Recipe: Natalie’s Brownies “muffins”

INGREDIENTS Dry Ingredients: 1 cup sugar ¼ cup flour 1 cup Trader Joe’s chopped dry toasted  pecans (or walnuts pieces) Pinch of salt ½ cup cocoa ½ cup butter (1 stick) 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla PREPARATION Preheat oven to 325°F. butter/Line with parchment paper a 12 muffin tin. Measure into a medium bowl sugar,… Continue reading Recipe: Natalie’s Brownies “muffins”

Recipe: Lily’s Homemade Granola

This is my version of a recipe I got from Dr. Julia Nordgren. Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats ½ c Unsalted Dry Toasted Pecan pieces (Trader Joe’s) ½ c Unsalted Dry Toasted sliced  almonds (Trader Joe’s) ½ c Unsweetened coconut chips (Trader Joe’s) [optional] ½ c Dried berry medley (Trader Joe’s) [optional] 3 tbsp maple syrup 1 tbsp… Continue reading Recipe: Lily’s Homemade Granola

Personal Goat Cheese & Herbs Quiches

This recipe makes 24 personal quiches Dough Ingredients 1½ cups all purpose flour ¾ cup cold butter cut into small pieces ¼ cup “fancy” shredded hard cheese (Mexican blend) ¼ cup shaved parmesan cheese 3 tbsp cold water Quiche Ingredients 1 medium onion cut to small bits ½ tbsp canola oil 2 tbsp salted butter… Continue reading Personal Goat Cheese & Herbs Quiches

Recipe: Cinnamon Swirl Pound Cake

* 9” round cake (3 layers + sprinkle) Cake: 1½ cups all purpose flour ¼ tsp salt 1½ cups sugar ½ cup butter (softened) 4 eggs 1½ tsp vanilla extract ½ tsp almond extract ½ cup heavy whipping cream ¼ cup milk Cinnamon Swirl: 2/3 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 tbsp… Continue reading Recipe: Cinnamon Swirl Pound Cake

Recipe: Israeli Bakery Cheesecake

One of the challenges of trying to make food from some other country is finding the “right” ingredients. Following is the fruit of many experimentation. You must follow the baking and cooling in the oven instructions. Do not open the oven before the cake had time to cool properly. The cake will collapse/lose its height. Ingredients Crust:… Continue reading Recipe: Israeli Bakery Cheesecake