Posted in Dessert, Holiday dishes, tagged chocolate, chocolate Easter baskets, dessert, food, projects for kids, recipes on April 7, 2012| 1 Comment »
Forget plastic green grass. Go au naturel with these delightful and easy-to-make Chocolate Easter Baskets. You will need exactly three ingredients: a bag of pretzel sticks, a bag of semi sweet chocolate chips (or your favorite chocolate), a bag of mini candy-shelled Cadbury Eggs.
Posted in Dessert, tagged chocolate, dessert, flourless chocolate cake, food, lava cakes, molten cakes, National Chocolate Cake Day, recipes on January 27, 2012| 4 Comments »
January 27 is National Chocolate Cake Day in the United States. To be honest, I thought every day was chocolate cake day. This warm (and flourless) chocolate lava cake is delicious enough to declare a national celebration. But to help keep us all focused, there are several national food day lists floating around like this one to make sure all kinds of decadent delights get their day.
Posted in Dessert, tagged dessert, granita, Italian ice, recipe on July 29, 2011| 6 Comments »
Last week we had a heat wave. Rows of 100s marched down the East Coast on the weather map. I swam outside as much as possible. And ice. I ate lots of ice.
Not ice cubes, but delicious and refreshing granita – Italian ice that you can make so easily in your own freezer. Granita is simply combining water, sugar, and fruit flavorings and then freezing it. It’s like a fancy slushy for grownups.
Posted in Dessert, Eating in season, tagged currants, dessert, eating in season, food, pie, recipes on July 18, 2011| 75 Comments »
I vote to change the spelling of July. Let’s spell it “Jewel-eye.”
“Jeweled” describes the color of the sky that was Saturday morning – deep, deep blue with tiny clouds that posed no threat to the early light. These kinds of days last just a few weeks in New England and I always walk around pinching myself a bit when I realize that, for once, the weather has been tamed into something lovely.
After a swim across Walden Pond that morning, I stopped by Allendale Farm searching for a breakfast scone. I feel incredibly fortunate to live in the heart of one of Boston’s neighborhoods and still have access to a farm stand just a few minutes from my house with its own locally grown produce.
That’s when these beauties caught my eye: pink and red currants.
The pinks glowed like pearls and the reds were so bright they looked dangerous. Most people know currants as tiny dried fruit that resemble raisins used in baked goods or salads. Tangy and tart, fresh currants are usually part of a garnish, topping a sorbet-filled melon, for instance, or in a sauce to complement a roasted meat. But I wanted my currants to star in the center ring.
Posted in Baked goods, Dessert, tagged baked goods, cookies, dessert, Thanksgiving on November 20, 2010| 3 Comments »
These cookies are a riff on the recipe found inside the lid of the Quaker Oats canister. They use less butter and have some of the best flavors of Thanksgiving: cranberry, pumpkin, and cinnamon. I find them to be a great treat to make a day or two after the holiday meal as friends and family still linger on the sofa and the leftovers start to ebb. (more…)
Posted in Baked goods, Dessert, Holiday dishes, tagged baked goods, cookies, dessert on October 31, 2010| 11 Comments »
This weekend felt like fall’s grand finale. The temperature dropped and dry leaves skittered through the air like colorful confetti. It was, in a word, magnificent.
There was this other event going on, too, called Halloween. But for me the real costume parade was happening overhead. (more…)
Posted in Baked goods, Cookbooks, Dessert, Recipes, tagged cookies, dessert, jam sandwich cookies, picnic on August 12, 2010| 3 Comments »
‘Tis the season for lounging about on the grass. There’s nothing like getting down low on a blanket under a leafy canopy, or a starry sky, or an illuminated cityscape and just … being. It’s even better if food is within lazy reach.
Last weekend I did some serious lollygagging. I can justify this because there was some serious high-minded expression of artistic talent going on not too far away. (more…)
Posted in Dessert, Recipes, tagged cake disasters, dessert, icebox cake on August 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I was cruising around the Web the other day, following the endless trail of food blogs when an accident happened. (more…)
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