out flavors. This year, I made about 96 (eight dozen). All the flavors did present a challenge: there are a few where I’m not 100% sure what [...]

Today my office had a bake-off. I decided to enter. When we got the e-mail announcing it, I forwarded it to my wife and a member of my team, asking what I should make. As simultaneously as e-mail can be, they both answered. French Silk Pie. When I dropped off my pie, I saw the [...]