Apple Rolls with Butterscotch Whiskey Sauce
We are apple people at my house. Of course, as with anything, I am picky about apples. No mealy or mushy apples need apply. I want my apples frim, crisp, tangy, and sweet. Granny Smith and Fuji are my two favorites. So, when I have apples around, which I do more often than not, I get creative. Below is the result of my latest apple experiment. I had the apples, a packet of defrosted phyllo dough, and a well-stocked...
Naan
For the most part, I have had a lot of luck with bread recipes. If it does not work out the way I want on the first try I begin the tweaking process. It is not always fast but I get there in the end. I say for the most part because I have had one bread nemesis. One bread that, no matter how I tried, would never work out the way I wanted. That bread was the delicious Indian flat bread called naan. Naan is my nemesis no longer. ...
Cream Filling for Cupcakes
This recipe is not specifically for cupcakes, but it is REALLY good in cupcakes. I found a recipe on the most excellent blog Nosh With Me for Oatmeal Cream Pies. I loved those plastic wrapped cookie sandwiches when I was a child so I knew I had to try them. The pies were good, but it was the filling that grabbed my attention. I wondered, how it would work if piped into the center of a cupcake? So, I tried it out. If you like those...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
If you love chocolate then this recipe is the one for you. My husband, who used to work in restaurants, would make this for me years ago when we were dating. I found his old book of formulas and remembered how good this simple cake was and decided to go about making it. His formula was for enough to make ten cakes, certainly too many for little old me, but it was easy enough to scale it own for one 9″ round cake. When you...
Flour Tortillas
When I was growing up in South Texas we had this neighbor who would, on Saturday afternoons, make her tortillas for the week. Believe me, I made friends with her children so I could make myself available for tortilla day. I think she enjoyed my enthusiasm and always had a few extra tortillas for me to take home. They were sublime! My family would fight over them, and no matter how many she sent home with me they were always gone...
Wacky Cake
Guess what this cake is missing? Can’t do it? Then read on … My husband was listening to the radio a few days ago and the reporter was discussing money saving recipes. One recipe was from the Great Depression called Wacky Cake. In an effort to save money, and because food items such as eggs, butter and milk were selling for a premium, home cooks had to use what was on hand. Wacky Cake is one such ‘make do’...
