Well this is the last recipe in the 2020 Christmas Treat series. An unusual year no doubt and I really hope I have given you recipes that made you hungry and blogs that made you smile. This is an old standby, thousands of recipes out there, I put my twist on the spice mix (well [...]
This is one of the most delicious flourless cookies I have ever tried. It’s from the master Pastry Chef Francois Payard. There are a ton of variations out there and this is another one – more meat on the best bones – so to speak, this is Christmas Treat #11 – Flourless Chocolate Walnut Cookies. [...]
This is the third and final Goan sweet recipe of the 2020 series. It is a lovely textured cake called Baath or Batica (pronounced the same way as the first spelling). This was also one of those cakes that was made with thousands of variations all incorporating the same ingredients in slightly different quantities and [...]
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 [...]
One of my favorite magazines Food and Drink comes from the LCBO. It is published every 2 months and I always look forward to the picking up the next edition. By far, the Christmas issue is always a favorite of mine. I give them credit as their recipes have always turned out for me and [...]
Oh come now, you didn’t really think I would miss on a savory cookie did you?! I have a chili pepper for a logo for goodness sakes! Keeping in the tradition of at least one savory cookie in the Christmas collection (https://foodinspires.com/2017/12/01/curry-leaf-and-dry-mustard-cheeselets/; https://foodinspires.com/2016/12/04/christmas-cookie-2-roasted-garlic-and-cayenne-cookies/ - to name a few). A very good friend of mine and [...]
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 [...]
This recipe is modified from an original black cake recipe. Two reasons, first – I chickened out with going too dark on the sugar – it looked black but clearly didn’t come out as black as the pictures I've seen of black cake. Second, I was never a big fruit cake fan – not a [...]
Well it is coming close to the end of a most bizarre year - certainly the most in my life time! So let's give a fitting "shove off 2020" with some treats for our very different upcoming Christmas and New Years. The optimist in me says we need to get the virus under control so [...]
The ultimate bar, for me has to be the Blondie. I’ve made so many variations of this but only blogged a few. Here is one that I know will become part of your repertoire. This time I’m using one of my favorite flavors - coffee. The better quality the better the taste (did I really [...]
