I find that the most complicated part of making a quiche is the pie crust, but once you’ve got that squared away, it’s only a matter of throwing your favorite ingredients into the pie shell with a couple of eggs and some milk or cream. Easy Peasy. We also have WONDERFUL neighbors that keep us…
Tag: Baking
Vanilla Pound Cake
I have heard that the old rule of thumb behind pound cake is that you combine together four simple ingredients; a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs, and a pound of butter. Just that simple, right? In all my years of baking pound cake, and the countless recipes that I’ve…
Humintas
I’m racking my brain for the best way to describe a huminta, and all that I can come up with is the Bolivian version of a tamale, but that seems like a tragically inefficient way of categorizing these wonderful cheesy pastry. This Bolivian speciality consists of a sweet corn dough, stuffed with a salty white…
Green Salt Focaccia
I have been an awful blogger lately, I hit my all-time low (or at least I hope so) last month with one measly post, and last week I didn’t even have the excuse of being busy with work. I spent my warm summer beach days lazily drifting along the ocean currents, soaking up the sun,…
The Ephemeral Bee 