This lovely cake comes from Smitten Kitchen, a very famous food blog with beautiful photos and recipes that sometimes work. I approached this recipe with a fair dose of skepticism (not to mention, blog envy) and about 2 lbs. of apples. And I’m so glad I did. After a few recent baking failures (including this week’s [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Smitten Apple Cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged dessert, baked, easy, breakfast, apple cake, Smitten Kitchen, blog envy, recipe failures, Jewish apple cake, mom's apple cake, tea bread, apple coffee cake on 10/28/2009 | 4 Comments »
Chunky Potato Cream Soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged easy, low fat, main dish, potato, soup, stew, vegetarian on 10/26/2009 | 1 Comment »
Image via The Big Blend
Cool weather just screams out for hearty, homey food, don’t you think? The weather dropped a good 15 or 20 degrees (Fahrenheit…have to specify now!) this past month in Berlin, and I’ve been craving comfort food. This chunky, creamy potato soup fits the bill without being a total fat-bomb. [...]
Foolproof Plum Cake
Posted in Foodstuff, Ingredients, Recipes, tagged almond, cake, coffee cake, damson, dessert, easy, Ina Gartin, Italian prune plum, Nachtisch, plum cake tatin, plum pudding, tarte tatin on 10/01/2009 | 5 Comments »
For most of August and September, Germany was awash in adorable Italian prune plums, known to Brits as “damsons” and to Germans as Zwetschke (or Zwetschge, depending). Don’t you just want to pinch their chubby cheeks?
Roughly half to two-thirds the size of regular red plums, these purple beaut’s were selling for 1.99/kilo (2.2 lbs.) at the [...]
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