Even though my loving father died shortly past my tenth birthday, and that Dad was barely home – working tirelessly at his bakeries – in spite of this–his smiles and baking endeavors have resonate in me for decades. All aspects of baking flash before me, daily; they hound me to bake something, anything. I love…
Tag: chocolate
Glazed Lemon Pound Cake – a sweet dessert with pucker power
At the beginning of my fora into cooking and baking, which started fifty years ago, I never thought of using real lemons. Unknowingly I bought those plastic bright-yellow lemon containers. Naturally there was lemon juice in them, but who knows what else? It took me many years to discover fresh lemons, and their many benefits…
Rugelach : A Classic, Flaky Dessert Filled with Nuts, Cinnamon and Sugar
I never saw my mother or father cook or bake in the kitchen, ever. Lucky for them, (and us too) my parents were affluent and hired a housekeeper/maid to do all of our cooking. And too, since my father was a baker and owned six bakeries, that enabled us (my three younger siblings and…
Stud of A Cookie: Chewy Chocolate-chip Coconut Oatmeal
Cookies give me pause, but not for long! In an instant they disappear, as I chew them, devour them, not leaving a crumb. Yes, that’s how I deal with cookies. This is especially true when chocolate is one of the main ingredients. When knobby dark-colored studs peek out from a cookie, I gobble them…
A Tub of Dark Chocolate Zucchini Bread topped with Cream Cheese-Yogurt Frosting
Toward the end of summer I’m thrilled when my vegetable garden presents a cornucopia of several vegetables; my favorite for decades has been zucchini, the green variety. I catch them at their peak, about six to eight inches. However, larger ones work well in stews and casseroles, or stuffed with chopped veggies, cheese and ground…
Double chocolate brownie–honey sweetened
Since childhood, I’ve loved chocolate, nearly every form, from Hershey’s milk chocolate bars,(with or without nuts) to thickly iced cupcakes, to brownies and layer cakes. The brownies I first encountered happened when I visited my father,Irving, a baker, at one of his six bakeries in Newark, New Jersey. Baking was his business for several decades…
