I think I have said this before, but I am truly grateful that my wife was never a fan of Valentine's Day! She is much to practical and smart to follow trends and others such things. Her thinking has always been that there shouldn't be a day that is dictated as to when you show [...]
In my morning scan of recipes (a while back), I came across this super interesting technique for making these delicious cookies. The flavoring for the cookies caught my eye, three of my favorite flavors - coffee, maple syrup and chocolate. But what really got me interested was the technique used to make the cookies. There [...]
For those of you who are regular followers of my blog, you know I’m a huge fan of Dorie Greenspan. I’ve always liked her recipes and I especially like the way they can be adapted – although they don’t ever need to be, to ingredients I happen to have on hand. This is inspired by [...]
I have been meaning to post this recipe for a while now, but each time I make it we dig into it before getting the pictures for the blog. But today, I was determined to take pictures before sitting down to dinner. For a dish with so few ingredients, it is packed with enormous taste. [...]
A few years back, I had the pleasure of meeting and Chef’ing for a class led by Stephen Twining – a 10th generation Twining and Tea Ambassador. He was introducing a new line of tea which I used to make some Earl Grey shortbread cookies (https://foodinspires.com/2016/03/01/twinings-london-strand-earl-grey-tea-cookies/). Last week I ran across a recipe for a [...]
Who would have thought that those tiny seeds would have so much flavor in them. I’m talking about sesame seeds of course, and in this recipe – tahini, specifically. I love the earthy taste that can be made both savory and sweet. This is a maple brownie with a tahini infused cookie base. Not your [...]
Dare I say it?! Nasi Goreng-ish with a twist (of course). I was looking through old photographs in my archives and found this picture of a recipe I first made probably 15 – 20 years ago. It’s been done a few times since then and I don’t know why it never got blogged. But here [...]
I can’t believe in all the years I’ve been baking, that I have never before baked a Thumbprint Cookie. In my quest to always find interesting recipes, this one comes from my daughter’s good friend Elena – on her own, a professional Food Scientist with a passion for baking and cooking. She made them using [...]
I am adding three Goan sweet recipes to this series – a simple Coconut Sweet - Gons, a more traditional Coconut Cake – Baath, and a roundish Coconut Cookie called Bolinhas, with a twist. Jeez, you’d think coconuts grew on trees back home! My wife and I picked the latter two from a collection of [...]
These are just ridiculous cookies! And I mean that in the nicest way possible. The sweet/salty maple flavor gives way to the pecan toffee bites. When these are cooling on the rack, it is utterly impossible to walk by and not put one in your mouth. This is Christmas Treat #4 – Sweet and Salty [...]
