"It's all about the recipe!"
My daughter, Hannah, has started a new Thanksgiving tradition for our family, and I rather like it. She invites our neighbors and friends over for Pumpkin Pancakes on Thanksgiving morning. She suggests they come in their jammies, too! I am not seen…
I had heard about cinnamon ice cream a year or so ago and was instantly intrigued—it sounded lovely. Odd, but lovely, and I had a feeling—foodie intuition, if I may be so bold—that Cinnamon Ice Cream would be the perfect…
I hope you are going to the Farmer’s market this weekend! I was there last week, and there were lovely large bunches of fresh basil. Buy a bunch! Get some potatoes, too—Yukon Golds or white boiling potatoes would be good.…
Yesterday I went to Costco and Trader Joe’s. Both places had samples of make-it-from-a-box turkey dressing. Did they think the samples would entice people to buy that stuff? What WAS it? The texture was glue-y, the taste was, was…, sigh. There was…
My nineteen-year-old daughter whipped this up for her dinner—over high heat—in her on-campus apartment over the weekend. The firefighters came to call, in their big red truck, with the sirens blaring. She’d set off the smoke alarm—with one pork chop!…
Poached Pear Salad is ideal for any fancy meal and also be good for a light lunch when paired—peared! now there’s a joke in the making—when paired with a sandwich or quiche, baked potato or flat bread, pizza or a…
Is it a cookie? Is it a lollipop? It’s a Fun-Face Cookie-Pop! My kids loved these, both making them and eating them. We’ve been making these candy studded spice cookie pops every Fall since 1998, and unfortunately I don’t remember where I originally found the recipe. One…
As a newlywed, and married to a man who owned a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, French Onion Soup was one of the first things I learned how to make well—thank you, Julia Child—and one of the…
