Posts tagged “baking”

Happy Thanksgiving. Make this tart with whatever apples you like, but if you can find Arkansas Black apples (these were from the store known as “Whole Paycheck”) buy lots of them– they keep in the crisper drawer a long time, and get blacker and sweeter with age. They are sweet/ tart– great for baking, but also nice and crisp for eating. Thank you Johnny Appleseed! I sliced mine here on the mandolin– but I have made this tart with thicker slices, and it was still very good. The crust is a super buttery sweet tart pastry from Mark Bittman in The New York Times. The recipe made enough for a very simple 10 inch tart, or a folded edge/ rustic 9 inch tart. Tarts are…

Categories: dessert, recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: apple tart, arkansas black apples, baking, Basic Tart Crust, buttery, food, holidays, Mark Bittman, new york times, pastry, pie, recipe, thanksgiving

Pumpkin Apple Muffins

Meredith

Posted on October 5, 2013

I bought a Kent pumpkin, although no one at the check out stand knew what kind of pumpkin it was. I told them, “It’s a Kent pumpkin.” But the prices listed were only for butternut and acorn squash. They decided to ignore me, and then both agreed it was a dumpling squash. It was a Kent pumpkin, which is about five times the size of any dumpling squash, but I didn’t argue with them. Sometimes grocery clerks can only believe varieties that are in the book with a code next to the name– and sometimes we are lucky to have some extra varieties sneak in to the produce section, like this Kent pumpkin did. Kent pumpkins, as I learned from the winter edition of…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: apple, baking, donna hay, japanese pumpkin, kent pumpkin, low sugar, muffins, pumpkin, recipes

Elevated

Meredith

Posted on December 11, 2012

When it came to Christmas cookies in my family, there were traditions upheld out of the sheer belief that we needn’t make any new cookies because the ones we made year after year had risen to the top of the cookie food chain, and were clearly superior to all other cookies, hence their being elevated to a Christmas cookie, from just an any-old-time-of-year cookie. Some of these cookies required a good deal of extra labor, but they were not overly complex endeavors. In fact, what made them so impressive was their simplicity. The end result is something that requires work, but is deceptively elegant in ingredients and flavors. Last year, tsp’s first Christmas season, I introduced you to the greatest cookie recipe ever devised, and it…

Categories: recipes, vegetarian

Tagged: apple, baking, cardamom, carrot, christmas, cookie cutter, cookies, dessert, food, holiday, recipe, semolina, shortbread, whole grain

Candy Cane Cookies

Meredith

Posted on December 13, 2011

I think these are Santa’s favorite. I have been leaving them out for him since I was big enough to love Christmas (at a very young age, in fact). These cookies are not only cute (Betty Crocker calls them “gay candy canes”) they are a perfect mixture of light vanilla butter cookie and marzipan flavor. While making them I discovered why people have children: to do the manual labor of making dozens of cute cookies (I’m on to you Mom…) But because I love to post here, I did it all myself (wipes forehead), so you could have the recipe AND the pictures. Do find some children to help you, since this is so much fun. After making these, and the chocolate pudding pie, I…

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Tagged: almond, baking, betty crocker, candy cane cookies, chirstmas cookies, vanilla

greatest cookie recipe ever devised

Meredith

Posted on December 12, 2011

The rain has stopped, but the sun is hiding. The house is warm from baking. There are cardinals in the garden. The note that accompanies the recipe for Viennese Crescents says that when the recipe was first published in the New York Times, “one food authority wrote that it was, in her opinion, the greatest cookie recipe ever devised.” I read this today, somehow for the first time, after having enjoyed these every Christmas since I was a kid. I say to myself, “uh-huh,” and reach for my jar of vanilla beans. They are toasted, nutty, fragrant, and really so perfect in their simplicity. The vanilla bean is macerated in the confectioners sugar that they roll in after baking. They are rich, but delicate and crumbly. The batter…

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Tagged: baking, christmas cookies, new york times cookbook, recipes, vanilla bean, viennese crescents, walnuts

Pie Lesson

Meredith

Posted on November 24, 2011

Objective: I can apply a variety of pastry techniques to bake a delicious apple pie. My friend Terry made an apple pie today. I was the pie-coach. She did a great job! It turned out beautifully! We documented in case anyone doubted her abilities (ahem). It was great to return to the lovely kitchen where Tlacuache and I assisted in baking our own wedding cakes last spring. We will see how it tastes tomorrow, but we did get to sample the pastry with a little scrap made into an empanada with cinnamon, sugar and butter, and it was rich and flaky. It tasted sweet and tangy, and the crust was buttery and flaky, a classic! Happy Thanksgiving everyone, now get to work and bake this pie. Here…

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Tagged: apple pie, baking, butter, food, pastry crust, recipe

Posts tagged “baking”

Arkansas Black Apple Tart

Meredith

Posted on November 27, 2013

Pumpkin Apple Muffins

Meredith

Posted on October 5, 2013

Candy Cane Cookies

Meredith

Posted on December 13, 2011

greatest cookie recipe ever devised

Meredith

Posted on December 12, 2011

Pie Lesson

Meredith

Posted on November 24, 2011