Variations on Cooking

Ingredients Chocolate cookie base 1 cup of unbleached flour 1 cup of Almond flour 1 cup of unsalted butter, 2 sticks, cubed and chilled 4...

Here is another of my favorite holiday treats I have not made in a while. I adapted from a 1960 Better Homes & Garden cookbook, the...

It has been quite some time since the last time I have baked one of these cakes. I will be baking a number of them for an event in a few...

Going through recipes for my next book I came across notes for this dessert I made a few times back in 2018, I used a sponge cake recipe...

I made these the other night for a dinner party and one of our guests asked for the recipe, I searched my blog and I had not posted this...

As I was going through recipe pads, I found this stuck in among the stews recipes, I adapted from a recipe from the 1960 cookbook found...

I was going through boxes from our move from the cabin, yes it was over a year ago, but since I have the time now I am sorting through...

Since we are on the KETO diet I have been looking for a way to make KETO friendly desserts, nut flours are one way and there is this new...

Ingredients Crust 2 cups unbleached flour 1 ½ stick on unsalted butter 2 large egg yolks 3 tablespoons raw sugar 1/2teaspoon vanilla salt...

I have been working on my 6th cookbook a sequel to my first cookie book when I came across this recipe written on the back of chicken...

As I am going through my recipes I came across this one that was written in the margins of another recipe for Lemon Chicken with the...

These are fun to make, a wonderful devil's food cake-like cookie. You can fill them with ice cream, a simple icing, or what I like to...

Chocolate Hazel Nut Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients 4 cups unbleached flour 1 cup whole milk or Half & Half 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter –...

Here is another recipe from 2005, I have not made this in a long while and with no flour in the stores and plenty of prepared frozen pie...

As I am sorting out all these recipes I am choosing which ones to post and which ones will go in my next few cookbooks. This recipe is...

Here is a variation on a recipe I posted back 2015 - Enjoy Ingredients 1 package of puff pastry dough - you will only need one sheet. 1...

Ingredients 5 cups of fresh basil leaves, packed well 1 1/4 cups of sun-dried tomatoes, rinsed, dried and chopped 1 cup of fresh...

Ingredients 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 4 teaspoons, minced shallots 1 pound, chopped mixed...

Ingredients 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter - 10 tablespoons of the butter melted and cooled slightly 1 1/4 cups of unbleached flour 4 to 5...

A few years ago Michael asked me to make Rugelach for an event at work. There is a bakery in NYC that makes outstanding Rugelach, so I...