Eight Must Bakes from SWEET by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh

This month, @RainyDayBites' Instagram-based cookbook baked from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. There have been some pretty impressive bakes and a whole lotta butter spread across several feeds. The two challenges for the month were Blackberry and Star Anise Friands (p. 103) and Take Home Chocolate Cake (p. 152). I don't consider myself an…

ByMichelleMay 31, 20180Comments

GUINNESS CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH IRISH CREAM From Ottolenghi’s Sweet

There are about a zillion recipes for Guinness brownies out there. Some use store bought brownie mix, some go from scratch. This year I put all that aside when I saw the Guinness chocolate cakes with Irish Cream filling in SWEET by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. Without the recommended mini loaf pans, I turned…

ByMichelleMarch 14, 20180Comments

Baking

Hot Cross Buns or Not Cross Buns? The Choice is Yours

I'm known to bake hot cross buns any time of year, except maybe summer. Since Easter isn't a huge holiday for us, Good Friday usually sneaks up on me. This year, I'm ready. Over the last few years, I've tweaked a Donna Hay recipe and finally settled on it as my go-to. You can do a lot…

ByMichelleApril 12, 20170Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

Zucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts

I'm on a bit of a zucchini kick. For a vegetable that doesn't offer a whole heck of a lot of flavor on it's own, it's turning up on our table a lot these days. There was that simple zucchini salad last week, zucchini green chile fritters for dinner last night, and then this zucchini cake. NYTFood posted a…

ByMichelleJuly 26, 20160Comments

Cooking Dessert Recipes

Only 8 Years: Pizzelle & Raspberry Gelato

It took extreme laziness and a heat wave to finally get me here. All I needed was a box of ice cream cones, but it was too hot to walk and I too lazy to get in the car. After eight years, I finally broke out the pizzelle iron that's been sitting in a cabinet since…

ByMichelleJune 30, 20150Comments

Dessert Recipes

Killer Blackberry Froyo

At the tail-end of blackberry season, every week is a guessing game. Whose berries will best? Last week, the Skagit Sun blackberries and golden raspberries were terrific. This week those blackberries were phenomenal -- sweet and full of berry flavor. It's not hyperbole. I bought a mixed flat of blackberries, golden raspberries and regular raspberries and ate half a basket of the blackberries as I walked back to the car. Then I high-tailed it back to their booth to get another flat of just blackberries. I thought I might make pork chops with a blackberry-cabernet sauce, but then I remembered this froyo.

ByMichelleSeptember 16, 20121Comment

Entertaining Recipes

Sweet and Spicy Nut Mix

I don't really know why I started thinking about spiced nuts this weekend. Must be something about the sun being lower in the sky, and the cooler weather settling in...and the smell of anything roasting, whether its chiles or chicken or nuts, just feels like fall. I didn't think there was anything that could make pecans and almonds taste even better, until now.

ByMichelleSeptember 26, 20110Comments