TWD: Baking With Julia: Croissants

From Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking With Julia, comes this recipe for that famous French pastry – croissants, even though France is not where croissants originated.  This week’s recipe is actually two recipes.  First, the making of croissant dough.  Second, turning that dough into croissants.  The contributing baker for this recipe is Esther McManus.  Here is … Read more

Healthified Baked Oatmeal

At the beginning of the year I told you I would be bringing you some healthified recipes this year.  A healthified recipe is simply created by either subtracting or substituting ingredients to create healthier versions of the recipes we love!  The first I got ready to make baked oatmeal this year I healthified it by … Read more

Overnight Baked French Toast

My Christmas dishes certainly give away the fact this overnight french toast was our treat on Christmas morning!  But I sure hope you won’t wait until next Christmas to put this baked french toast on your breakfast table.  I know we are going to have it again … and maybe even soon!  I found the … Read more

Aromatic Fruit Compote

At a holiday luncheon my sous-chef dish-washing mom and I were served a warm fruit compote alongside a delicious egg strata.  Mom is absolutely crazy about fruit in about any form.  Me, not so much. As a matter of fact I usually loathe anything that even resembles cherry.  However, in the interest of politeness I … Read more