Archive for the 'snacks' Category
A Sparkling New Year
January 3rd, 2011by Caroline Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks is one of the few food blogs I read regularly: the writing is wonderful, the recipes are terrific, the photography is gorgeous. Even better, my sister and several friends read the blog, too; they often try out the recipes before I can get to them and report back with [...]
Snack Pancakes
December 8th, 2010by Caroline Using up leftovers is a rarely an issue in my house, and yet sometimes a recipe looks so good that — even if it’s billed as a way to use up leftovers — I try it out. That’s how I discovered our new favorite winter holiday cookie (the cranberry thumbprint), for which I [...]
Doughnut Muffins
December 1st, 2010by Caroline This time of year, seasonal eating is often also holiday eating, as we slide from Halloween through Thanksgiving into Christmas and New Year’s. I want to take each of these in turn, give them their due, and then take a breath before the next one is upon us. Which is why I love [...]
Buy Me Some Peanuts and…
October 22nd, 2010Caramel Corn! by Caroline As I learned this week, thanks to the intrepid research assistance of friends and family, true Cracker Jack — whether you buy it at the ball park or make it at home to eat while cheering for your team — contains molasses. And while I’m always looking for ways to add [...]
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 [...]
Horseradish Cheddar Cheese Dip
September 17th, 2010by Lisa Caroline makes a fine garbage salad, and a long time ago, I started making a kind of garbage cheese dip. Like so much of what goes on around here, there is no single recipe but rather a set of strategies and tips. This is what you can do if friends stop in unexpectedly. [...]
Applesauce Muffins, in the good bowl
September 16th, 2010by Caroline This time of year, with school in full swing and the afterschool events (in this house, piano lessons and soccer practices) getting going, I’m thinking more about good snacks than usual. The boys need something when I pick them up from school, and often eat another small snack after we get home, before [...]
A Bad-Good Day
July 19th, 2010by Caroline When my friend Ursula moved to Portugal for a year and said she had room for us all to come stay, I started looking into airfares. When she started posting pictures of Portuguese pastry on her website, I booked the tickets. She wrote me about her favorite pastry shop in Lisbon, and said [...]
Why We Travel
July 17th, 2010by Caroline I love the mix of familiar and unfamiliar when we travel. We bring food from home, but we shop in new markets. We rent an apartment so we can cook most of our own meals, but we also eat out and learn how to translate menus written in different languages. Our first night [...]
Moon Pies for Rocket Boys
June 10th, 2010by Caroline It’s all about rockets in our house lately. The boys are reading about Apollo 11 and the other moon missions, drawing rocket pictures, building cardboard and foil rockets, and making plans for their future lives as rocket scientists. I play along as much as I can, but my kids understand two fundamental things [...]