Tuesdays with Dorie: Szarlotka from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Szarlotka is a kind of Polish apple pie. This website gives a nice explanation: It’s based on a buttery shortcrust, filled with spiced shredded apple, optional custard or meringue and topped with crumble or an additional layer of pastry. Baked until golden, it’s served … Read more

Brown Sugar Spice Muffins with Nectarines on a colourful plate with dots.

Cook the Book Fridays: Brown Sugar Spice Muffins from Everyday Dorie

(for those of you wondering about my absence from this site in the spring and my surgery in May, I’ve written it up here. I know my “Dorista” friends were surprised when I missed a few deadlines…)   This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Brown Sugar … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's Banana breakfast Squares on a white plate in front of a blue and white mug on a wooden table.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Banana Breakfast Squares from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Banana Breakfast Squares was a recipe I nominated to make this month because I think a good breakfast square is always welcome at the start of a new school year. These were SO good that: I didn’t get any photos except for the one … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's Giverny Tomatoes in a baking dish in a pool of olive oil.

Cook the Book Fridays: Giverny Tomatoes from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Giverny Tomatoes are slow-roasted tomatoes that were inspired by a trip to Monet’s home, Giverny. Dorie says in this NYT Magazine article: The dish is simply a tomato, peeled and roasted at a very low temperature for a few hours … Read more

Honey-Mustard Salmon Rillettes in a small glass bowl next to a stack of crackers on a blue plate on a wooden railing.

Cook the Book Fridays: Honey-Mustard Salmon Rillettes from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Honey-Mustard Salmon Rillettes wasn’t a dish I was going to eat myself but a small portion of this was perfect for a light summer appetiser for others! Rillettes are a common apéritif item in France – typically using meat (pork) … Read more

Strawberry Cheesecake- Chocolate No-Bake Trifle in a bowl on a wooden table with a silver spoon next to it.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Strawberry Cheesecake-Chocolate No-Bake TRIFLE from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Strawberry Cheesecake- Chocolate No-Bake Pie sounds like a (delicious) mouthful but alas, the pie version of this was not meant to be for me this week. I mistakenly thought DIGESTIVE biscuits would be a good substitute for the graham crackers in the crust (I am … Read more