Archive for the 'recipes' Category
Reading & Writing Cookbooks
March 22nd, 2010by Caroline
The first cookbook I remember using as a kid is the square, green and pink Peanuts (as in the comic strip) cookbook, a batter-splattered copy of which I still keep on my kitchen bookshelf. It drew me in with its goofy cartoons, and the recipes led me to the kitchen. I made Lucy’s Lemon [...]
Strawberry Pie for Pi Day
March 16th, 2010by Caroline
The New Englander in me is still shocked to see strawberries at the farmer’s market in March, but I get over that quickly, feel grateful for this early hit of summer, and buy quarts of them. This week, I knew I wanted to make a pie to celebrate Pi Day (March 14 = 3/14 [...]
Baking with Boys: The Grant Loaf
March 12th, 2010by Caroline
Among the many cookbooks Ben owns, he’s currently drawn most to the beautifully photographed Cooking with Kids. It’s not quite as charming as Mollie Katzen’s Pretend Soup, nor as fun to read as Alice Waters’ Fanny at Chez Panisse, but it’s got a nice mix of simple (chocolate bananas) and more complicated recipes (cinnamon [...]
Cooking with Ben
March 11th, 2010by Caroline
I love Pete Wells’ Cooking with Dexter column, and this week’s installment spoke to me particularly. Wells, apparently, is a perfectionist, and his occasional cooking missteps make him storm and stomp – unless his five year-old son is around. Then, because like any parent Wells likes to model more constructive behavior, he checks his [...]
Pasta with Beets for Valentine’s Day
February 14th, 2010by Caroline
There was a time when Valentine’s Day had me making heart-shaped chocolate sandwich cookies, or even, just a few weeks before Ben was born, brownie ice cream sandwiches (I’ll never forget the lady who saw me standing in the ice cream aisle — I was looking for flavor inspiration — and commented, “It’s a [...]
Classic Oatmeal Cookies
February 9th, 2010by Caroline
There is nothing remarkable about this cookie recipe except, perhaps, that I have been following it faithfully for over 35 years, and if you read this blog periodically or know me at all, you know that I am always tweaking recipes for baked goods. But why mess with a classic? This is the recipe [...]
Pear Bread
February 7th, 2010by Caroline
The other day I saw a bus ad quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson’s line, “There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” I was so surprised to see Emerson’s words on the side of a bus that it took a while before I stopped to think [...]
Chard & Walnut Lasagna
February 1st, 2010by Caroline
It seems amazing to me that three and a half years ago, I began a blog post, “Ben’s not a picky eater…” What happened?! One day he was eating toasts spread with goat cheese and eggplant caviar and then, one by one, foods started to leave his diet. I wonder sometimes about the impact [...]
Weekend Waffles
January 18th, 2010by Lisa
birthday flowers, whipped cream, maple syrup, blueberries…
Generally speaking, I’m not in charge of breakfast, and I prefer pancakes to waffles. This is not so true of my husband, who loves waffles, and who counted a waffle maker among the very few kitchen machines in his bachelor home. He made waffles pretty regularly (from [...]
A Good Way to Start the Week
January 11th, 2010I will stop with all the cookie recipes soon, I promise, and get on to other topics, but I couldn’t resist writing about this one which I first spotted on my friend (and Mama, PhD contributor) Sheila’s blog: Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies.
Now, normally I am a big fan of flour in baked goods. You can [...]