Baking
Kolache
Episode 11 Hilah’s Texas Kitchen: Kolache! (I know everyone says “kolaches” but I think it’s really “kolache” in the plural and just “kolach” in the singular? And I am a stickler for grammar, although I say “kolaches” all the time. Do you know the truth? Let me know!) At any rate, if you’ve never driven…
Read MoreCherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are HUGE. I mean, seriously. Okay, not as huge as a cookie cake, but that’s like a whole ‘nother thing. That you get at the mall. That’s covered in icing and probably they misspelled your name. In fact, cookie cakes SUCK compared to these giant cherry chocolate chip cookies. These cookies are perfect.
Read MoreSoft Pretzel Recipe
Episode 7 Hilah’s Texas Kitchen: German soft pretzels! You might not think of soft pretzels when you think of Texas, and that’s okay. Soft pretzels have made their way through the whole of the US by now, as ubiquitous and American as bagels and baguettes. You might not think of Germans when you think of…
Read MoreZucchini Bread Recipe
Zucchini bread is a great way to use all the extra zucchini you got from your neighbor, your CSA, or farmer’s market. It’s also a great way to use the enormous, kinda-tough zucchini that show up in your garden at the end of the season after hiding out behind the tomato plants all summer secretly…
Read MoreFruit Tart
Fruit Tart Recipe video – scroll down for printable recipe Lest ye think I just make whatever food I want to without regard for your feelings, I made this fruit tart in response to a viewer request for a “Summer Berry Tart with Pastry Cream”. Partly because it sounded like a delicious idea that everyone…
Read MoreCorn Tortilla Recipe
Making corn tortillas in many ways is easier than homemade flour tortillas. The traditional corn tortilla recipe is only three ingredients: masa harina, salt, and water. Masa harina is a dry flour made from masa, which is a dough made from dried corn that’s been treated with a strong alkalizing compound (usually lime — calcium…
Read MoreGrandma’s Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread Muffins Recipe video (Scroll down for recipe) Grandma used to pick me and little brother up from school every day for years — all through elementary school. (Actually, Grandma also used to drop us off at school lots of mornings, too. She drove one of those cars that’s really long and solid with lots…
Read MoreCarrot Cake Recipe
Carrot cake is one of those wholesome desserts that reminds me of farmers’ wives and sweaty milkmaids and healthy brown-skinned farmboys. The sight of a big round carrot cake takes my mind’s eye to the bright kitchen of a big white house in the middle of a sorghum field with a blue sky out the…
Read MoreApple Gingerbread Pancakes
I modified this from my grandma’s gingerbread muffin recipe. The most awesome part is that they taste exactly like gingerbread muffins, but they cook a whole lot faster. And, to me, while muffins are awesome and rad, they don’t really say “breakfast”; they say more like, “tea time” or “stoner munchie time”, know what I…
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