These Soft M&M Cookies are divine. The cookie is light and soft without being doughy. The secret ingredient (French Vanilla instant pudding mix) helps them to rise high and stay moist and chewy, and of course heightens the vanilla flavor all at the same time. It's great. These cookies turn out wonderfully, and they're so...
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My Favorite Homemade Pizza Dough
Pizza is quite possibly my favorite food. I'm not referring to take-out pizza, which has its place, but the high-quality, made-from-scratch with fresh ingredients kind of pizza that somehow seems like an entirely different food group than the stuff that shows up at the door in a box. It's so easy, and so cheap to...
Vanilla Bean Macarons
Is it just me, or are macarons quite possibly the cutest concoction on the planet? I've been dying to try some for a long time now, but haven't had the opportunity. I intend to change that soon though! Until I get to try the real thing in a bakery with rows and rows of colorful...
Soufflé Au Chocolat (Chocolate Soufflé)
It never ceases to amaze me how much more reliable a Julia Child recipe is than that of any other cookbook author I've followed. I've been reminded of that fact again this week on a few occasions, this chocolate soufflé being one of them. Julia’s Chocolate Soufflé has been on my “Bucket List” of recipes...
Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread
I've got the perfect thing for you to make for yourself this weekend. The recipe for this Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread is so incredibly easy and it tastes and smells incredible, similar to Amish Friendship Bread but so much quicker! It's lick-your-fingers delicious. I am a complete sucker for baked goods containing buttermilk. It makes...
Madeleines (French Sponge Cakes)
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. I certainly did. However, I am growing weary of our dreary and bitter cold weather around here. I've been bitten with the travel bug and I am constantly dreaming of our next adventure, which will hopefully happen soon. (As you may know, I get to live in...
Homemade Dutch Oven Bread: Kneaded and No-Knead Methods
I've spent the last few days trying out lots of versions of Dutch Oven bread, and let me tell you, the results are tasty! I've got recipes for a kneaded Dutch oven bread, and one that requires no kneading at all. Both are very easy and could pass as a loaf from an artisan bakery...
Apple Charlotte with Vanilla Crème Anglaise
I've been wanting to make an Apple Charlotte ever since I saw Julia Child demonstrate it on the French Chef. I was all the more inspired once I got my Charlotte mold for my birthday a few months ago. It seemed only fitting that I should actually get around to trying my hand at one...
Crab Canapés
These delightful crab canapés are a very quick and easy appetizer to prepare anytime you're entertaining guests, whether it be for a Downton Abbey dinner party, or to munch on while watching a football game.
Nativity Cookies and the Truth of CHRISTmas
These cookies are more about truth than about any recipe, or appearance or flavor. They represent the truth of Christmas. Not the x-mas that involves everyone spending too much money and too much time doing things that have no eternal meaning. I'm talking about the CHRISTmas that is why we actually have something to celebrate....