BIZZY BAKES

I am going back to something, I used to do but dropped it for practicality.   I am going to Cook the Book.  Each week, I am going to cook a few recipes from a specified book. It failed for me, last time, because I wanted to cook the book daily and that is not possible.  I think, if I choose 2 or 3 recipes a week or more, if I choose to, this may work out.  I am blessed with many cookbooks and I want to use some of them that have been sitting on the shelf. The cookbook, I chose for this week is not one of those shelf sitters.  This book is found on my kitchen table quite often and it gets picked up and used.  I don't remember a failure from the book.  It is called Cooking Inspired by Estee Kafra.  When I first got the book, I sat down with it and by the time I got up, I knew, I was buying it for several friends and relatives.  In fact, I think it is on sale now and I should pick up a few more. One of the major joys of this book a...

Estee Kafra has become one of my favorite cookbook authors.  Every recipe, I have tried from her cookbooks has been easy to make and delicious to eat.  I came across this quiche recipe but I did not need a pie.  I was looking for minis but the recipe was so appealing, I decided to turn it into a muffin-like creation.  I removed the crust instructions and pretty much kept to the recipe. This is a new way and I think, a good one, to use salmon.   Salmon Quiche   Muffins    by Estee Kafra, Cooking with Color Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs salmon fillet (skin on) 1 small lemon Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Filling: 1/2 cup light mayonnaise 2 tablespoons almond milk or milk 3 tablespoons  Tofutti  Better Than Cream Cheese 2  tablespoons  flour 3 eggs 3  tablespoons  fresh Italian parsley, finely minced 1/4 teaspoon salt Method: Preheat oven to 350°F. Rinse salmon and pat dry. Place salmon in a shallow baking di...

I kvelled about this meatloaf in my last post.  It is also from Kosher Scoop and specifically from Estee Kafra and her new book, Cooking Inspired.  Maybe it is just me but I don't think so.  I have never tasted a meatloaf like this.  Adding the sausage (pastrami originally) was a stroke of genius and the duck sauce put a whole new spin on the recipe.  No Estee, I don't think a meatloaf is a meatloaf is a meatloaf.  I think this is far superior to the tomato sauce versions. I have made meatloaf in a variety of ways, with spinach, with hard boiled eggs, with barbecue sauce and with any other food that made sense.  None came near this.  I hope you will get a chance to make this and that you enjoy it as much as we did. As you can see, I served it with plain broccoli and parsley oven fried potatoes.  This worked perfectly. Secret Ingredient Meatloaf (adapted from Estee Shafer who calls this her New Meatloaf) Ingredients:  4 – 5...

I have stopped buying cookbooks.  I certainly have enough and as much as I enjoy reading them, there is a limit to how many I can cook from.  Temptation always rears its head when I see a new cookbook but I proudly say, I have been behaving and have not purchased a new cookbook recently and I plan to keep it this way except for.......................................... A new cookbook recently came out and I wanted it.  Each time, I came across it online, I almost bought it but thankfully, I caught myself and stopped myself.  The book is called Cooking Inspired by Estee Kafra and I worked it out, in my mind, that it was not meant to be mine. At my school, we get Chanukah presents from the parents.  Usually the class chips in and gives us money.  This year, besides those nice green bills, a few parents gave me individual gifts, one nicer than the next.  The best one turned out to be.......you guessed it......... Cooking Inspired.  That is an ...