Isn't it amazing how just one little alteration to a recipe can significantly change the result? Take, for example, the omnipresent Chocolate Chip Cookie. Pretty basic cookie, right? They're probably the most popular cookie in the world (although, after their 100th anniversary, the Oreo manufacturers would argue otherwise). But, did you know chocolate chip cookies actually started out as a mistake? Apparently, Ruth Graves Wakefield was trying to make her signature Butter Drop Do cookies. The recipe specified baker’s chocolate, but one … [Read more...]
Mom’s Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding
March 26, 2012 By 45 Comments
This is my second month participating in the Secret Recipe Club and I'm having such a blast. What an awesome opportunity for me to gain exposure to other food blogs, their authors, and the plethora of recipes specific to each site. Reveal day is exciting. Today I finally get to showcase the secret recipe I've chosen to cook from my March food blog assignment: Comfy Cusine. With any blog, I like to acquaint myself with the author. I was so thrilled to learn that Patti's blog, Comfy Cuisine, features recipes that have been taken from her … [Read more...]
Hot Milk Sponge Cake w/ Broiled Coconut Topping
March 16, 2012 By 11 Comments
Who doesn't love a good sponge cake? It's light and bouncy and goes well with any topping - fruits, sauces, sugars. Before today, I only associated sponge cakes with the holiday of Passover-because yeast is not used as the leavening agent, sponge cakes are one of the only cakes "allowed" to be baked and eaten. Yesterday morning I literally stumbled upon a sponge cake recipe of Mom's: Hot Milk Sponge Cake (not to be confused with her generational Passover Sponge Cake that requires the addition of matzoh meal and the deletion of milk). I … [Read more...]
Raw Chocolate Pudding
March 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
The type of pudding I remember eating as a child came directly from those square plastic containers that probably sat on the shelves of the supermarket for weeks. This same pudding was endorsed ad nauseum in the 1980's by Bill Cosby in those iconic commercial's where he's featured licking the chocolate Jello "puddin'" off his spoon while surrounded by dozens of salivating kids. It's probably safe to say every brown bag school lunch packed by Mom contained a jello pudding accompaniment for dessert. My go to chocolate pudding as a kid....and a … [Read more...]
