This is a variation my wife made of “ Hazelnut olive oil cake ”. Instead of hazelnut flour (which is a very expensive flour), she used almon...

Our window sill basil  is still growing very well. Although we use cuttings for pizzas and salads etc, we still need to harvest a relatively...

My wife’s sister sent this recipe from King Arthur Flour to my wife knowing my wife is a fairly accomplished baker (challenge???). It appear...

My wife is partial to spinach soufflé. Previously I made it the  traditional way  by separating the egg yolks and whites. Then making a béch...

We had an excess of strawberries which were nonetheless pretty good. So how to use them? My wife happened to come across a recipe for “Mini ...

We like gnocchi and every time we cook chicken or pork on the Weber grill, we also cook potatoes and my wife often makes gnocchi from any po...

We are a big fan of savory cookies . My wife came across this recipe for “ Salted oatmeal cookies ” and decided to make it. It turned out th...

We, especially my wife, like small appetizers or bites. She came across this recipe on-line and decide to make it. We had leftover “ figgy c...

I do not know how my wife decided to make this dish. She apparently saw this recipe on line and decided to make it.  The recipe calls for cu...

My wife found this recipe for “ Muffin with goat cheese and chive” in the Washington Post . Since we are big fans of savory cookies and muff...

As we mentioned before we are big fans of “savory” cookies which will go well with wine rather than as a dessert. My wife has made a few in ...

This is an additional installment in the continuing tale of “we are big fans of “savory” cookies which go well with wine.” My wife saw this...

I made this dish for lunch one day from what we had on hand and what we need to finish before it went bad. I just winged it without any part...

The other day, while we were grocery shopping at Whole Foods, my wife came back with “Hazelnut meal” and “Coconut flour”. She was obviously ...

When we order broccoli using our grocery home delivery service, we usually get three giant heads (see picture below). It is not possible to ...

This is an another cake my wife made from the new chestnut flour.   She came across the recipe using chestnut flour, persimmons, and butter...

We like pancakes for breakfast sometimes. One of the unusual ones we like to make is chestnut flour pancake ”. Since we are now in the chest...

Although we have dried apricots in the pantry, we almost never get fresh apricots. Somehow one day, we got a bag of apricots. We let them ri...

This is probably the last muffin my wife will make from left-over cookies; Because she has used them all up. This time it was using thin gin...

This is another example of my wife’s major morphing of a recipe into her own version. She saw the sweet roll recipe in Washington Post which...