Sylvia and I cook and bake to relax and channel our creative forces. What is everyone else’s outlook? PS–I know we all do this because we have to eat but we all have more lofty reasons 🙂
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Tube Cake
Equipment and ingredients you will need. You will also need a large fluted tube pan (Bundt) or large regular tube pan. Spray or grease the pan well. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. This is a dense cake, so if you like light fluffy ones, this isn’t your cake! Cake however, melts in your mouth. But…
Shrimp & Lobster Sauce
Here’s the ingredients you will need. If it is at all possible to get “light soy sauce” this is the right one to use. This will be available at an Asian grocery, larger grocery stores with a wide Asian selection, or via the Asian grocers on the web. Please note this is not the Kikkoman…
Creamy Lime Squares
Here is the equipment you will need– Spray or grease a 9×9 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Here are the ingredients (eggs and food coloring not shown) Here we grate the lime zest with a Microplane. The correct way to use the Microplane is to have the channel facing up. That way, what…
Seasoned Crumbs/Coating Mix
All measures are approximate. Feel free to add whatever herbs/spices you like or add/cut down on some of my seasonings. 1 cup plain breadcrumbs 1 tbs onion powder 2 tbs garlic powder 3 tbs parmesan or romano cheese 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1/4 tsp oregano 2 tbs parsley Mix all together. I use…
Chicken Marsala
Chicken Marsala Slice mushrooms and pound chicken breast with a mallet between 2 sheets of wax paper to about 1/4 inch. Dredge breast in seasoned crumbs (recipe in blog) Heat a heavy stainless or cast iron pan (don’t use non-stick). Add the butter and the olive oil till butter melts and is bubbly. Add…
