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Taste of Late Summer: Blueberry Crumble – Chef’s Blade

I made this one last Saturday night, but I only used 1 cup of blueberries and half the other ingredients. It was absolutely wonderful! Just wish I had some vanilla ice cream to go with!!

Ingredients

6 c blueberries (or any summer fruit, cut finely)
¾ c flour plus 1 tbsp
½ c packed brown sugar
¼ c [...]

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Chocolate Mint Cookies Recipe

Here’s an old recipe, I don’t even know where I got it. I found it in my little recipe box handwritten on a slip of paper. I’ve never even tried it till today, but the cookies did turn out fantastic!!

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 [...]

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Pancakes!! An emergency recipe!

This morning we got up and had a sudden urge for pancakes! Well, we didn’t have our usual mix in the cupboard (Hodgson Mills Organic BTW) so I had to come up with a recipe. Trying to rack my memory (always a dubious exercise) I found a little slip of paper in my recipe box with this one on [...]

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Chicken Mushroom Pasta Recipe

This is a very interesting recipe from my grandmother which is much better than using the canned mushroom soup as a base. My preference runs to subtracting the salt which even with the 1/2 tsp here, has lots less sodium than the canned soup variety. I usually use just a pinch of salt just to [...]

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Watermelon Non-Wheat Flour Mini-Cakes – Shizuoka Gourmet

WOW!! A recipe dedicated to me!! I’m definitely honored! The look very easy to make and with the watermelon inside, look very yummy!!

This particular recipe is dedicated to This Cat Can Cook who amused me with his comments and has a love for Watermelon.

Now, wheat flour allergics will be glad to know that [...]

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Rhubarb Crumble Recipe – Simply Recipes

When my father was a kid growing up in Minnesota, in the summer he used to love to chew on rhubarb that grew like a weed around there, RAW. That’s right. Raw. (The stalks, not the leaves which are poisonous.) Have you ever tried biting into a piece of raw rhubarb stalk? I [...]

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Flourless Honey Almond Cake Recipe

Honey and almonds flavor this simple (and gluten-free) cake. It’s lovely for afternoon tea or a spring holiday dessert. [...]

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Gnocchi – We Are Never Full

Look folks, I don’t even know what gnocci is, never had it, so this blog being about what I’ve never had and may be good.. It’s here.. Making them from scratch!

The second course was gnocchi with a combination of two Lidia Bastianich sauce recipes – one with breadcrumbs fried in butter, and the other with [...]

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Blackberry Pie Bars | Joy the Baker

This recipe looks like a very nice one involving blackberries! Blackberries do have some health improving qualities, so maybe a little raw sugar and whole wheat flour foe me!

Think of these bars as your escape from the land of pie baking. Maybe you don’t need an escape, but let’s be honest… putting together a [...]

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Frosted Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe

A layer cake is a very popular “special occasion” dessert. Strawberries and cream cheese I prefer to use more cream cheese over the top then put the strawberries sliced over the frosting. In between layers, I prefer the diced [...]

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