by Brian | Oct 24, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
This is different kind of brownie recipe. No mix master, no stack of bowls to clean. It’s all done in a single saucepan. Most importantly this recipe employs much less flour than normal — so the result is a moderately thin and very fudgy brownie. Very fudgy. I do like...
by Brian | Sep 28, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I’ve posted before a recipe called Nuni’s No-Bake Cookies. Stashed in the middle of Cookie Time by Marilyn Miller Wasbotten, this recipe was one I remembered from childhood. I had lost the recipe but not the memories. Once I had Cookie Time,...
by Brian | Aug 20, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Cookies. They are among the first foods we eat and they fit into a special niche in our lives. Cookies are not dessert. They don’t count for that. And they are small so basically calorie free. There is a gracious, guilt free feeling about cookies. Uh, there should be....
by Brian | Aug 1, 2013 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I once had a girlfriend who announced, “There are no little things.” I may have mentioned her before. About how she said this to me, in a loud voice, then slammed the door. And then did not return. In retrospect, her leaving was little thing. I found myself with...
by Brian | Jun 28, 2013 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
So, I begin with a mea culpa. I have a tough time frosting cakes. Mine never look like the ones in the book and it was the picture in the book that first drew me to this recipe. But then there was more. If you read this blog, you know that I am a sucker for roulades,...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2013 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I was in error yesterday. The Strawberry Balsamic and Olive Oil Upside Down Cake was fine, but my description of the version that Suzen was so proud of – well, I did not do justice to her version. Cooking by the Book works very closely with Center for Celiac Disease...
