by Sherry on March 10th, 2010

Herbed Potato Window Panes

You will want to do more than window shop these windows! You get to eat these.
I have done a “One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato” blog entry where I posted three of my favorite baked potato recipes. This has to be “four”.

It was really nice here in our part of Texas today and I should have [...]

by Sherry on March 6th, 2010

Cheese Souffle Puffs

Little clouds of souffle you won’t soon forget!
This week I’m teaching a class on souffles at Williams Sonoma.  Up until about 2 years ago I had never made a souffle of any type before (I thought). I have always been afraid to attempt making something so fragile that if you breath on it it might [...]

by Sherry on February 14th, 2010

Mezze Table

The 2010 February Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid.
Mezze, tapas, muqabbilat, dim sum, hor’devoures, or simply “apps”.

What ever language you may say this word in, “mezze”, tapas, muqabbilat, dim sum, hor [...]

by Sherry on February 8th, 2010

Honey Pecan Stuffed Snow Peas

I know you may be thinking “she’s crazy for stuffing those tiny little pods”, but they are always a hit a party.
When I started catering 20 years ago it seemed like everything idea I came up with involved a lot of time and handling of food. But, I have to say, those are usually the appetizers people [...]

by Sherry on January 16th, 2010

Truffled Parmesan Frites

Frites? What’s a Frite anyway? — French fries!! Come on now, can’t she do better than that you say.
The idea for this appetizer came from our anniversary trip to NYC back in September that we took with two of our friends also celebrating their anniversary.  We did the walking tour of Greenwich Village that I [...]