Sweet Potato Pecan Sticky Buns Traditions are hard to shake. For years my family skied at Big White in Canada for the Christmas holiday, and I’d make sticky buns for a late-morning Christmas brunch, served after a couple of hours on the slopes when we were all ravenous. When I didn’t make them this year, […]
Is Turkey to Blame for the “I Need a Nap” Feeling After a Thanksgiving Feast?
November 8, 2022 by 1 Comment
Marinated Fig Relish with Olives and Peppers Thanksgiving plans and prep are underway. My inbox is flooded with messages such as “time to order your turkey,” “plan the best friendsgiving ever,” and links to recipes for pies, sides and more. My family isn’t the only one who celebrates with a table overflowing with “must-have” dishes, […]
Invite This Salad to your Holiday Table
December 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Christmas Slaw with Farro, Pomegranates, Cherries and Pistachios Every feast needs something fresh and crunchy to balance rich holiday foods. Here it is. Call it a slaw, since it has purple cabbage, but that’s where ordinary ends. This slaw is powered with super-food status foods with histories of nourishing people since ancient times. Farro, an […]
Drop Everything and Make Cookies
December 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Bourbon-Orange Pecan Pie Bars Tradition reigns at Christmas, and a tradition I treasure is baking cookies. When holiday chores loom, I’ll postpone mailing, wrapping and other to-dos, to get to work in the kitchen. I pay attention to “added sugars” and have cut back. I’m thrilled that the new food label, debuting in 2020, will […]
Food Bridges the Seasons
November 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Butternut, Blue Cheese & Fig Galette August seems like long ago. That’s when we made what has become an annual visit to Krueger Pepper Farm, loading up on end-of summer produce – a variety of tomatoes, including fresh San Marzanos, peppers, tomatillos, eggplant, corn and melons. First, we go into the fields to do […]
Sweet Traditions
December 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Mediterranean Granola with Pistachios, Hazelnuts and Orange The holidays are full of cherished traditions and many revolve around food treats. My second cousin Joanie called yesterday and we reminisced about Auntie’s (her mom’s) English toffee, her rich, buttery refrigerator rolls and Swedish snowball cookies (what I call Russian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cakes). […]
Dessert First on the Fourth – Why Not?
July 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Chocolate Shortcakes Except for apple pie, no dessert is more American and more appropriate for the Fourth of July than shortcake, dressed up with red and blue berries and a billow of cream. No matter that (according to Wikipedia) an early recipe strawberry shortcake was found in an English cookbook dating back to 1588. Shortcake […]
Make Dad A Savory Baked Pancake
June 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Make Dad A Savory Baked Pancake This skillet-size pancake bakes with savory flavors of Parmesan cheese, chopped bacon, herbs, onion and sliced figs. It’s so easy you can make it for Dad while the coffee is brewing. Blitz the batter ingredient is a blender, pour into a skillet with a little melted butter, add […]
Best App for 2016
December 13, 2016 by Leave a Comment
No – it’s not an app for your phone, this is my go-to appetizer for holiday parties. Why? The recipe requires only a handful of ingredients, it goes together in a snap, and most of the prep can be done ahead. And I love the combination – robust blue cheese, finely chopped figs and toasted […]
Break Bread this Thanksgiving with Rustic Grain, Fig and Walnut Rolls
November 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The classic must-have Thanksgiving dishes of today vaguely resemble what historians say was served at the “First Thanksgiving,” shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people at Plymouth Colony in 1621, according to an article “What Was on The Menu at the First Thanksgiving” (Reference 1). Wild turkeys were available but they were more likely […]
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