Category: Books

How can you not love a recipe that starts with this dough is magical? And, in fact it is. This rugelach dough that I found in Kate Zukerman’s The Sweet…

Christmas comes slowly to our house. I have many friends and family members who have decorations in place as early as the day after Thanksgiving and all their presents bought…

I’ve been having one of those weeks where I want to bake, but my ideals are getting in the way. I want to make just the right thing… so I…

This was supposed to be a post about Quince. It’s my new fall fruit obsession. Last year, you might remember, it was persimmon. I became temporarily obsessed with the sweet…

I suppose it’s kind of the point to be startled by Halloween. It always seems to sneak up on. All my plans of carving up the many pumpkins that I…

Sometimes I think that I just love the Donna Hay books and magazines because of the amazing design and photos. Then, I get around to actually making a recipe, and…

Let’s say you suddenly find yourself with far, far too much produce. You have 5 pounds of plums from less than 100 yards away, apples plucked off the tree at…

So, I had these fava beans. And I needed to figure out what to do with them. When I bought them at the market, I was going to do a…

I’ve had a song stuck in my head for the past couple of weeks. It’s Corinne Bailey Rae‘s Put Your Records On, and it’s stuck in a good way, not…

I’m not sure why, but whenever I’m at the farmer’s market and pass by the apricot stand, I simply can’t resist picking up a “grab bag” whether or not I…

The University District farmers market is one of the bigger and better neighborhood markets, and even at the first booth, I feel like a kid in a candy store. I…

It’s probably a good idea that I spent the first 38 years of my life not knowing that it was so incredibly simple to make pâte à choux, the airy…