"It's all about the recipe!"
Soak dried cherries in port, then add them to the batter of these brownies for a tasty departure from the every-day, kid-favorite brownie! I love the unexpected flavor zing from the dried cherries 🙂 This is a cake-like brownie, usually…
This cookie tastes much, much better than it looks. It also tastes much, much better than it’s list of ingredients. Take a bite; trust me!  There’s a layer of peanut butter inside!  As one of my friends said, one who shall…
Chocolate Covered Strawberries are not just for Valentine’s Day! They are so quick and easy to make that they could be your go-to potluck dessert dish 🙂 Most people like them, and their eyes light up when they see them…
All the stars! My favorite cake! I ask for it every year on my birthday 🙂 Rich and moist chocolate cake, a mocha-chocolate filling, and a latte frosting.  The recipe for this cake is by Ina Garten which was featured…
This is the cake I wanted for my birthday this year and it’s what a friend requested for her birthday a few months ago. It’s a fabulous trifecta of chocolate: semi sweet chocolate in a brownie-like cake on the bottom,…
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! Valentine’s Day is only two weeks away, so here’s a fabulous dessert suggestion 🙂 Start collecting fondue pots, dippers, and toppers now so you don’t get stressed out at the last minute! I wish I knew how…
Bon Appétit used to be my favorite food magazine, but it’s defunct now, sigh. But it lives on in all the recipes I’ve made, loved, saved, and reposted! Here’s one of my favorites 🙂 This recipe is for a very…
Weekend Cake!  Isn’t that a delightful subcategory of dessert? According to Dorrie Greenspan it’s a French concept. Weekend Cake is good for anything from breakfast through late night snacking. Weekend Cake travels well, too, and is long lasting—best if left…
This recipe is almost the same recipe as Muddy Buddies, but using popcorn instead of Rice Chex! It’s a cinch to pull together, and it’s melt-in-your mouth delicious 🙂 I mean, seriously addictive. I am pretty sure you have all…
Time to huddle in front of the fire with a good book, a quilt, and a cup of grown up hot chocolate, Chai Hot Chocolate. I think you’ll like this; it’s familiar but different, and it’s lighter than regular hot chocolate.…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day—French Hot Chocolate! This is soooo good, made with real cream and real chocolate, and bearing no resemblance at all to that powdery mix in a paper packet. The serving ritual makes this really special.…
For years I had forgotten about Rice Krispie Treats, thinking of them as kid stuff, when a neighbor brought a batch to a block party—I went wild! Rice Krispie Treats are officially one of my danger foods now—don’t leave me…
I wish I’d had this recipe decades ago! I had three small kids, and I had to take a lot of food to a lot of potlucks, meetings, classes, games, gatherings and parties 🙂 I also had to pull together a…
Look what my daughter Abby made for us for Valentine’s Day! She printed off three recipes, tried two of them and here’s the best. The cakes are easier to make than they look, and they can be mixed up a…
Here’s my recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies—it’s the only one I’ve used since 1981! I haven’t even looked at another chocolate chip cookie recipe since then 🙂 This recipe makes a straight-up chocolate chip cookie; nothing fancy, just pure goodness.…
This is my kids’ favorite, so perhaps I should call it a snack cake rather than a coffeecake. Anyway, I made one this morning, and it was gone in flash. Whatever you call it, it’s baked in a 9x9x2″ pan,…
The actual recipe includes five cookie versions, but four are much easier to make at once: make a double batch of the dough, divide it in half, then add half the quantity of ingredients for each variation to make four…
Mmmm, the flavors of Christmas! For me they are gingerbread, eggnog and peppermint 🙂 A decade or so ago, Bon Appetit magazine featured this Peppermint Bark Cookie. It’s a shortbread base that’s topped with melted chocolate, crushed candy canes, and…
This bundt cake is moist, pumpkin rich, studded with 2 cups of dried fruit and nuts, with a splash o’ rum, a hearty heap o’ cinnamon and topped with an orange-cinnamon glaze—what’s not to like?!  I’ve been making this cake…
It’s hard to explain how easy these are to make, but I might start off by saying that they are not entirely made from scratch—I use puff pastry from the freezer section of my grocery store 😀 If you can…
Run out of time? Looking for something to BBQ or grill at the very last minute that doesn’t require a lot of esoteric ingredients? Don’t want too much prep, but still want something super yummy and a bit special? I…
We love this! It does take a bit of finesse to cook the flatbread over a fire, and we are not always successful, but it’s a fun project to do while the BBQ’d meat is resting and the coals are…
For a few years, we subscribed to Raddish, a cooking program for kids. Every month we received a box with three recipes, a kitchen tool, a cooking badge, table topics, and some related educational materials. Each box had a theme:…
