Treacle Tart with Acai Sauce

Happy National Pie Day, peeps!  I made a lovely little tart--a cousin to the pie, but all part of the same family.

Below is a picture of this British treat.  I teemed it up with a bit of Brazil by using some Bazaar Acai Sauce that I got in my "Try the World" box at Christmas.  I didn't have the tradition "golden syrup" but rather used light corn syrup instead.  You can get the former from Amazon or King Arthur Flour.  Cheerio!

And although I didn't use their recipe, here's a link to a treacle tart recipe from Saveur magazine.

Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies

From Dorie Greenspan's cookbook, "Baking:  From My Home to Yours," here's a delicious example of her Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies.

A few of my co-workers had colds this past week, and in order to circumvent those germs lodging into my system, I made a huge pot of chicken soup with turmeric, ginger, chicken bone broth, etc. After being on this liquid preventative cure for brunch, lunch, and dinner, I was starving for a carb. Ha!

It was snowing and blowing outside, and I thought, molasses cookies sound perfect about now.  After an in-depth cleaning of my kitchen cabinets last weekend, I knew I had molasses in the house so it was a go.

I have Dorie's cookbook (I even met and talked to her at a book signing!), but rather than write it out here, I wanted to link to her website.  Unfortunately, because the recipe is old, it doesn't appear that it's included on the site.  Instead, here's a link to epicurious.com which does.  Enjoy the warming, winter spices of these delicious cookies!

Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies

Molten Ginger Curd Brownies

The recipe called for 3 eggs, and I had 2 extra-large ones.  I went to use applesauce for the third, but instead spotted some ginger curd.  I thought that was gelatinous like an egg, and surely 2 x-large eggs made up 2 1/2 large eggs, correct?  Anyway, I added a generous 1 1/2 T. of ginger curd, creating a new recipe.  It had just a slight amount of zing to make them interesting.  I'm glad I was short an egg!

Happy New Year 2016 Chunky Minestrone

Happy New Year, everyone!  Here's a little chunky minestrone to warm you up on this cold January 1st.  I actually made it yesterday afternoon, because as is true of most things with tomatoes, it tastes even better the next day.  I didn't make Hoppin' John as I usually do on the 1/1, but here's a piece of my artwork from last year that will show you how to do it!  Make your own luck for the new year. (-:

Chunky Minestrone with Parmegiano Reggiano

Get Lucky with Hoppin' John