Variations on Cooking

A Coulis can be made with almost any fruit; for this Thanksgiving, I made four: Raspberry, Blueberry, Cherry, and Peach. The proportions...

I wanted to make a cheesecake for this Thanksgiving, but I did not want to be the traditional sweet American cheesecake. So, for weeks, I...

I had found this recipe in my Grandmother's cookbook written on a piece of paper with many, many notes all over it. Cross outs,...

I have been playing around with these recipes for weeks now: adapting to other recipes from the turn of the century, to a recipe that was...

Continuing with the Bourbon theme, here is another recipe from a contest I had entered, which came in third due to a used "Spirits."...

There has been a running theme with the last few recipes I have posted - Bourbon. I found this on a recipe card in my Grandmothers...

Here is another recipe from my grandmother's files, which I have adapted over the years, but it's a great holiday cookie - Enjoy....

This is another of my Grandmothers recipes, like the previous recipes I have mentioned, this one has many recipe cards stapled together,...

Here are another one of my recipes for a contest, I did win but the company never published the recipe since I was a Yankee, well at...

Here is another of my Grandmothers recipes that I adapted. It was a very well-used recipe card, to the point there were several stapled...

This is my grandmother's recipe and it's a mayonnaise cake and it's sort of a Mocha cake, I made them into mini bundts for better...

Here is a new cookie that will be in next years Holiday Dessert Cookbook - It is one of the special cookies I have not shared before -...

This is another recipe from my friend Ina, I did swap out a few ingredients but this is a heavenly cake. Okay it's a bundt, and I do...

Ingredients 4 sticks of unsalted butter, room temp 3 cups of raw sugar 3 cups of unbleached flour 6 eggs 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice...

This recipe came about from another baking contest I entered. I came in second again, I was told the judges loved my recipe but the...

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...