Grandma’s Kitchen Table

        The 71st recipe I made with the  Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie  group is My Favorite Pumpkin Pie and can be found in the  Baking with Dorie  cookbook on page 272.         Ingredients: pumpkin puree, heavy cream, sour cream, eggs, brown sugar, honey, ground ginger, star anise powder (I left this out), fine sea salt, dark rum, vanilla, and whipped cream for serving.        While it seemed a bit early to be making pumpkin pie, it also seemed like a good idea to try this recipe with thoughts of taking it for Thanksgiving, perhaps it would even be our favorite pumpkin pie as well as Dorie’s favorite pumpkin pie, and it could be that this new version would supplant the older one that I’ve been making for years and years.         The ingredient list is a bit long, and very rich, which made for a delicious pumpkin pie, perfect for a holiday celebration. I followed the r...

          The 70th recipe I made with the  Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie  group is The Daily Bread: White Bread Edition and can be found in the  Baking with Dorie  cookbook on page 11.            Ingredients: butter, flour, powdered milk, sugar, salt, yeast, egg, and milk.        Homemade bread, I would say, is one of my favorites to make. Through the years I’ve made countless loaves and I always enjoy baking all kinds of bread, it is relaxing and soothing, and especially rewarding when everyone happily devours it, sometimes straight out of the oven as was the case when the boys were home growing up…homemade bread never lasted long.          This is a nice recipe, it comes together easily, and bakes well. It baked for a bit more (actually 20 minutes more in my oven) than the time specified, all ovens bake differently. The taste is rich (butter, milk, egg, suga...

      The 69th recipe I made with the  Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie  group is Double-Pear Picnic Pie and can be found in the  Baking with Dorie  cookbook on page 266.         Ingredients: Sour Cream Pie Dough (page 350), fresh pears, dried pears (I used dried apricots), candied ginger, apricot jam, sugar, lemon zest and juice, cream, and turbinado sugar.        This pie was meant to be a sort of “slab style” pie but since I bake for Mark, he thought he would rather have it just as a regular pie, so that’s how I styled it.  I made a  7” size instead of a 9x12” size as that seemed a better option with just the two of us here. For this size, I used half of all the ingredients listed and it worked out perfectly. The recipe gave various options for fruit, dried fruit, jam, etc. so one could really adapt it to whatever you have on hand or enjoy eating. The only thing I changed was using dried ...

          The first recipe I made with the Tuesdays with Dorie: Dorie’s Anytime Cakes group is Cocoa-Swirled Pumpkin Bundt and can be found in Dorie Greenspan’s newest cookbook, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. Today is the launch day for Dorie’s new cookbook and the launch day for this new group at Tuesdays with Dorie , now also baking from this book on the third Tuesday of each month.          Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Powder, Salt, Cinnamon, Chocolate Chips, Flour, Baking Soda, Ginger, Cardamom, Nutmeg, Neutral Oil, Brown Sugar, Eggs, Vanilla, Pumpkin, and Confectioner’s Sugar.          The first thing I asked myself when I saw this recipe was, “Do Pumpkin and Chocolate actually go together?’ Mark assured me that he thought they did and that I should bake on. We decided that a half recipe made in 6 cup bundt pan would be an appropriate size so I just halved the ingredients, it all fit perfectly fine, and the cake b...

          After blogging at Typepad.com for 18 1/2 years, in August the company announced that they were ceasing business and those of us having accounts would need to find another space. Originally I thought maybe I would just call it a day, end of an era. The main purpose of my blog was to participate in Tuesdays with Dorie , baking with the group since 2008, enjoying the friendships made throughout these years, dear to my heart. The group is currently baking and blogging through Dorie's book Baking with Dorie .         Coming out this fall, Dorie Greenspan has a new cookbook ( Dorie's Anytime Cakes ), and Steph, finding herself with an extra copy, in her generosity, offered it to me. Thank you ever so much, Steph. And, well... If you give a girl a book, she's going to need a blog to go with it (to paraphrase If You Give a Mouse a Cookie ). I'll be needing a blog to keep participating. Goodbye, Typepad, it was a lovely run, and I'm so...