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Feb 26
2 min

Use Your Discard to Make Sourdough Orange-Cinnamon Ripple Bread--No Baking Powder Needed

If you have a cup of discard, you have the base for a tasty, simple Sourdough Orange-Cinnamon Ripple Bread. It's similar to a cinnamon quick bread but full of yeasty taste and more like a slightly sweet bread than a cake. The ripple bread is easy to mix up in the morning and mostly forget about until afternoon/evening when it should be ready to go in the oven--no kneading required. Grated orange zest gives the bread extra tang, and cinnamon, sugar, and ground walnuts make

Feb 21
2 min

How to Make Orange-Walnut Refrigerator Cookies With a Moderate Amount of Butter

Many cooks argue that butter is the ONLY way to go when making cookies and other baked goods. How many TV chefs have you seen adding stick after stick of butter to their creations? Of course, few of those TV chefs are what I would describe as lean. I know some of the research released during the past couple of years indicates that butter isn't as bad for our health as we once thought. Nonetheless, the research scientists who say butter is "okay" generally add the caveat "

Aug 3, 2021
2 min

How to Make Orange Rosemary Cornmeal Cookies

Oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies are great. Kids and adults love them. Nonetheless, sometimes you want something a little different. Different, though, doesn't mean weird-tasting or made with hard-to-find, expensive ingredients. Hence these Orange Rosemary Cornmeal Cookies. They're a little out of the ordinary, easy to do, economical, and quite good. The cookies are slightly sweet with a nubby texture from the cornmeal. The orange and rosemary combination is unusual in

Mar 20, 2021
2 min

Need Cookies? Make Orange Rosemary Cornmeal Cookies

Sep 6, 2019
2 min

Quick, Cheap Dinner: Rosemary-Orange Chicken

This seems like a fussy dish to prepare but it's fast and easy as well as inexpensive. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts, which you can usually find on sale, are sliced thin, floured, and sauteed briefly. Then they're nestled in a quick-cooking sauce that's flavored with fresh rosemary and orange juice and zest. The sum of the parts is an incredible tasting dish that can be pulled off in less than half an hour and that's company-worthy. Really. This is a dish you'd love

Mar 28, 2019
2 min

Air Fryer Homemade Orange-Raspberry Cupcakes

Yes, boxed cake mixes are easy and yield pretty good cupcakes. They also make 24 of the things, which is too many unless you plan on inviting the neighborhood or doing penance at the gym. What if you want a dozen or fewer cupcakes and don't want to heat up your big oven? Use the air fryer. The cupcakes will turn out well, and you'll have fewer around to tempt you. And this particular recipe will tempt you--a lot. The cupcakes are quick to mix up and bake in about 15 min

Feb 18, 2019
2 min

Cheap and Good Supper: Orange-Cumin Pork Chops

How about a simple, inexpensive dish you can start in the morning, that's good enough for company, and that cooks in fewer than 30 minutes? Orange-Cumin Pork Chops marinate in the refrigerator while you work or play, brown quickly on the stove when you're ready, and then bake for about 10 minutes in the oven atop a wild rice blend. The chops are juicy, mildly spiced with warm, earthy cumin, and get a bit of zing from orange zest. Garlic and fennel seed led a little flair t

Feb 8, 2019
2 min

Weekend Cookies: Cranberry-Orange-Ginger Buttons

Need a treat for the weekend? Try Cranberry-Orange-Ginger Button cookies. They're easy, not-too-sweet, and flavored with tangy cranberries, orange zest, and a little crystallized ginger. The dough should be refrigerated before you bake it, so preparing it tonight is ideal, if you want to bake the cookies this weekend. Mixing up the dough will take you only a few minutes, and you can speed up the process considerably if you chop/grind the cranberries and crystallized ginge

