My little top chef has returned to the kitchen. He has been making breakfasts and helping me with dinners. But his preference now is to bake. For MY birthday, he gave me a cookie cookbook for us to use together. Of course we are using the recipes as guides and adapting as we see fit….
Category: Cammy’s Cooking Adventures
Carrot Poppy Seed Bundt Cake
I can’t resist using my vegetables in baked goods. Our freezer is already filled with 3 different versions of zucchini (or pattypan squash) bread, so what is next? This carrot poppyseed bundt cake. My carrot harvest has been the best I have ever had. They look good, they taste good. This version of carrot cake…
Cammy’s Hide and Seek Muffins
Our “top chef” agreed to come back to the kitchen to make the Hide and Seek Muffins from Mollie Katzen’s Pretend Soup cookbook. My strawberry plants are still young, so they are producing sweet berries, just not that many. So, we used a mix of strawberries from our garden and other local strawberries. Cracking eggs may be…
Brown Sugar Pancakes
Another snow day here in Dover, no school, no work…so the top chef returned to the kitchen to make the Brown Sugar Pancakes from The Batali Brothers Cookbook. These were delicious!! But even better was seeing Cam back in the kitchen. Although he still shies away from the stove, he really enjoys doing all…
Cammy’s Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
Cam has two treats planned for Valentine’s Day – chocolate raspberry sweetheart cupcakes and candy-filled heart cookies. He started with the cupcakes… His inspiration for these came from the Sweetheart Cupcakes in “Cupcakes and More” cookbook he picked out at Disney World last year. I enjoy the fact that my son, who can typically be…
Cammy’s Halloween Spice Cookies
My self-proclaimed “Top Chef” is back; Cammy has returned to the kitchen! His first project…Halloween cookies he saw in a book. He then made his father buy the book for him, so his personal cookbook collection is now up to 3. He also likes to get story books that include a recipe related to the…
Kuku-ye Bademjun (Persian Eggplant Omelet)
I still had eggplants in my fridge from Farmer Kim. I needed to do something with them, I had held them for as long as I would ever want to. My husband wanted more Khoresh Bademjun, but we had already had it twice in 2 weeks, so I was determined to make something else. Time…
Zucchini & Okra Frittata
The okra has started producing. I am especially happy about that this year; for a while I thought I would have no okra crop. Why? Well, I planted the okra in two places in the garden and they started coming up very nicely. That was before I left on vacation in June. When I came…
Cammy’s Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cammy woke up wanting cookies. I don’t remember him ever asking for cookies, but today, that was what he wanted. Problem was, we did not have any cookies in the house, so we needed to make some. After a bit of debate (seems like everything with my 3 year old is a debate), he and…
Spider Cookies with Cam
I have mentioned before how much I like JoyofBaking.com. So when it came time to find something fun to make with Cam for Halloween, that is where I turned. I needed something he could do the decorating himself, and I found their chocolate spiders – chocolate macaroons with chocolate-covered pretzels for legs. Perfect! He could…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 