Gran's Best

Heirlooms & Discoveries

Olive & Tomato & Cheese Foccacia

May 19, 2017 Gran

Also known as Birth Day Foccacia and adapted from Cook's Illustrated, May 1997, with extra help from Martha Rose Shulman in the New York Times. One afternoon in the spring of 2016, I went to the fabulous Pasta & Provisions on Providence Road in Charlotte to buy … [Read more...]

Breads, Mains, Recipes, Vegetables, Veggie Main Dishes, Yeast Breads birthday, Cook's Illustrated, Martha Rose Shulman, Pasta & Provisions

Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Frosting

October 21, 2016 Gran

After a lifetime of trying countless recipes for chocolate cake and chocolate icing, I've settled on the two recipes below. This makes the quintessential birthday cake, often requested. The cake recipe is adapted from Dr. Peggy Polaneczky's The Blog That Ate Manhattan, and came … [Read more...]

Cakes, Desserts, Recipes birthday, Margaret Polaneczky, Thanksgiving

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