Midnight Snack

Food blogs. I’m addicted. Is anyone else guilty of drooling over photographs of crunchy, gooey, yummy-looking food, bookmarking a recipe and then forgetting about it?

Because I am, all the time.

Slowly, slowly, I’m trying to actually break out some of the delicious recipes my favorite food bloggers suggest. And since my preferred activity in the kitchen is baking, realistically that probably means a lot of cookies, pies and cakes. Here are a few I’ve earmarked to make sometime this year (I give myself a broad deadline because… I don’t really handle deadlines).

Goal recipe number 1: Peanut Butter muffins. As seen in the chocolate peanut butter gallery.

That’s right. Muffins. Not cupcakes. Peanut butter muffins. Now, I know that cupcakes are trendy. And cute. But I’m not really a cupcake lover. They’re fine. If someone hands me a cupcake, I will thank them and enjoy it. But they don’t hold me in their spell. Muffins are another story. And peanut butter? Well, let’s just say that’s the main reason I love this blog.

While the muffins haven’t been sitting in my recipe folder for very long, this recipe for leek and potato soup from Clotilde Dusoulier’s Chocolate and Zucchini blog has been waiting a few YEARS for me to make it. Which is silly, because it’s one of the easier recipes I have bookmarked.

I have scads of Clotilde’s recipes in my recipe folder. Most of them intimidate me in some way, some of them are very simple. They all make me want to move to Paris and be her best friend. As if I needed another reason to move to Paris.

Here’s another one that’s been gathering dust. Pear pie with Gruyère crust from The Kitchn blog.

Pushing Daisies was one of my favorite shows, and pie is one of my favorite foods to make (and eat). Plus, pears in pie? I’ve never tried it and I’m so curious. Plus I’ve heard a lot about apple pies with cheddar crusts (and have several bookmarked to try) and I have a feeling once I try cheese in the crust I’ll never want to make a normal pie crust again.

This week I made a wonderful clafoutis with black plums as presented by Molly of Orangette. I cannot recommend it more. I’ve been gobbling down a slice and then going back for another sliver until my poor belly can’t possibly take any more.

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