Miscellaneous Cooking

This is slick and sumptuous. Five minutes of your time, no candy thermometer and just rave reviews. You can also stir in chunks of Oreo cookies, a jar of marshmallow cream, dried cherries. dollops or dulce de leche, or chunks of mint chocolate.

These are lickity split to make but wonderful, served with chilled salmon or turkey.

If measures and precision were not part of recipe writing or too-zealous bakers (who forget it's not about the measure, it's about the heart of the matter..), how would this baker write the perfect recipe for an Old-Fashioned Apple Pie? Easy as pie....you write from the heart and true spirit of the baker. It's pie recipes as they really should be written.....for the recipe that goes with this tribute, visit Old Fashioned Apple Pie.
 

This dreamy, ambrosial apple sauce wil never make it from the pot to the dessert dish. Forget about leftovers! It is outstanding on its own, or atop chesecake, yogurt and granola, or with vanilla ice-cream. The combination of apples, vanilla and a few other goodies makes this a new classic.

This is rich, smooth and sumptuous. Perfect for Rosh Hashanah or break-the-fast Yom Kippur or a Sunday brunch dish.

What’s more inviting that spice and warmth in a cup? This is a seasonal perk that will make your espresso pot beam. If you have a steamer for the milk, that’s super. If not, simmer the milk and half and half to simmering, so that is shivers with foam. The pumpkin puree is canned. Best to use most of it in pie, muffins or pumpkin bread and ‘borrow’ ½ cup or so that you can keep refrigerated or in half ice-cubes (frozen) and use it as you need for this marvelous potion. For a less rich drink, use all milk.

This is for everyone - vegetarian or not. It is terrific food - a filling for a sandwich or stuffed into pita breads with tomatoes and other good things, or scooped onto a big garden salad. It is a hearty and zesty and easy! An amazing recipe I learned when I used to be the head baker in a Californian sandwich/salad place in Montreal called Bio Train. It calls for nutritional yeast - not to be confused with baker's yeast - and nutritional yeast which looks like a golden, bran just adds more flavor and nutrients BUT IF YOU CANNOT FIND IT -leave it out!! This is still fabulous!

Forget bread crumbs; instead try a crispy, lightly crunchy corny chicken.
This is good hot or cold so save some leftovers for the summer picnic basket.