Peanut Butter Oreo S’mores Icebox Cake

and sourdough burger buns!

Jun 29, 2024

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We are experiencing an impressively awful and long heatwave so I have some no-bake desserts for you… but, if you do have a strong cooling system and plan to grill this weekend (or next…) something for your burgers!

new on bbs

Sourdough Burger Buns

Milk bread based and made with sourdough

mini, easy and fruit forward

Mason Jar Sorbet

Super easy single serving of homemade sorbets, use any fruit you like, blend in a food processor with a simple syrup and store it in a mason jar.

mini, easy, utterly creamy & customizable

Mason Jar Ice Cream

An infinitely adaptable recipe to make ice cream for one (or two if you are feeling generous) in a 1 pint jar. This mason jar ice cream base is simple and easy and the flavor options are limitless.

reader review

“these are genuinely the perfect texture I’ve been chasing forever, and the flavour is almost creamy in it’s sweet peanut-y goodness! I skipped the extra sugar on the outside but still did a sprinkle of salt and the flavours are still well balanced. These are definitely going to become a household staple along with the hazelnut butter cookies and half a dozen other BBS classics!” - Orlaith on Chunky Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

weekly reads & notes

“…."adaptation isn't a one-directional relationship where only Indian dishes are tweaked to accommodate American ingredients," discussing how many "Indians in America have also tweaked American foods with Indian flavors and spices to make them more palatable."
"These are the recipes that immigrant have doubled down on — the dishes that keep them connected to home and keep them whole," (she says).” "What is Indian food in America?": Khushbu Shah on the dishes of diaspora and her new cookbook, Salon.
“Around one hundred people from her neighborhood were killed in the airstrikes that night, (Marah) Satari says. Thirty-two of those were Satari’s family members, including her mother, her small sister and brother, her two uncles, and their wives and children. The family members who were spared were outside of the house at the time, purchasing bread or collecting sweets at the supermarket to bring for dinner.” Gaza Survivors’ Heart-Wrenching Exodus to Egypt, Jacobin.
‘“Before The Gay Cookbook, nobody had written much about gay domestic life, not even gay men. “Placing a homosexual, let alone a happy one, in the home, was more radical in 1965 than one might expect,” Vider writes. “Social scientists, journalists, and filmmakers of the 1950s typically depicted gay men as outsiders, if not threats, to the ideal heterosexual household.” The Gay Cookbook openly challenged this notion. “Guess what?” the book declared. “Gay men have homes! They have kitchens! They are human beings! Human beings that eat! Just! like! you!”’ ‘The Gay Cookbook’ Was of and Ahead of Its Time, Eater.
Anita of Wild Thistle Kitchen posted an utterly gorgeous black raspberry ice cream and I’m thinking: I wish I hadn’t let my fam gobble up all the black raspberries I found at the farmers market last week so I could make this!!! I also remembered the one year I saved mine from little hands and made this black raspberry cheesecake.
- During that same market visit I discovered purple raspberries; a hybrid of raspberries and black raspberries. They aren’t as tart as a red raspberry and to me tasted a bit like a plum.
- Anita also has a wineberry sorbet recipe I’ve lusted after for years. I saw wineberries once years ago at a very big farmers market (before her recipe was published) and never since =( Maybe one of you will have better luck!
These past two weeks I have been cooking from The Feel Good Foodie Cookbook. It was gifted to me and while I was pleased to receive it, I truly did not think I’d use it more than a handful of times. But now I have found so many delicious lunch meals, and they’re all quick and easy. Our favorites so far: the halloumi bruschetta, caprese grilled flatbreads, chicken shawarma, and the almond couscous pilaf (I tell you this because if you do get the book, those would be the first recipes I suggest making ;-) and also - the sumac chicken! My girls are even eating the chicken dishes (!) which is kind of wild since this is usually what mealtimes look like for us, lol).

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