Upon finding out that I too owned and loved the Cake Book by Tish Boyle, the fabulous Cream Puff asked me if I would join her, as well as Mary of Alpineberry and Kate of Pie in the Sky, in making the same item from the book. I loved this idea since I always love to see how different people interpret the same recipe. The "cake" that was chosen was the Creamy Pumpkin Cheesecake with Ginger-Pecan Crust. Oh sure I have already posted about two other pumpkin cheesecakes...but one more wont kill me...right? :) I only made a 1/2 batch and if you do that you want to make sure to use 2 eggs plus one yolk, everything else can be halfed down the middle. If you are making the half batch it makes for two mini cheesecakes plus a little left over that you could probably throw in a muffin pan if you really wanted to. I have to say that the title does not lie, this was indeed a very creamy cheesecake and quite tasty(though it could just be the diet talking.....nah). The original recipe calls for … [Read more...]
A Little Giddy
So I never would have thought that I would have won a category in DMBLGIT....and low and behold my Texas Big Hairs Lemon-Lime Meringue Tart won in the edibility catergory. Yay. Too see the other winners go here to Toastpoint. … [Read more...]
Hype-R
I'm not one for hype usually. And the Magnolia Bakery in NY sure gets a lot of hype. All over some cupcakes, that you wait in line for and can only buy 12 at a time. Out of curiosity I bought the More from Magnolia Bakery cookbook a few years back to try out their vanilla cupcake recipe. It is my favorite by far. So to me it was worth the hype. I bought the first Magnolia Cookbook and last week At Home with Magnolia came out and I made sure to buy that. Now I hadn't seen it because I ordered off Amazon, like the majority of my cookbooks, and I didn't know what it would be about. I must admit that I am a little sad because there is only a small section on desserts, which of course I am all about. But overall it looks like a good cookbook and my first treat from it was well received by my husband. The recipe calls for peanut butter chips, which I was out of but will most definitely buy for the next time I make these. I used chocolate chips instead. Peanut Butter Blondies with … [Read more...]
Pumpkins, good for more than just muffins….
So when we moved to the Seattle area two years ago the first thing my husband asked before moving up here was "what is one thing you want to do in Seattle?" I'm sure he was expecting me to say go to the Space Needle or something like that, but no, I said "I want to go to the Herb Farm." He said, "sure." That was until we saw the price and nearly fell over. Phoenix is not the culinary mecca of the world and try as it might it never will be. It isn't around fresh anything and to make a good restaurant, in my opinion, you need to be around the bounty of the land. Phoenix has no bounty...just dirt. Back when we lived there I had read about the Herb Farm in one of my food magazines, I want to say Food and Wine. I saw the restaurant on the Food Network and read a many articles after that about the amazing experience at the Herb Farm. My husband is never one to go back on his word so we saved up so that we could go. We had nothing to do for Thanksgiving last year and so we decided that is … [Read more...]
