The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.
Ice Cream
Nanette and I have been chatting up Gelato for over a good month now, this is an evil in itself. We were going to make this Turkish Coffee Gelato recipe a couple weeks ago but we decided we should wait a couple weeks after our last gelato adventure; I thought my waistline could use a …
Warm cinnamon gelato is a wonderful companion with puffy pillows of fried dough that has been sweetened with orange sugar.
Pureed boysenberries are sweetened with a verbena simple syrup and turned into a summer fresh sorbet.
Last week, I took MEM out to pick berries. Once we got to the farm, we found out there would be no berry picking, instead, we could pick peaches and apricots! While I love berries I was secretly happy as I love peaches and apricots even more. Now, what to do with buckets of …