This week’s recipe was chosen by Nancy of The Dogs Eat the Crumbs on page 197 of Dorie Greenspan’s book  Baking: From My Home to Yours. It is called a Swedish Visiting Cake.  Being married to a Swede, I automatically asked my husband what it is called in Swedish.  No clue.  No surprise there, either. [...]

I was watching Ina Garten on the FoodTV channel the other day when I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies.  Ina and her guest were making double chocolate almond cookies. It really looked delicious and watching them spoon batter on the cookie sheet made my cravings worse! I decided to try her recipe with [...]