OR. Christmas Yule log with chestnut cream. My friend and neighbor Nancy has baked many a delicious Yule log cake in her day, and generously offered to share her recipe and techniques on this here blog in honor of the Winter Solstice tomorrow. When I dropped by her home last weekend to help decorate the […]
Happy Halloween! In honor of the witchiest of holidays, here’s a seasonal recipe to make tonight or this weekend and enjoy with a cup of hot, black coffee. The recipe and beautiful graphic both come from my crazy talented friend Claire Mueller, who made this spiced pumpkin cake on a canning date a couple weekends […]
Mollie Katzen was at Sixth and I synagogue talking about her latest cookbook, The Heart of the Plate, tonight. With her groundbreaking hand-drawn Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Mollie was truly a pioneer for transforming the dinner plate and putting vegetables in the limelight, rather than the conventional serving of meat. During this golden age of […]
The last unofficial weekend of summer was spent with my family on Chincoteague Island, a tiny barrier island off the coast of Virginia. The sun was hot and the ocean water was cold. We made a big peach pie using my friend Kari‘s secret recipe. Ate fresh littleneck clams by the handful. Went for late […]
When summer calls for a dessert, I usually bake up a fresh fruit pie or find the closest ice cream parlor. But this coconut panna cotta with mixed berry coulis, adapted from a recipe from Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Cooking, combines the fruit from the pie and the cold sweetness of ice cream and hits […]
Near the tip of the Eastern Shore, that tongue of land that juts down the side of the Chesapeake Bay, there sits a small barrier island nestled between salt marshes and the sea. Until relatively recently, Chincoteague Island was home to oyster fishermen, wild ponies, ice cream parlors and not much else. My family has […]
When friends ask me if homemade pie crust is really essential to a good pie, this is what I tell them. Look – a pie is made of just two things: filling and crust. You can have the most amazing, handcrafted pie filling in the world, but if your crust is lousy, your pie will be […]
Multiple friends told me I had to meet Emily nearly two years before it finally happened. We both live in DC, keep food blogs, and have a mutual affinity for folklore, fiddles, and brown leather boots. But for some reason, the connection eluded us until we finally met at the opening party for Emily’s self-published […]
This one’s for you. Yes, You, who fear the oven in general but especially when the holiday pressure is on. You, who are joining your friends for a Friendsgiving and have never made a pie before. You, who are too busy with work and kids and life and think you don’t have time to cook anything, ever, […]
Hello old friends. And hello new friends, especially those who found this blog through my Iceland post and some viral internet fairy dust. The power of the web is truly astounding. Case in point: I meet a few travelers at a guesthouse in Vík í Mýrdal, the southern-most seaside town in Iceland, and we share a […]
