Mom’s Brown and Serve Wheat Germ Rolls
by Caroline Every Thanksgiving, I think, “Maybe I’ll make a different kind of roll this year. Maybe sweet potato. Or even Parker House. I don’t need so many dozens of rolls.” And every year, I dig up...
View ArticleChocolate Cookie Candy Cane Bark
Easy, kid-friendly, keeps-well, delicious, no-bake Christmas treat that my 7 year-old can make with only the slightest supervision? Sign me up. from Babble, adapted from Bon Appetit 1 pound bittersweet...
View ArticleIt’s The Bombe
A couple years ago, my sister gave me Jenni’s Splendid Ice Creams cookbook and the boys and I have been happily exploring its recipes. But it wasn’t until recently that Ben took a close look at the...
View ArticleNutty Bars
We snack, and it’s all my fault. Snacking gets a bad rap sometimes. Most Europeans scorn snacks, and plenty of people claim the road to overeating is paved with snacks. But I have always been much...
View ArticleChocolate Cream Eggs for (the day after) Easter
Perhaps if I were a more professional food blogger, I would have tried this recipe a couple weeks ago, and then posted it last week in time for you all to decide to make it, too. But I am not at all a...
View ArticleWelcome Home Scones
There was a time when flying home to San Francisco after a visit to my east coast family would leave my kids so crazed with jet lagged — and me so exhausted from their 3 AM wake ups — that I could fall...
View ArticleAlone in the Kitchen
The cool, layered tank top. The tough wrist wraps. The blond pony tail. The endless, obsessive, focused, recipe testing. I saw this photo and I though: OMG, she’s channeling dash and bella. Ella has...
View ArticleEli’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
By now, I’ve told the story of Eli’s Super Cake at over a dozen events, and hundreds of readers have eaten the cake themselves. More importantly, I have learned that when Eli has a recipe idea, I...
View ArticleEli’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
“Mama,” he said quietly, sneaking up behind me, “I want to make a recipe.” I looked around the kitchen. My dad was messily stirring together a batch of carrot muffins, while Tony was assembling a...
View ArticleEli’s Milk Soft Bakery: Double Chocolate Nut Cookies
I am deep in the midst of Thanksgiving preparations: cranberries purchased; pumpkins roasted and waiting to become pie filling; brown and serve rolls ready for baking. But during a quiet moment in the...
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