Archive for the 'dessert' Category
Icing on the Cake
November 3rd, 2010by Caroline The World Series is over, our team won, and our black and orange meals won’t be baseball-related anymore — though they’re so seasonal, I’m sure they’ll continue. But today, after a long and fabulous day at the Giants’ ticker tape parade, we didn’t have it in us to cook anything. We opted for [...]
Black & Orange Oreos for the Team
October 15th, 2010by Caroline The other day we were brainstorming about foods we could make to celebrate our team — the San Francisco Giants — moving into the playoffs. Conveniently, their uniforms are a seasonal black and orange so we were thinking pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips (or chocolate frosting), and for dinner, black bean and sweet [...]
Celebratory Fruit Turnovers
October 11th, 2010by Caroline We were watching the Giants/Braves playoff game Sunday afternoon with nothing to munch on but little bowls of peanuts (it was almost time for dinner; I’ve been sick for two days) when the boys started dreaming of how our snacks might improve as our team plays deeper into the postseason. “Crackerjack!” one shouted. [...]
Bake Sale Chocolate Chip Cookies
October 9th, 2010by Caroline On a recent episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts (yes, I watch it, and I watch Top Chef, too), the contestants were asked to make items for a bake sale. One made a milk chocolate ginger pudding. Another made strawberry shortcake. Have these folks never been to a bake sale?! The winning recipe, [...]
Eli’s Super Cake
September 28th, 2010by Caroline It’s been a heady time for the youngest member of our family. In the months since he turned five, late last spring, he has learned to swim, learned to ride a bike without training wheels, graduated from preschool, started kindergarten, joined a soccer team — and scored two goals in his first game. [...]
Plum Cake, for Rosh Hashanah or any other day
September 10th, 2010by Caroline You know how it goes. The school year begins and suddenly the calendar fills up: parent association meetings; soccer practices and games; school fundraisers. You try to get friends over for dinner and it takes a dozen emails and weeks of planning. Except, every once in a while, it comes together quickly, magically, [...]
Root Beer Float x 2
September 7th, 2010by Lisa We have a great debate going in our house: which goes in a root beer float first, the ice cream or the soda? This has been an ongoing experiment all summer long, since we discovered Trader Joe’s has a good bottled root beer (& a caffeine free cola that’s pretty terrific, too.) We [...]
Frozen Hot Chocolate
August 24th, 2010By Lisa One of the magical things about trips to New York as a kid were trips to the whimsical Serendipity 3 after seeing a show or going to a museum. We went with family, we went with friends, and now, when we’re back east (which is not so often), we take our own kids. [...]
Coconut Ice Cream
August 11th, 2010by Caroline Even though it has been cold enough all summer in San Francisco to turn on the heat, one recent day we also turned on the ice cream machine. This recipe comes from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, by Bruce Weinstein, and it is absolutely fabulous. 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut 1 c sugar [...]
Strawbery Balsamic Cookie Crunch Ice Cream
August 5th, 2010by Caroline I usually don’t have much trouble getting my kids into the kitchen; we make sushi together, we make muffins, we make cakes and pancakes — mostly I bake with the kids, because mostly I bake, period. But anything I’m making, they’re welcome to participate, and they’re typically eager to help. Still, when a [...]