Archive for the 'fruit' Category
Learning to Eat Quinces
December 3rd, 2009by Caroline Winter fruit in California is maybe not quite so varied as summer fruit, but with satsumas, pomegranates, and pears, I’m not complaining. This winter, I’m also optimistically awaiting a new addition to our winter fruit menu: the quince! After years of beautiful flowers from the raggedy little tree in the far corner of [...]
Maple Pear Upside-Down Cake
November 13th, 2009by Caroline Another night, another cake! This one thanks to my mom, who is a regular clipping service, sending me links to New York Times articles I would otherwise miss and recipes with bigger yields than she and my dad can handle. It’s quite a bit like the apricot upside-down cake I made several times [...]
Apple Cake, Thanks to Mickey
November 8th, 2009by Caroline It was late Sunday afternoon, and Tony was cooking dinner while the boys and I sat on the couch, reading. Ben was buried in his new book, The Mad Scientists’ Club and Eli and I were reading In the Night Kitchen. When I turn to the last page, I always stop reading and [...]
Morale-Boosting Banana Coconut Muffins
October 16th, 2009by Caroline There comes a time in every child’s illness when the child is still too sick to attend school (he’s got to be fever-free for 24 hours) but is too well to lie docilely on the couch watching videos while his mother catches up on her New Yorkers. And that is the time, in [...]
Peel Me a Pomegranate
October 15th, 2009By Lisa The title of this post is a blatant homage to Nina Finci’s, as yet unpublished memoir Peel Me a Pomegranate about emigrating from Croatia to America age 15, shortly before the Yugoslav war changed her family life forever. Check out her blog(s). As for the pomegranate, in one section of her memoir, she [...]
Feeding the sick
October 14th, 2009by Caroline Despite timely flu shots, good eating habits, and frankly pretty impressive personal hygiene in kids this age, my sons have been passing a cold back and forth for over two weeks now. I can hardly remember what it feels like to send two children to school. And although I’ve managed to stay healthy [...]
A Gift of Apples
September 21st, 2009by Caroline I did a favor for a writer friend recently, reading her manuscript and writing a blurb for her publisher. It was an easy favor to do– I’d enjoyed her earlier book, a collection of essays called Because I Love Her, and expected I’d like the new one, which I really did. So when [...]
One Flat of Apricots. No Jam.
July 20th, 2009by Caroline I know I should make jam. Every summer the local paper runs an article about jam making, with lots of delicious-looking recipes and helpful instructions. Every summer my good friend invites me over to her kitchen to make jam with her. I know it’s not hard, and the fact that I don’t have [...]
Strawberry Fruit Leather
May 2nd, 2009by Caroline Fruit leather is a bit of a thing in our house. On the one hand, I just don’t see the point. To me, it’s perfectly good fruit to which sugar has been added and plastic has been wrapped around. Why not just eat an apple or a cup of berries? But on the [...]
Kumquat Popsicles: A Dessert/Craft Project
February 26th, 2009by Caroline A couple years ago, an Amanda Hesser food column in the Sunday Times Magazine inspired me to do a little popsicle/craft project with kumquats. Kumquats are an odd little fruit — the peel is the sweet part, while the inner fruit is quite tart — and I lived over thirty years without ever [...]