Anyone who’s ever successfully grown zucchini knows that it starts out as fun and games with little zucchinis coming up maybe some nice squash blossoms, and then all of a sudden you’re drowning in more zucchini than any person can possibly eat and if you don’t harvest them they become frighteningly large. And it’s not…
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English Lemon Cake
I love lemon. If I could only eat two flavors for the rest of my life it would be lemon and garlic. Just to be clear there is no garlic in this cake. But my third favorite flavor, thyme, might make an appearance in future iterations. Or maybe lavender and gin…but I digress. Today is…
Grandma’s Basic Bread
Well winter seems to be officially over here in Houston. We had a good run, hit some freezing temperatures, but yesterday we were up in the 80s. I moved the tomatoes outside, moved the mint inside, and now it’s warm and humid enough to make bread making super easy. These houses aren’t really built for…
Apple Snacking Cake
For Thanksgiving this year we made the Gateau Invisible recipe from Serious Eats with miso caramel and it was amaaaaaazing but also very fiddly so my hope is that this recipe is like that but less fiddly. It’s probably not great sense on my part to direct you away to a different recipe but it…
Shortbread (Plain and Lavender Lemon)
This recipe really speaks to the idea that time is just a construct. Chill for an amount of time that feels right. Bake for an amount of time that feels right. Who needs specific instructions, really? Isn’t baking always supposed to have the confusion of a Bake Off technical challenge? Is the almond optional? How…
Louise’s Blueberry Pudding
So I’m thinking that this is pudding in the same way that the lemon blueberry pudding cake was pudding. There are no eggs or cornstarch so it can’t actually be a custard. Based on the instructions I’m having trouble identifying exactly what this is. It isn’t quite a buckle, it’s kind of like a grunt,…
No-knead Herb Bread
All of my grandma’s bread recipes have been pretty solid so far. The major exception is Quick French Bread which I haven’t posted yet because I’m struggling with making it a working recipe while retaining the essence of it. It’s just a terrible recipe. The first thing that jumps out about this recipe is the…
Broccoli Salad
There may be many people who like broccoli salad in the world, and I bear no ill will towards those people. You may be one of them, and for you I have included the original recipe from the grandmother. Good luck figuring out how many raisins to put it. My first (and only) experience with…
Greek Bread Braid
This is a great, lightly sweet, soft bread with a nice depth of flavor from the whole wheat or rye flour. The plaiting also looks very impressive even if it is only two or three strands. I’m sure you could do more strands and get crazy with it but the original recipe works well with…
Bay Scallops in Garlic Butter
This concept is 100% perfect, the only things I ended up changing here were ratios and the order of adding ingredients. Serve it with any crusty bread on a build your own crostini platter. Most recently I used Greek Braid Bread, but I’ve used sourdough and french baguettes too. I’ve been accompanying it with a…
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