Tuesdays with Dorie: Creamiest lime cream meringue pie

One of the things I love most about baking is the chance to merge technical expertise with art.  Faced with a failed dessert, I’m sure I rival the most tormented artist.  I clatter dirty dishes in the sink, dump the ruined parts into the garbage, raise fists to the sky, and denounce the entire cursed [...]

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Lemon curry roasted chicken

Foster’s Market, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is an institution.  Since my parents live nearby, we’ve started a tradition of going to Foster’s for breakfast on Sunday mornings.  We love their herb biscuits with bacon, egg, and cheese; pancakes with fruit toppings; biscuits and gravy; bear claws; bread pudding; and lots more.
Sara Foster has written [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Applesauce Bars

All I needed was an apple and a jar of applesauce.  Trips to the grocery store don’t get any easier than that.  Dash in, grab, go.  But as I approached the produce section, I could feel that creeping sense of dread.  Here we go again.
Organic vs. conventional.  The question sits there, forcing me to reveal [...]

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Maple Blueberry Coffee Cake

Nancy of The Dogs Eat the Crumbs has long been one of my favorite Tuesdays with Dorie bloggers.  She’s smart, creative, funny, and her recipe reviews are always spot on.  Last month she celebrated her one year blogiversary and as part of the festivities she gave away a pair of vintage one pound loaf pans.  [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Brownie buttons

In western New York, where I grew up, it wasn’t easy to get out of bed in the wintertime.  To keep our heating bills down, my dad all but turned off the heat in the house overnight.  And no matter how full we stuffed the wood stove before bed, it wouldn’t last until morning.
When my [...]

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Lemony rice-parsley salad

My mom was flipping through an old issue of Food & Wine magazine (September 2007) when she discovered this rice salad recipe.  It calls for Arborio rice, but instead of preparing it as you would for risotto, with the endless stirring and ladeling, the rice is boiled like pasta. Simple.
Studded with olives, sweet cherry [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie: Banana bundt cake with lemon glaze

“What can I bring?”  Such a simple question, but so fraught for us “high executive functioning”  (read: perfectionist and/or controlling) types.  What we bring to someone’s dinner party or backyard barbecue or children’s birthday celebration reflects a personal philosophy, whether we intend it to or not.
The Hickory Farms cheese ball vs. local goat cheese with [...]

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