This chocolate pecan pie is inspired by the the famous pie served in Kentucky each year for the Kentucky Derby. It’s so simple to make it’s a good choice for the holidays when you are juggling lots of other things.
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Chocolate pecan pie
Posted in Chocolate, Dessert, tagged dessert, Holiday recipes, pie, recipes on November 23, 2014| 1 Comment »
Silken chocolate mousse
Posted in Dessert, Recipes, tagged chocolate, dessert, recipes, tofu, vegan on June 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Don’t even bother with the words, “vegan” and “tofu.” Just let “silken chocolate mousse” roll off the tongue. It’s as creamy and delicious as it sounds.
I haven’t been too successful cooking with tofu at home. It’s just not that appealing to me in texture even though I know its benefits as a protein in meatless dishes. In order to make the golden tofu that I enjoy so much in Thai restaurants it takes some skill with corn starch and patience to brown it just right in cooking oil. I haven’t mastered that well enough to do it for the low-level midweek cooking I prefer.
But use silken tofu to make chocolate mousse in a blender? That I can handle.
Swedish apple pie
Posted in Dessert, tagged Apple pie, dessert, recipes on October 6, 2013| 1 Comment »
Apple picking is one of those seasonal markers in New England. With four seasons to pack in over 12 months it’s easy to sometimes forget to participate in annual rituals such as filling a plastic sack with MacIntosh, Macoun, and Empire apples or picking out a perfect pumpkin. This weekend, some friends and I managed to squeeze in a visit to a local orchard to harvest the fruit and pick up some cider doughnuts.
Frosted brownies
Posted in Dessert, tagged chocolate, dessert, Nemo, recipes, Valentine's Day on February 10, 2013| 4 Comments »
When the word came that Nemo was heading our direction blowing 65 m.p.h. winds and bringing at least 2 feet of snow, my friends Nathan and Emily, who live a few blocks away, extended the invitation for homemade chicken pot pie. I was in charge of bringing brownies.
I knew immediately that I wanted to bring The Pastry Chef’s Baking Frosted Brownies, since these are so decadent and delicious I definitely did not want to be left in the house alone with a pan. I have very little self-control around chocolate. Bringing them to a group dinner was the perfect solution!
Election Cake: An American tradition
Posted in Dessert, tagged dessert, elections, Historic recipes on November 5, 2012| 3 Comments »
The first known recipe for Election Cake, one of the first foods to be identified with American politics, was published as early as 1796 in Amelia Simmons’ “American Cookery” cookbook. In the 1800s, the cake was served at election time and by the 1830s it had became popularly known as Hartford Election Cake. (more…)
Custard pie
Posted in Dessert, Mary Baker Eddy Library, tagged dessert, Mary Baker Eddy, Victorian recipes on November 4, 2012| 5 Comments »
An easy place to begin for a month of Victorian recipe testing is custard pie. With its short list of ingredients, not much go wrong with this simple dessert.
Apple sour cream pie
Posted in Dessert, tagged apples, dessert, food, pie, recipes on October 26, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is my second apple pie of the season. My first apple pie came after an annual trek out to an apple orchard to ride in the tractor pulled wagon, pick a bag of apples, and eat way too may cider doughnuts and fist-fulls of kettle corn. It’s one of those things we do to mark the passing of time in New England.
White and dark chocolate chip blondies
Posted in Baked goods, Dessert, Recipes, tagged Blondies, Brownies, chocolate chips, dessert, food, recipes on October 12, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is a blondie recipe I put together while watching the vice presidential debates. I wanted to make something simple that wouldn’t have me babysitting the oven the way a batch of chocolate chip cookies would. I also needed to use up the miscellaneous ingredients I had in my pantry leftover from making Presidential Cookies with recipes from Michelle Obama and Ann Romney.
After poking around online, I found this recipe to serve as my base and then added white and dark chocolate chips, walnuts, and toasted coconut to make a blondie brownie bar. (more…)
Red, white, and blueberry trifle
Posted in Dessert, Holiday dishes, tagged blueberries, dessert, food, Fourth of July, recipes, strawberries, trifle on July 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
My Grandma Ruth’s birthday fell on the Fourth of July and hardly a year went by that she wasn’t presented with a sheet cake made to look like a flag with a blueberry-studded square in the upper left corner and rows of slivered strawberries marching across white frosting. Sometimes the sugary Old Glory was topped with sparklers.
Kentucky Derby bars for Cinco de Mayo
Posted in Baked goods, Dessert, Holiday dishes, tagged chocolate, Cinco de Mayo, dessert, food, Kentucky Derby, recipes on May 1, 2012| 8 Comments »
The Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Ky., falls on May 4-5, 2012. I’m not really swept up in the culture around the Derby, even though my mom lived in Lexington for nearly two decades. In my most cynical moments, I can’t understand the big to-do around a 2 minute race.
But I admit, I cried through “Seabiscuit,” “Secretariat,” and “War Horse.” There is something about these majestic, beautiful, intelligent creatures in motion that stirs the human spirit, no matter how intellectual one becomes about the trappings and heartbreak of betting on a horse.
What I do love without question is a Kentucky Pie That Shall Not Be Named – gooey pecans and chocolate over a buttery crust and smothered in a dollop of fresh whipped cream. With the Derby falling on Cinco de Mayo this year, I got to thinking about the perfect marriage: Mexican chocolate and buttery pecans.
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