Author: Caterina Borg, Good Food Gourmet
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Chocolate Pumpkin Butterscotch Pie: A Twist On The Traditional
For most of us, traditions offer a certain level of comfort and evoke memories of times past with family or friends that may no longer be with us. It’s like those comfy slippers that you’ve been resurrecting for the past 10 years or those blue jeans that you still have since your high school days…the…
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Pumpkin Semifreddo With Whisky Pumpkin Butter Swirls
I can just imagine what you are thinking….I bet it’s something along the lines of, “It’s 3 days to Thanksgiving and how am I possibly going to get it all done!” Well, if you don’t have time to make desserts you may be contemplating on sticking to the traditional offerings of assorted pies and other…
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The BEST Damn Coffeecake Ever
Whether your choice of hot drink is coffee, tea or hot chocolate, a huge piece of this coffeecake should always accompany each mug. With the Holidays around the corner, many of us will have family visiting from all over, and this is the perfect snack cake to serve when it’s finally time to sit down…
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Grey Goose Vodka Cranberry Lemon Cake
I really enjoy a good whiskey or vodka…not together, mind you…but as a rule, those are my go to choices in hard liquor. My favorite brand of whiskey is Jack Daniels and my choice of vodka is always Grey Goose. The combination of vodka and just about any citrus juice is a difficult combination to…
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A Holiday Hot Milk Cake
This year has simply flown by and I can’t believe that another Thanksgiving is just around the corner. When I realized that it was just a few weeks away, I started thinking about all of those tried and true traditional desserts we enjoy each Holiday…you know the pumpkin, pecan and apple pies and even those…
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Harvest Time Pumpkin-Apple Butter
Canning or preserving fruit jams or marmalades is not a process that is strictly reserved for items made with whole fruits or peels. One of the more traditional items occasionally seen today in some grocery stores but more prominently featured in many Amish markets up and down the east coast is something called pumpkin or…
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How To Make Petit Palmiers
I was 14 and my best friend Mireya was 16. She had just passed her driver’s test and became the designated driver for our huge group. She spent half of her time driving around in her red impala picking everyone up so that we could all hang out together. No more begging my father to…
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Easy Puff Pastry
In the early 1990’s, I worked for Citronelle restaurant at the luxury Latham Hotel in Baltimore. Of course, this was one of Michelle Richard’s restaurants, so all of the recipes we used were his…well, most of them were. His recipes were easy to work with for the most part, but I found that some of…
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How To Make A Paper Cone For Piping
When I was in culinary school, this was one of the first things we had to master early one, because we used hundreds of them during the course of the program. They are really easy to make and are great to use when you need to pipe out royal icing or thin chocolate décor that…