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Donna Bell's Bake Shop: Recipes and Stories of Family, Friends, and Food
Darren Greenblatt, Pauley Perrette, Matthew Sandusky
4.04 AVERAGE
7 reviews for:
Donna Bell's Bake Shop: Recipes and Stories of Family, Friends, and Food
Darren Greenblatt, Pauley Perrette, Matthew Sandusky
4.04 AVERAGE
Completely enjoyed the stories and history about each of the owners and how their friendship and love of southern cooking and Pauley' s mom Donna Bell. The recipes are fun, tasty and easy to make. Great cookbook for any skill level and tasty recipes.
This was more of a hybrid cookbook and memoir than a straight-up cookbook. There were some lovely recipes for baked goods in here, but really, this is about helping a beloved mother's memory live on. It's also a testament to how friends can become your family. Well done.
Hell's Kitchen is home to Donna Bell's Bake Shop with its Southern style baking. For Mother's Day I received the new cook book Donna Bell's Bake Shop: Recipes and Stories of Family, Friends and Food. The recipes, each with a photo, will bring on a bad case of sugar craving and an itching to get into the kitchen. (Or a sudden desire to visit New York City.)
The bake shop was started and is owned by friends Pauley Perrette, Darren Greenblatt, and Matthew Sandusky. The store name honors Pauley's mother Donna. "Cooking and baking down South were a part of every day and every experience," Pauley writes.
Essays by the three friends are interspersed between the recipes. We learn about Pauley's family, her career, and the friends she made along the way.
Darren Greenblatt grew up in Philadelphia and was designing jewelry when he meet Pauley in New York City. "I felt like I had found my long lost sister," he writes. Meeting Donna and helped her in her kitchen; he became obsessed with Southern cooking. Matthew Sandusky came from Pittsbugh and meet Pauley in LA where she was breaking into acting. Each of the friends sacrificed something to make the bake shop become a reality. It is a labor of love.
Pauley Perrette is one of the most recognized and beloved media figures in America. She plays Abby Sciuto in the television show NCIS. I first watched NCIS when my dad was in the hospital during his last months and I was staying across state to be with Dad. At the end of the day my brother and I would go back to Dad's house and chill out watching NCIS reruns. After dad's passing I returned home and introduced my husband to the show.
Recipes include biscuits, muffins and scones, quick breads, bread pudding, bar cookies, cookies and cakes. Some that I can't wait to try include:
Hummingbird Bread Pudding with Cream Cheese Glaze made with crushed pineapple and coconut
Champagne Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting, yes it uses champagne
Cranberry White Chocolate Rise Krispies Treats; this is not your kiddie's cookie
Strawberry Scones with Lemon Glaze, yum!
The book from Simon and Schuster can be found in hard cover at your local bookstore or online shop.
The bake shop was started and is owned by friends Pauley Perrette, Darren Greenblatt, and Matthew Sandusky. The store name honors Pauley's mother Donna. "Cooking and baking down South were a part of every day and every experience," Pauley writes.
Essays by the three friends are interspersed between the recipes. We learn about Pauley's family, her career, and the friends she made along the way.
Darren Greenblatt grew up in Philadelphia and was designing jewelry when he meet Pauley in New York City. "I felt like I had found my long lost sister," he writes. Meeting Donna and helped her in her kitchen; he became obsessed with Southern cooking. Matthew Sandusky came from Pittsbugh and meet Pauley in LA where she was breaking into acting. Each of the friends sacrificed something to make the bake shop become a reality. It is a labor of love.
Pauley Perrette is one of the most recognized and beloved media figures in America. She plays Abby Sciuto in the television show NCIS. I first watched NCIS when my dad was in the hospital during his last months and I was staying across state to be with Dad. At the end of the day my brother and I would go back to Dad's house and chill out watching NCIS reruns. After dad's passing I returned home and introduced my husband to the show.
Recipes include biscuits, muffins and scones, quick breads, bread pudding, bar cookies, cookies and cakes. Some that I can't wait to try include:
Hummingbird Bread Pudding with Cream Cheese Glaze made with crushed pineapple and coconut
Champagne Cake with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting, yes it uses champagne
Cranberry White Chocolate Rise Krispies Treats; this is not your kiddie's cookie
Strawberry Scones with Lemon Glaze, yum!
The book from Simon and Schuster can be found in hard cover at your local bookstore or online shop.
Not just a lovely cookbook but a wonderful story about three friends and the impact of Donna Bell on the people in her life. It is touching to read how it all came to be and how the spirit of Donna Bell lives on in a littlle bakeshop
Borrowed from library. Skimmed it. Great stories from the 3 friends. Recipes are all pretty simple instructions with ingredients that are readily available and pictures of most bakes. Nothing I felt like I absolutely must own.
I've never had a cookbook make me cry before! A beautiful book, I can't wait to try out some of the recipes!
There was a whole lot of writing for a cookbook. Honestly, it was too much. The stories were sweet and it was nice to see how they all met and hear about Pauley's mother, Donna Bell. But it just seemed like too much was said about everything except the baking. It could have easily been condensed to a few paragraphs. I haven't seen Pauley's acting or modeling or anything else she did. I really only got this book for the recipes. The recipes all sound really delicious. I have a few marked off that I plan on trying at some point. Based on the recipes, I would have rated this book 4 or maybe even 5 stars. But there was just way too much writing about the authors.