I love, love, love October and November. The colors, the weather, the holidays….the food. One of my favorite Fall side dishes is roasted veggies–particularly roasted carrots. (Don’t stem them or boil them, please.) Next time you are in the produce section, look for a bag of Rainbow Carrots. I used to find them all the […]
Nie Nie Silhouette Cookies
I just saw these stunning sugar cookies made by Melissa at The Good Apple. I found them via CJane (a daily read) and you have to check them out! The cookies will be sold at the Mindy Gledhill concert to benefit Stephanie and Christian Nielsen.
Pumpkin Muffins with Pecan Streusel
This recipe is a keeper. We’ve made it literally dozens and dozens of times. These Pumpkin Muffins with Pecan Streusel are simple the best pumpkin muffins ever. The recipe comes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home To Yours, which is one of my favorite cookbooks. Every time I pull a batch of these out of […]
Lenox Almond Biscotti
I usually turn up my nose at biscotti. It’s never been my favorite cookie. But as I was looking at the recipe for Lenox Almond Biscotti, I thought of the sliced almonds and almond extract. I like those. And then I thought about dried apricots. I like those, too. Together they were going to change […]
French Yogurt Cake with Orange Marmalade
My father-in-law just had a birthday. I threw together a little dinner for him and of course, there was cake. Knowing he has similar tastes to my husband, I decided to make something with orange marmalade. I altered a recipe in Baking: From My Home To Yours by Dorie Greenspan and it turned out pretty […]
Kitchen Q&A: Cheese Course
picture: Four Easy Cheese Appetizer Ideas Kiasa wrote to me yesterday asking about creating a cheese course. (I immediately started salivating…and thinking.) Last night my husband (and muse) and I sat down to discuss fromage. What would we put on our cheese plate? We came up with a few things to keep in mind when […]
Caramel Peanut-Topped Brownie Cake
My mom and sisters came to lunch yesterday and for dessert we cut into this sticky, gooey confection called Caramel Peanut-Topped Brownie Cake. It’s safe to say that all of us came away with a belly ache. Caramel+Peanuts+Brownie Cake=Too Rich Oh, and we ate it with whipped cream and a glass of milk to boot. […]
The Best Lentil Soup
Lentil soup sometimes gets a bad wrap. Bad lentil soup can be really bad. And it’s very hard to find a good one. I have made good batches in the past. This recipe was adapted from my trusty The Joy of Cooking. I’ve been making this recipe for months now and it’s the best I’ve […]
Roasted Plum-Cardamom Ice Cream
For about five years, we lived in a little house with a plum tree in the front yard. Every other year there was a bounteous harvest of tiny, juicy plums near the end of August. We would pick as many plums as we could. I made jam, smoothies, cakes, and pies. One day I decided to […]
Dimply Plum Cake
In my front yard, off to the side, there is a lovely little plum tree. Where our house stands now, there used to be an orchard. Our landlady lives behind us in a new house and we live in the older house that she grew up in. The yard was filled with fruit trees. Only […]
