I’ll admit, this spaghetti recipe is usually my go-to in the late summer months, when fresh basil and tomatoes are at their peak of local freshness, and I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking dinner. But I’ll bet it’s good anytime, especially when it’s cold and drizzly and you…
Month: December 2015
Recipe Review: Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Every so often, I have a special request baking commission, such as the vegan cookies I made HERE. I’ve even dabbled with gluten free (GF) baked goods before, with some success, like the GF macaroons I made, and some major failures, like the GF carrot cake that exploded all over my oven and irritated me…
15 Tips for Better Baking: Ingredient Info
In my next installment of “15 Tips for Better Baking”, I thought I’d concentrate on ingredients. After all, they’re the building blocks of a great recipe!
Christmas Baking Recipe Post: Gingerbread Men for DAYS……
Recently, an amazing new friend and I had a hoot and holler of a time at the BirdHouse, making and decorating gingerbread men from scratch. The idea was to batch-bake and decorate a bunch of gingerbread cookies which we would then gift pretty much entirely to a big group of other friends we were hanging…
Christmas Baking Recipe Post: Chocolate Buche de Noel/Yule Log
This cake is so much fun to make! I made a few of these in my first year of Pastry School, and a couple of Vanilla ones as well, and they were very well-received. If you still have little time before Christmas to do some baking, then I suggest you give this cake a try….
BirdHouse Diaries 