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 [...]
My batting average for the weekend was .333. Which I guess is ok if you’re talking about baseball stats, but it’s a disappointing stat for recipe development in my house. When I try some thing new, and test it on the family, I shoot for 3 out of the 4 of us giving it a [...]
Do you remember the old cartoons where someone would smell something incredibly delicious and his body would float in the air, following the scent? That’s how my husband is about Indian food. When our old neighbors, who are Pakistani-American, moved in, the days that Kishwar cooked traditional foods, the smells that would come wafting over [...]
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 [...]
I’ve always wanted to roast a chicken on top of a beer can. Especially since I don’t own a vertical roaster. Why bother, when a beer can works just as well? One less piece of kitchen equipment to store. Skimming through old copies of Cook’s Illustrated recently, I came across this recipe for Peruvian Garlic-Lime [...]
