We have now eaten all of the cookies, brownies, pecan toffees, butterscotch balls, chocolate Santas, and miniature candy canes in the house. The holidays are officially over, and I’m going through sugar withdrawal.
We had most of a can of pumpkin puree in the fridge, left over from eggless muffins. Because I was […]
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Pumpkin-Maple Cookies for the New Year
02-Jan-08Pear-Ginger Upside-Down Skillet Cake
28-Dec-07We travelled to visit our very good friends outside of Boston for Christmas. I brought my 12″ cast iron skillet. Over the course of the visit, I wound up using it for bacon, sauteéing turkey livers, and at least one or two other applications.
But general-purpose uses aren’t why I brought the skillet. […]
What to do with a single, beautiful pomegranate, and a dinner hostess who loves chocolate?
Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil
Adapted from delicious:days
(Note: Somehow, when reading the original recipe, “3 egg yolks plus 3 egg whites” got translated into 6 eggs, separated. No wonder it made 11 servings instead of 4-6. Do as I […]
I’ve been thinking about cheesecake. Lucky me, because of the time of year there have been oodles of cheesecake recipes around the blogosphere. I even saw a recipe on America’s Test Kitchen recently for a lower fat cheesecake that supposedly passes Christopher Kimball’s muster. (A difficult thing to manage. Those Vermonters […]
Blueberry-Coconut Ice Cream
30-Nov-07For the first recipe on this site: an old, improvised recipe thrown together while trying to figure out what to do with half a can of coconut milk. I only happened to have lowfat milk on hand — use whole milk, half-and-half, or even cream if you like. Or omit the milk […]