There are times it's so darn hard to make the food you're craving... Every year, on or around Halloween, I've kept with the tradition of making something pumpkin based. For a few weeks now, all I could think of was pumpkin soup. Creamy, onion-y, silky, and perfect, alongside something comfortable ...
Frosted Apple Cake from Williams-Sonoma
At the first sign of cold weather, my mouth begins to water for fall foods. Cinnamon, roasted beets, fresh pomegranate and kumquats. Fresh apples everywhere, and so many winter squash... just last night, I had a pizza topped with butternuts and Brussels sprouts (and it was delicious!). Desserts ...
Pina Coladas
Scorching summer temperatures have me wanting to drink all of the cold things. From a tall, sweating pitcher of iced tea to the feel of cracking open a freezing cold beer, there's something about a cool beverage in the summertime that makes one want to kick their feet up, forget about the humidity, ...
The Citrus Crepe Cake
There's something so special about a beautiful dessert. Think of a sharable chocolate soufflé, a mile-high New York cheesecake, or the Italian Creme Cake your grandma made for your birthday (definitely something that happened for me). It's the carefully laced lattice on a pie at Thanksgiving and ...
Vinegar-Glossed Chicken
In the midst of my kitchen organizing chaos, desperate to make the insides of my cabinets beautiful and functional, I finally unpacked some books from the basement, finding- among other things- several cookbooks I'd forgotten I had.
I remember being introduced to Lucinda Scala Quinn's cookbook, ...
The Peanut Butter Ball
My grandmother is guilty of passing on false information. That's not to say she was a liar, but that she protected her recipes within an inch of her life. The recipe for the Italian Creme Cake she so loyally baked every birthday and Christmas was typed out on a three by five index card, ...
Old Fashioned Bourbon Milk Punch
One more Christmas post, and I swear I'll move on to 2018:
I'm not a lover of eggnog, and unless its the super thick cavity-and-cellulite-causing kind in the carton, boiled custard isn't my jam (the exception: that made by my chidhoold next door neighbor, an older woman we called Aunt Lois. ...
Pumpkin Risotto
I try around each Halloween to make something festive and of the season. Whether its a hollowed out pumpkin filled with ground beef stuffing, roasted slices of the gourd along pork chops, creamy pumpkin bisque, or this, my favorite pumpkin recipe since I stumbled upon it; Pumpkin Risotto from ...
Pecan and Molasses Bundt Cake
I love the flavor of molasses. That dark, smokey almost-honey harkens memories of sitting at my grandparents’ breakfast table on Sunday mornings. My grandpa would mix his Sorghum- he pronounced it SARgum- with butter to spread on his breakfast biscuits, and it seemed like the smell would fill ...
