French Fridays with Dorie Salted butter breakups to the rescue! If reinvention causes me to work up a thirst, natural disaster, environmental destruction and human tragedy of epic proportions will likely kill my desire for cooking up much of anything. This week’s sorrowful events in Japan have left me with zero drive for ‘chefing it […]
Baked Apples “Mendiant” with Caramel Sauce (aka Beggar’s Baked Apples)
French Fridays with Dorie Dear Dorie, Please forgive me for I have sinned. Well, perhaps ‘sinned’ is too strong a word but I had to make some substitutions for this week’s French Friday’s with Dorie assignment. [Gasp!] I know what you are probably saying, “Silly Sis Boom, people make substitutions all the time with recipes. […]
March 11, 2011 by 46 Comments
A Real Man’s Lemon Bar
These are not your grandmother’s lemon bars… I sometimes get that certain itch that needs scratching. A persistent yet familiar urge. I know when I get it that a lady will not be able to help me out with it. What about Martha you say? Surely she has what it takes? Nope. Martha is too traditional […]
March 2, 2011 by 16 Comments
Salted “Mayan” Almond Brownies
Sure I love the classics. I gather a lot of people must like the classics too — that is why they become… well… “the classics”, right? Films, books, plays….recipes. Each have their own set of examples referred to as classics. Each year during the Academy Awards run up I rent a classic film or three […]
February 27, 2011 by 10 Comments
Toasted Almond Scones
French Fridays with Dorie I bristle whenever anyone trots out that worn-out chestnut “cooking is an art but baking is a science”. Yeah, so you have to measure stuff and you have to know the difference between baking soda and baking powder (or at least know that there is a difference) . Would someone tell […]
February 22, 2011 by 13 Comments
Almond-Orange Tart
French Fridays with Dorie Making the Orange-Almond Tart for this week’s French Friday’s with Dorie assignment brought to mind an ex-boyfriend of mine from many years back. I hadn’t thought much about him in a long time but just like this frenchie tart, he was a bit fussy and, once all put together, not quite […]
February 11, 2011 by 29 Comments
Double Chocolate Mousse Cake
via Michel Rostang and Mother Sis Boom
Double Chocolate Mousse Cake For this week’s French Friday’s with Dorie recipe, Dorie stick’s Monsieur Michel Rostang‘s name on this lovely chocolate mousse cake. My mother unfortunately is not named but she should be as she makes a nearly identical treat evey Christmas Eve and has for decades. Her simple, elegant interpretation of Busche de […]
January 21, 2011 by 20 Comments
Pumpkin Pecan Cranberry Upside Down Cake
Check out this Pumpkin Pecan Cranberry Upside Down Cake. Cooking as a metaphor for life is certainly not a new idea by a long shot and I doubt very much that I could add to the already beleaguered concept . I will tell you, however, that any real metaphors are frequently lost if they are […]
January 16, 2011 by 8 Comments
Mini Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
If you resolved to give up sweets and pastry this year then you should just skip past the rest of this post. You won’t want to contemplate these mini pumpkin donut muffins unless you have either 1) a lot of self control or 2) an office full of hungry workmates who will gladly eat these up so as to spare you see this one
January 3, 2011 by 10 Comments
Speculoos (Don’t Forget the Egg!)
French Fridays with Dorie For someone who didn’t grow up with any “cookie traditions” I sure seem to baking up quite a few batches this week. I wasn’t in search of new traditions with that post but they do seem to be finding me. This cookie probably won’t become one, however as I just found […]
December 24, 2010 by 12 Comments
Grandmother Sis Boom’s Christmas Cookies
Some recipes call out to be made even though they are not glamorous or what some would call ‘blog worthy’. This is one of them. I make it today out of pure sentimentality and not because it has any technical or visual merit worth sharing. Several readers have recently asked me when I’m going to […]
December 21, 2010 by 8 Comments
Ice Cream Truffles
Don’t laugh. I know this isn’t really a recipe but but I gotta tell you this experiment in blogging is taking its toll on my stress levels around here. What with the demands of ‘the season’ and the end-of-the-year work stress in high gear and all that. (What kind of masochist willingly adds to this […]
December 8, 2010 by 2 Comments
Caramel Topped Semolina Cakes
French Fridays with Dorie I wasn’t really all that excited about this week’s French Fridays with Dorie assignment: Caramel Topped Semolina Cake. I suppose that if this were an American Idol act Judge Randy would say, “Check it out man, I was a bit wacked about cereal in a pastry but your ok dawg. Not […]
November 19, 2010 by 25 Comments
Sis Boom Bundt Cake
Perhaps you’ve seen her in the comments section of this blog now and then? Mary, the Food Librarian? I’m pleased to have her as my blog friend but she is also an actual, bona fide food blog celebrity — if there is such a thing. She is an actual librarian who has one of the […]
November 15, 2010 by 8 Comments
Chocolate Malted Whopper Drop Cookies
Halloween this year left us with a big, sad bowl of unloved Halloween candy (see below). Each year as Halloween shifts towards being more of a holiday for adults fewer children show up at our door. And yet I keep buying more than enough bags of candy, perhaps out of the fear that we will […]
November 10, 2010 by 5 Comments
