old-school dinner rolls – smitten kitchen

This is half-batch of the original recipe in Lomas’s book, which doubles everything and bakes the (approximately 35) rolls in a half-sheet pan. Because I’m a restless recipe-tinkerer, I made a few other tweaks: Hand-shaping the rolls (vs. using a 2.5-inch cookie cutter and re-rolling scraps) and I start the …

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big apple crumb cake – smitten kitchen

Cakes with fresh chunks of fruit taste good on the first day and fantastic on the second day, when everything has a chance to settle. In this case, the topping adheres better on the second day. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make it as soon as possible, just that it …

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deviled eggs – smitten kitchen

I will never find it again [please send me a link if see the original], but a few weeks ago a TikTok* went through my feed in which a woman is invited to eat half a dozen eggs and she says “Oh no, that’s too much.” “But what if I …

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frozen strawberry daiquiris – smitten kitchen

Note: Of course this will be wonderful with strawberries you picked and froze yourself, but I made a point to test it with freezer-section strawberries to make sure we still liked the results — and we did! I did find that flavor, color, and juicing ranged a lot between bags, …

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