I have always thought that the whole point of a blondie was that it was to be something of an “anti-brownie”. The butterscotchy yang to the brownie’s overplayed chocolate/cocoa yang. By rights, shouldn’t that mean blondies should contain no chocolate at all? Ever? What was I doing upsetting the natural order of things and letting down my own creative self all at the same time? Shame on me.
Financiers for Madeleine
French Friday’s with Dorie I know this sounds like a remarkable coincidence but have a friend named Madeleine who is a financier. No, really. I do. Thinking of her now as I write this makes me giggle — probably because “madeleine” and “financier” both have associations with small French cakes. She probably knows this because she […]
April 12, 2013 by 36 Comments
Coeur à la Crème & my broken heart – A night to forget!
If you get the impression from the Coeur à la Crème photo above that I am hostile towards Valentine’s Day, I can assure you I am. I owe this ‘holiday’ no loyalty! February after February the day as never failed to sour any sweet display of love I have felt while eating a fancy […]
February 15, 2013 by 45 Comments
Chocolate-Almond Tweed Torte
This is another of those posts where I get to tell you how incredibly blown away I am by a recipe at once so simple, using only a handful of ingredients, yet achieving extraordinarily elegant and sophisticated results. How anything as easy to make as this Chocolate Almond Tweed Torte can have any right to […]
February 5, 2013 by 11 Comments
Pumpkin Biscoff Cookie Cupcakes
Today these sweet Pumpkin Biscoff Cookie Cupcakes are actually a bit bittersweet. My baking seems better when the cake, pie, or loaf I am producing is meant as a proxy for any actual feelings I can’t quite express face-to-face. In fact, unexpressed sentiment has always been a secret ingredient of my best kitchen work. Unexpressed […]
November 19, 2012 by 13 Comments
Spice Poached Pears by Dorie Greenspan
French Fridays with Dorie – Haiku Spice Poached Pears Spice Poached Pears To time to prepare! My post-vacation time-crunch No time for Dorie! I ponder the pear Apple’s elegant cousin “easy” suits my style. Another Dorie Recipe non recipe Only takes minutes. Adapt with freedom Impossible to get wrong Poach to your pleasure Some pears […]
September 14, 2012 by 31 Comments
Olive Oil Ice Cream with Lemon Infused Olive Oil and Fleur de Sel
French Fridays with Dorie Olive Oil Ice Cream I hope you will pardon my brevity as I begin posting a few French Friday’s with Dorie assignments over the next few days. I’ll start with this week’s assignment and go backwards. I knew the idea of olive oil ice cream would seem a bit odd […]
June 8, 2012 by 31 Comments
Double Chocolate Bread With Peanut Butter Spread
I recently attended a special housewarming for Belinda, the lady across the street. The first time I ever saw Belinda she was wearing her bathrobe and dragging a heavy trash bag down the street to a neighbor’s construction dumpster. In her high heels. Brad’s infamous party had come and gone without many injuries or any severe […]
May 17, 2012 by 27 Comments
Lemon Buttermilk Ice Cream
I don’t often have buttermilk in the refrigerator. When I do have it on hand, however, the quart sized carton will always be at least three quarters full. (Why don’t they sell smaller sizes?) It will also have worked itself to a position of near invisibility by being out of sight and out of reach near the back […]
April 25, 2012 by 7 Comments
Cocoa Sablés
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 […]
March 23, 2012 by 51 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
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
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
Rustic Swiss Chard Tart
What type of establishment would I be running here if I didn’t do something nice to show my appreciation my loyal and valued readers at Christmas? Since you are here and you put up with me you you are deserving of something special to conveys my real appreciation for your continued patronage here at Sis. Boom. […]
December 19, 2011 by 15 Comments
