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Torta alla Carota & Zenzero / Carrot and Ginger Cake. Easy Strawberry & Yogurt Muffin Recipe. When it comes to food, not much has been on my mind besides the Get Grillin’ event I’m hosting with Marla of Family Fresh Cooking.

Easy Strawberry & Yogurt Muffin Recipe

Well that, and strawberries. From Easy Strawberry Sorbet (three ingredients, people) to Frozen Strawberry & Lime Daiquiris, it is safe to say that I am smitten with the sweet, red fruit. The last day of school is tomorrow and I wanted to make a treat for my boys. These muffins are made moist with yogurt and fragrant with the fresh berries. What did my boys think? Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and ground ginger. In the bowl of a stand mixer set on medium speed (or in a large bowl, using a hand mixer), beat unsalted butter and sugar until fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Turn the mixer to low speed and beat in the flour mixture alternately with the yogurt, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Coat 1 1/2 muffin tins (18 cups) with cooking spray.

Cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Torta light con crema di gelato. Guest Post: Kanelbullar, Swedish Cinnamon Rolls, Plus A Swedish Playlist. Breakfast Recipe: English Muffin French Toast Recipes from The Kitchn. Sometimes the best kitchen discoveries aren't because of a fancy new pan or the latest addition to your cookbook library.

Breakfast Recipe: English Muffin French Toast Recipes from The Kitchn

Sometimes they happen by pure accident. Some of a chef's most cherished recipes probably came about from a careless error or minor mishap. Chess Pie. Quick and Easy Recipe: Yogurt Cake. This particular recipe comes with thanks from both Clotilde and Deb at Smitten Kitchen.

Quick and Easy Recipe: Yogurt Cake

Homemade Nutella. Many years ago I worked in a restaurant in New York with a group of other cooks, who were mostly women and we were all friends.

Homemade Nutella

We’d gather in the cold morning kitchen, working around a communal wooden counter near the warm stove armed with cups of strong coffee as we set about our various tasks while engaging in conversations while doing all the repetitive work of chopping the piles of vegetables we used for soups, salads, and other things that we were going to prepare the rest of the day. One woman, who I’ll call Mary Smith (and who, for some reason, we all called her by her complete name, “Mary Smith”, rather than just “Mary”), was bookish and almost librarian in her demeanor, and she was attending a local Ivy league institution, getting her doctorate in Russian and Russian studies.

Buttermilk-Lemon Chess Pie Recipe. Difficulty:Easy | Total Time: | Makes:1 (9-inch) pie (8 to 10 servings) Chess pie, or “chest pie,” may have gotten its name from the small, tin-roofed cabinets that used to be common in kitchens for storing cooling pies and other baked goods.

Buttermilk-Lemon Chess Pie Recipe

This version has a rich, eggy custard filling with a tangy flavor from buttermilk and lemon zest. Plus, its crust doesn’t require any prebaking to stay flaky, so the whole thing’s relatively fast to put together and get into the oven. A thick slice stands perfectly on its own, no adornment required. Game plan: You can make the pie dough ahead of time, wrapping it tightly in plastic wrap and storing it in the refrigerator or freezer. For the crust: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out the dough1/4 teaspoon fine salt5 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces1/4 cup shortening, frozen and cut into small pieces3 to 4 tablespoons ice water1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Better-Than-Crack-Brownies. Lindsey Shere’s Legendary Almond Tart. Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls. ‘Big Picture’ life thoughts: Be kind.

Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls

Be kinder than you think yourself possible. French cruller doughnuts recipe. Recipe: french crullers I went on my annual sandhill crane migration shoot in southern Colorado earlier this week with my shooting partner, Jason.

french cruller doughnuts recipe

We crammed driving to and from Monte Vista, four shoots, a half day at Wolf Creek (ski resort), and not a lot of sleep into 48 hours. The town of Monte Vista, Colorado holds their Crane Festival this weekend (March 9-11). shooting at sunset pre-dawn tandem silhouettes as the sun rises A big shout out and thank you to Pro Photo Rental for supplying us with the 200-400mm Nikkor f4 and the 500mm Nikkor f4 on this trip.

White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies. My cookies are like little piggies: “this cookie went to market, this cookie stayed home, this cookie ate roast beef.”

White Chocolate and Macadamia Cookies

The cookies from my oven end up in the hands and bellies of friends all over town. Orange Almond Scone Recipe. Orange Almond Scones I loved creating new cookie recipes for our cookbook, Cookie Cravings.

Orange Almond Scone Recipe

The only hard part was not being able to post the recipes on the blog right away. Aebleskivers. Aebleskivers/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman I love Twitter for maybe 50 or 60 different reasons and this post resulted from one of them.

Aebleskivers

A year ago, Donna was poking around in an antique store, bought the above pan for no explainable reason and put it in the basement where it sat untouched for, well, a year. The other day, looking for something to shoot an egg in, she brought it upstairs along with a few other props. » Orange Chiffon Cake - Ricetta Orange Chiffon Cake. Lo chiffon cake è il classico ciambellone americano, il suo nome deriva dalla sua sofficità e leggerezza che rende questo dolce unico nel suo genere.

La caratteristica principale dello chiffon cake è che si utilizza olio vegetale al posto del burro e l’acqua o altri liquidi al posto del latte. L’unica nota dolente è che per fare lo Chiffon ci vuole uno stampo particolare, circolare con un tubo centrale removibile, quest’ultimo non viene imburrato e il dolce una volta tolto dal forno va fatto raffreddare a testa in giù sugli appositi piedini, o su un collo di bottiglia, procedura necessaria per mantenere leggero e soffice il dolce che come tutti i dolci tende ad appesantirsi verso il basso dopo la cottura.

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