Serious Eats: A Food Blog and Community. Dorie Greenspan. Soups, Starters, Snacks and Nibbles Here are recipes for soups and appetizers, everything from finger foods to snackables. Salads and Sides From traditional greens to seafood and vegetable salads, there're all here and there are easy side dishes, too. Main Courses The main course, quite literally. Sweets The reason we're all crazy about food, right? Breakfast Treats Biscotti with your morning coffee? Cookies You can never go wrong with cookies.
Pies and Tarts There's nothing like a freshly baked pie to remind you of why you started baking in the first place. Cakes ..mmm....mmm... Ice Cream, Puddings and Cussards I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... Indescribables Sweet treats so good they defy description! Homesick Texan. I made that! Dear Pork, We meet again. This time things got intense. As per usual I was dabbling in vegetarianism, reading books like “Animal Factory” and “Eating Animals” and having thoughts like “I just can’t keep eating meat”. Then I bought a groupon for Barnes and Noble. Dammit, I blame it on them. I was perusing the shelves, looking for just the right present to myself (I’ve imposed a cookbook moratorium on myself so this was a big day). First I marinated you in a magical sauce with all kinds of delicousness: five spice powder, hoisin sauce, honey, soy sauce and much more. Then I laid you on a rack to go in the oven. And roasted you until you were all glossy and charred and happy looking.
From there I took it a step further. While you waited patiently, I made a dough, a dough not too different from my favorite hamburger bun dough. And then I encased you in that dough, giggling with every pleat. You made adorable dumplings. I let your dough rise until soft, and then I roasted you again. 1 TBSP sugar. Smitten kitchen.
Recipe Index. Southern Style Strawberry Cake. My favorite food is cake, and my favorite fruit is definitely the strawberry. Why not combine the two? I found a recipe for a Southern Style Strawberry Cake through Joy the Baker and new instantly that I had to make it. It was very simple to make thanks its use of a cake mix, but tasting it you’d never know.
And the frosting turned out to be the best cream cheese frosting I’d ever made. Since I had so much leftover I decided to take the rest into work. This is the perfect cake for summer and I encourage everybody to make it. Southern Style Strawberry Cake Adapted from Joy the Baker Makes 1 two-layer 9 inch cake 1 box white cake mix (without pudding) 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry jello 1 tablespoon self rising flour 4 teaspoons sugar 3/4 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 1/2 cup water 1/3 cup strawberries, finely diced Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To make the cake, combine cake mix, pudding mix, flour and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Divide the butter amongst the pans. Sugar Plum: Chocolate. Joy the Baker — I feel like I’m grasping tight to the things around me these days.
I’m probably the first to shrug off the change of season, the change of moving cities, and the change of traveling a ton as no big deal…. but it all adds up to matter and I have to admit I feel a little crazy in the brain. This season I’ve started a new workout routine. Since I’ve moved away from my beloved SoulCycle in California, I’ve started practicing Bikram Yoga in New Orleans. I’m terrible. I’ve also taken out my Tender cookbook (a Spring go-to) and am daydreaming my way through Donald Link’s Down South cookbook in an effort to acclimate myself to my new city and surroundings. Here are a few more Spring flings I’m into these days. 1•• I am very pale. 2•• I absolutely LOVE this Ellovi Body Butter. 3•• I’m thinking of sporting short fingernails with Blue Orchid Nail Polish as the weather gets warmer. 5•• When I was a teenager my mom told me that I had a ‘hat face’. 8•• Two Tone Sunnies. I love you! Vanessa Lincoln / Pinterest.