Has a song ever inspired you to bake? While debating with myself what to bake for my next post for Girl Meets Oven, the song “Coconut” suddenly popped into my head. If you are not familiar with it, the chorus goes, “She put the lime in the coconut; she drank ’em both up.” Then I thought instead of drinking lime and coconut, why not bake with them? Lime and coconut bars could make for a tasty and fun Saint Patrick’s Day treat.
Usually I am a green beer and shamrock shake kind of gal on Saint Patrick’s Day. It wouldn’t be Saint Patrick’s Day without green food coloring in my food or drink. However, this year I am not feeling quite myself. I am making something that is actually not green for the big day. Well, it’s not green yet anyway. I’m making Irish soda bread.
I cannot tell a lie. I baked the cherry chocolate chip coffee cookies. I promise I did not chop down a cherry tree to make these cookies. I used dried tart cherries from the grocery store. However, I did steal the last cup of coffee to make them.
Is life like a box of chocolates or a bowl of cherries? It probably depends on who you ask. Forrest Gump said chocolates. Erma Bombeck may have said cherries. I like to think life is like a bowl of chocolate cherry chip cookies.
I have more rosemary than you can shake a stick at, or at least a rosemary twig. So today I am making rosemary garlic focaccia. Why do I have so much rosemary, you ask? How do you make this rosemary garlic focaccia? Let me tell you.
Roasting a chicken is easy. Roasting a chicken without filling the house with smoke is another story. A better headline for this post may be, “How to Successfully Roast a Chicken Indoors without Tripping the Alarm on the Smoke Detector.”
Just because Valentine’s Day is over doesn’t mean you have to put away the heart-shaped baking pans and cookie cutters. To keep the love alive, I’m making heart-shaped Hardee’s biscuits in this episode of Girl Meets Oven.
This Valentine’s Day, you may be conquering your fear to ask someone on a date. I am conquering my fear of making creme brulee. I love eating the stuff, but I have been a coward about making it until now. I’m facing my fear and sharing my story. My hope is it will help you conquer creme brulee too (if you haven’t already). If I can be brave enough to make it, so can you.
Ken loves those big chocolate chip cookie cakes from the Great American Cookie Company at the mall, so one year I bought a heart-shaped cookie pan to make them at home. I think I used the pan once in the several years I’ve had it. Whenever I make chocolate chip cookies, they end up being greasy and flat, and nothing like the ones at the mall. For Valentine’s Day this year, I went on a quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.
When you’ve had a bad day, sometimes you need a little chocolate. It is a really bad day when your chocolate cake blows up in your face. Don’t let it happen to you. Check out this story, and get a super rich chocolate cake recipe too.