For many years, we’ve been spending Easter Sunday with our friends, the Haights, and for just as long, I’ve been baking this carrot cake recipe. I want to say carrot cake is my favorite cake, but I think it’s because of the frosting. I usually scrape off the frosting from cupcakes or cake, ’cause I’m [...]
I adapted this recipe from a Classic Fudge-Walnut Brownie recipe I found in Cooking Light last winter. It’s been burning a hole in my recipe file for a year. I decided to make it using a gluten-free baking mix, but you can easily use the all-purpose flour the original version calls for. I substituted coffee [...]
Oh, so close to Valentine’s Day, I guess it’s time for me to get all romantic. Chocolate it is then! What else? I don’t really like Flan or Creme Brûlée. It’s a texture thing…too…creamy…too smooth, but Chocolate Mousse? That’s a different story! It’s a little bit denser, richer and a lot more fun! I’ve had [...]
Some of the best recipes are passed down from generation to generation. We all have them, written on scraps of paper, and old index cards…tattered, yellowed and filled with memories. Most of those recipes, we can make by feel…a handful of this, a heaping spoonful of that. The recipe will vary slightly each time, but [...]
New year, new beginnings? I don’t know if I really feel that so much in January as I do in September. January is hibernation time. I like to crawl into my warm cave and cook and eat warming foods. It’s no coincidence that winter foods are flavored with warming spices like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. [...]
I have warm memories of Christmases spent in England. We’d drive up from London for a few days to my friend’s family home in North Yorkshire. The dining room in the “house” was large enough to hold one long table which sat 24 family members and one, far-from home Expat-Californian. Mr. R. as the host, [...]
