Archive for the 'dessert' Category
Saying Yes
July 15th, 2011By Lisa I agree with Caroline, as I suppose, do lots of you. Summer is a time to say yes a little more often. For instance, the other night, even though there was a great spread of salamis, pasta, bread, at our local concert in the park, I said “yes” to ice cream for dinner. [...]
Super-decadent No-Bake Fudge Brownies
July 6th, 2011by Caroline I may never bake another brownie again. Oh, I will certainly make brownies, but now I’ve found a recipe that rivals even the one I discovered in Kate Moses’ gorgeous memoir-with-recipes, Cakewalk, the brownie recipe I said — oh, less than two months ago — was the last brownie recipe you would ever [...]
First Honey Ice Cream, then Chocolate Cake
June 18th, 2011by Caroline After making the honey ice cream the other day, I had 6 egg whites left over. I could have made an egg white omelette, I suppose, but that’s not really my style. This is more my style: This recipe is similar — in look and execution — to Lisa’s chocolate roulade, though her [...]
Honey Ice Cream
June 16th, 2011by Caroline I am learning — slowly — that while San Francisco doesn’t offer the summer weather I grew up with (and long for) when school lets out each year, there are ways to compensate for that. Here at home it may be 60 degrees, with fog swirling in the street and a wind so [...]
The Only Brownie Recipe You Will Ever Need
May 18th, 2011by Caroline Last summer, to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, Tony and I arranged back to back sleepovers for our kids with two different families, and thus managed our first two-night getaway together since Ben was born. We’d each been away longer on our own (or with friends and family), both for work and for [...]
Maple Easter Candy
April 22nd, 2011by Caroline Every year, I hope that maybe our Easter trip to my parents’ home in Connecticut will line up with sugar season, that window every New England spring when the temperatures sink below freezing at night but rise into the 40s during the day, with enough sun to warm the trees and encourage the [...]
The Birthday Menu
March 4th, 2011by Caroline The one day a year I am very happy to take orders from my kids is on their birthdays, when they know they can order up a day of special meals, culminating in whatever birthday cake they like. Ben’s birthday today falls on a school day, so I have no say over his [...]
Birthday Cake
February 16th, 2011by Caroline Five years ago today, in honor of her milestone birthday, I organized a virtual birthday celebration for my sister by having her many friends post birthday cake pictures on their blogs. This year, with fewer of us blogging and more of us on Facebook, her friend Becca and I organized a somewhat different [...]
Tropical Blizzard
January 13th, 2011By Lisa This is an unlikely and unpractical post for the middle of winter if, like me, you’re cold in any state but Hawaii. But it’s not wholly inappropriate if you’re like my kids, and are not ever bothered by the cold, even in the middle of blizzard. In an effort to keep my hungry [...]
Glazed Lemon Tea Cake
January 12th, 2011by Caroline It has been so cold this week — a rare-for-San-Francisco crisp and sunny cold — that all I want to do is stay home curled up on the couch, drinking tea and eating cake. Unfortunately, children need driving to and from school, essays need writing, and other chores interfere with my desire to [...]