Papa a la Huancaína is one of my favorite Peruvian dishes, and as Vermont tends to lack good Peruvian cuisine, it falls to me to recreate my own versions of Peruvian dishes such as this one. Papa a la Huancaína, in its simplest form, is a potato smothered in a spicy cheese sauce. I decided…
Tag: Spice
Pumpkin Brioche
I am harking in the Fall with a decadently rich (I always inwardly cringe at the amount of butter that goes into brioche, but somehow, once it’s baked, it always seems well worth it) bread enhanced with sweet hints of pumpkin and my personal blend of pumpkin spice – freshly grated nutmeg, cinnamon, and coriander…
Mexican Chocolate Pudding
While cleaning out my cupboards, I unearthed an old can of fat-free sweetened condensed milk that was just this side of expiring. Unfortunately, I made that key lime flan last week. I primary use sweetened condensed milk for either flan or lemon meringue pie, and I thought that both desserts were too close to last…
Mock Linzer Hearts
I present you with the nut-free Linzer Cookie. These cookies do not have the crunch traditionally associated with Linzer cookies (I will have to continue working on that), but they are an aromatic, lightly spiced, jam filled, cakey cookie in the iconic Linzer shape. I have adapted the recipe from Maida Heatter’s recipe for Swedish…
The Ephemeral Bee 