Yes, it’s been months. Nine long months during which I didn’t post a thing on this blog, despite the fact that I have indeed been baking. Sheer laziness. I’ve been eating paleo/primal since the beginning of the year; the main difference from my old life is that there are no grains and no processed sugar. [...]
So, some of you may have noticed a dearth of posts in the past couple of months. Also, some of you may know that Tim lost 90 pounds last year by following what’s called the primal way of eating. These things are not coincidental in any but the most literal sense. Although I lost 30 [...]
This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipes was Translucent Maple Tuiles, chosen for us by Clivia of Bubie’s Little Baker. I’ve been eyeing this recipe for as long as I’ve had Baking: From My Home to Yours, so I was very happy to have an excuse to bring cookies into our increasingly low-carb life. Most of [...]
Oh, yes. I love Tuesdays With Dorie. This week’s recipe, chosen for us by Nicole of Bakeologie, is a modest little number, a peanut butter blondie with chocolate chips. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But they’re the crack of the cookie world. I don’t even like peanut butter cookies, so I wasn’t expecting much from this recipe. [...]
I’ve been part of the Tuesdays With Dorie group for two and a half years (!) now, and I’ve noticed something about Dorie’s recipes: They often call for rum. Every single time a recipe has called for rum, I’ve panicked, because I never have it — and because I’m always baking at the last minute [...]
I couldn’t pass this one up, despite the fact that we just got back from vacation (very late Saturday night) and that we don’t eat carbs anymore. I mean, apple cake? Double apple cake? No chance. So while I was at the grocery store Monday (yes, that’s yesterday) afternoon, I looked for apple butter. I [...]
I really, really loved the batter for these. I always love batters and doughs, usually more than the finished product, but this was special. Really good. The muffins? Eh. Not so much. They were wonderful warm, but at room temperature they were kind of blah. (Which, oddly, is the opposite of what Dorie says in [...]
Oh, God. I love cookies, almost all of them. (Well, not those ones with candied fruit in the middle.) But I’ve never liked peanut butter cookies — they’re always dry and kind of pointless, in my experience. But these are fantastic. (Thank you once again, Dorie.) I made two batches, one straight and one with [...]
I don’t know why I wasn’t terribly fond of these: I love coffee, chocolate, and shortbread. The combination should have been fantastic. To be fair, I made them for my older son’s going-away party, and they had some competition. I also made Dorie’s World Peace cookies (with a combo of chocolate chips and mint chips [...]
Oh, yum. That’s pretty much my post for this week’s installment of Tuesdays With Dorie. It really encapsulates my feelings about these little nuggets of joy, and the feelings of everyone I shared them with. So thanks for stopping by. Oh, OK — I’ll be more specific. I made these a couple of summers ago, [...]