Aug 3, 2018
2 min

One-Sheet Pan Cookies: Orange-Almond Biscotti

Sheet pan cooking seems to be all the rage now, but seldom do I see recipes for sheet pan desserts. Now you've got one. Biscotti to the rescue. Yes, biscotti. They're easy, economical to make at home, and you can bake them on one cookie sheet or sheet pan for minimal fuss and cleanup. The recipe I'm offering today is for Orange-Almond Biscotti. The cookies are crispy but not tooth shattering. I like them because they're sweet but only a little. Instead of just sugar,

Jun 23, 2018
2 min

Sourdough Orange-Cinnamon Ripple Bread

I had to feed my starter again and was determined to make something a little different. Sourdough Orange-Cinnamon Ripple Bread is the result. It's similar to a cinnamon quick bread but full of yeasty taste and more like a slightly sweet bread than a cake. The ripple bread is easy to mix up in the morning and forget until the evening when it should be ready to go in the oven--no kneading required. Orange zest gives the bread extra tang, and cinnamon, sugar, and ground waln

Dec 23, 2017
2 min

Carrot-Ginger-Orange Soup: Special Start for Your Feast

Tired of the same old soups you've made for years? Just looking for something special? Try carrot-ginger-orange soup. It's made with ingredients that are readily available, economical, and nutritious. The soup takes humble carrots and turns them into something that will make your family and guests sit up and go "ummm." Really. I tried a variation of the soup while on vacation, expecting the soup to be tasteless and weird. Instead, it was smooth, creamy, and subtly spic

Dec 6, 2017
2 min

Orange-Cumin Pork Chops: Quick Week Night Dinner

How about a simple dish you can start in the morning, that's good enough for company, and that cooks in fewer than 30 minutes? Orange-Cumin Pork Chops brown quickly on the stove and then bake for about 10 minutes in the oven atop a wild rice blend. The chops are juicy, mildly spiced with warm, earthy cumin, and get a bit of zing from orange zest. Garlic and fennel seed led a little flair to the chops. After browning the chops and arranging them on the rice, be sure to add

Nov 21, 2017
2 min

Cranberry-Orange Relish with Crystallized Ginger

This make-ahead cranberry relish takes only a few minutes to prepare using a blender or food processor and is fresh tasting with its mixture of cranberries and an orange. The ginger isn't critical, but it gives a nice zing to the relish, if you'd like to use it. Start with just a little ginger and add more to your taste. Almost any red fruit-flavored jello will work in the recipe, but I usually go for strawberry or cranberry, which seem to best accompany the ground orange.

Oct 14, 2017
2 min

Fast Cookies: Orange-Coconut Biscotti

Most people who cook seem to think biscotti are time-consuming to make. They aren't. Which is one reason I really like biscotti. I need only one cookie sheet to make them--which means easy cleanup. The biscotti also are one of the few cookies I can mix up, pop in the oven while I prepare the rest of my dinner--the first bake is about 30 minutes--and then finish baking while my family eats. Admittedly, I do need to turn the biscotti once during dinner, but that takes only

Sep 21, 2017
2 min

Is Everything Really Better With Butter?

Many cooks argue that butter is the ONLY way to go when making cookies and other baked goods. How many TV chefs have you seen adding stick after stick of butter to their creations? Of course, few of those TV chefs are what I would describe as lean. I know some of the research released during the past year indicates that butter isn't as bad for our health as we once thought. Nonetheless, the research scientists who say butter is okay generally add the caveat "in moderation

Sep 5, 2017
2 min

Munch, Munch, Munch, Munch, Munch

I'm a big believer in cookies, albeit cookies that are not too terribly bad for you. Hence all the biscotti recipes you'll see in this blog. My latest offering to you is a cookie that's made for munching with your after-dinner fruit, coffee, or tea. Orange-Ginger Biscotti are low in fat, not terribly sweet, and redolent of juicy oranges. A bit of crystallized ginger gives the cookies some bite, but not so much as to be overwhelming. I chop the crystallized ginger with ki

Aug 26, 2017
2 min

Some Things Are Essential For Weekends--Like Cookies

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