Scones with attitude!  Irish Soda Bread for St. Patrick's Day, and other scones for your brunch or breakfast table!  Also, Chef Eddie has a lucious Chocolate Irish Coffee Cake with Irish Cream Cheese Frosting.

Chef Mani Niall - In the midst of research for my next cookbook, this month I’m hot on the trail of sugar’s role in both flavor and texture. read more...

Oatmeal Peanut Cremes
If there are peanut allergies in the family, try substituting almond butter. Or skip the glaze; these cookies are great either way.

Pork Tenderloin with Tequila Brown Sugar Adobo
Pork tenderloin is wonderfully quick and easy to prepare. This recipe draws on all Latin influences, from Spain to the Caribbean. Serve accordingly, with rice, beans or tortillas.

Muscovado Cheesecake with Graham Cracker Cornmeal Crust
This hails from the famous Zingerman’s  deli of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pastry manager Charlie Frank, from my childhood home of Romeo, Michigan, gave me a tour of their bakehouse. In between gobbling bites of the amazing Zang! bar he created and catching up on Romeo gossip, Charlie managed to share this recipe with me.

Entertaining with Chef Eddie
This month’s recipe started out as a recipe that my mother and grandmother made for me as a child. It is a chocolate mayonnaise cake. This is the cake I got on all of my birthdays and or special events. What you are going to get from this is how to begin with a basic recipe and re-work it to make the recipe fit your needs. more...

Recipes:
Chocolate Irish Coffee Cake
Irish Cream Cheese Frosting

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