French Fridays with Dorie – Haiku Pretty much the same… World Peace, Korova, Sable Dorie must love ’em Three cookbooks! Chocolate short breads in each. Redundant cookie! Eh, what can you do? You cannot stop with just one So grab some cold milk Shout from the rooftop! Evangelical cookies Dorie preaches them. Cocoa Sablés And […]
Cheese Soufflé
French Fridays with Dorie I owe a lot to the Cheese Soufflé. I’m pretty sure it was the dramatic allure of a Cheese Soufflé that coaxed my mother from the relative comfort of her mother’s recipe box towards a more exciting world full of culinary challenges and French flavors. These were the days before All Clad. […]
March 16, 2012 by 31 Comments
Thin Mint Cookie Scones
Happy 100th Birthday Girl Scouts!
So how did I end up with 50 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies this year? Well, I’ll tell you but before I do, did you know that the Girl Scouts recently had to face down a boycott of their beloved annual cookie drive? Seriously, they did. I ask you , is that any way to treat this […]
March 14, 2012 by 14 Comments
Impressive Herby Cheese Straw Thingies
I think your dinner or cocktail guests will be mighty impressed with these super Impressive Herby Cheese Straw thingies. They’ll try to stop at one but they won’t be able to. So easy to make too! No big deal. But, yeah, they ARE a big deal. ‘Cause everyone loves cheesy herby baked […]
March 12, 2012 by 14 Comments
Onion-Thyme Biscuit BLT’s
via Saint-German-des-Prés
French Fridays with Dorie – Haiku So, biscuits are French? They are if you rename them: “Saint-German-des-Prés”! What I learned from this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe is that if you add a little something to the ingredient list of an otherwise well established staple you can then give it an extraordinary sounding name […]
March 9, 2012 by 35 Comments
Roasted Banana Bourbon Ice Cream
Surprisingly, this blog’s inbox will sometime get an email that isn’t trying to sell me Viagra: “Dear Sis Boom blog, I think you “get me”. I am addicted to banana. Unfortunately, when I go shopping my eyes are bigger than my mouth. I tend to over-buy and so by the end of the week I […]
March 5, 2012 by 10 Comments
Mussels and Chorizo (with Bread!)
French Fridays with Dorie It wasn’t too long ago that the sight of uncooked mussels would carry me back to the summers of my youth in Newport Beach, California. The thought of eating these creatures would never have occurred to me back then. We would play on the beach and pry the mussels that grew […]
February 17, 2012 by 33 Comments
Peppery Chocolate Pot de Crème
In the living room a baby cries out; while slightly less angry, but surely just as passionate, pots of velvety chocolate smush demand to be noticed at the table. A first lingering bite befuddle the barometers of taste; they are left to grasp mixed messages fluttering across their allegedly cultivated tongues. “Did I just…?” Another […]
February 11, 2012 by 21 Comments
Meatballs: Vintage Style
“Hey buddy, these fancy meatballs are great! Thanks!” “No problem. It was the least that I could do.” And I meant it. It really was the least that I could do. * * * My grandmother used to say “be friendly with the neighbors but don’t be friends”. That pearl of wisdom sums up […]
February 7, 2012 by 9 Comments
