Out of the Frying Pan

9 April 2013
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Skillet Cookie

Almost always, I can pinpoint with elaborate detail the source of a much-loved dish.  Usually, I can tell you who made it and then shared the recipe with me.   Or if it came from a magazine, I can name the magazine — sometimes to the issue — that dazzled me into trying a recipe the [...]

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Toasted

3 April 2013
S'mores Cups

This summer’s camping itinerary made it onto our calendars months ago.  Following a tradition now in its fourth year, we’re looking forward to monthly trips to different islands in the San Juan archipelago with a group of families.  Considering the varied commitments pulling us all in different directions, the consistency of this enterprise strikes me [...]

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Piece of Cake

25 March 2013
Ganache Glazed Chocolate Cake

One of my favorite lines from Russell and Lillian Hoban’s book, A Baby Sister for Frances, comes at the very end of the story.  Frances, a young badger, is in the kitchen with her mother, who is baking a cake.  “Oh, yes,” her mother tells her, “you may be sure that there will always be [...]

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Minted

16 March 2013
Grasshopper Tartlets

We didn’t eat much junk food at my house growing up, but we did indulge in dessert most nights after dinner.  Often, we finished our meal with a simple bowl of ice cream, but sometimes my my mom — a master of sweet, indulgent treats — served us something much more exciting. In late summer, [...]

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For the Birds

10 March 2013
Seeded Wheat Bread

My daughter Eliza eats like a bird.  I mean this literally.  Almost without exception, when I ask her what kind of bread to bake, she asks for bread with seeds — Seeded White Bread or White Bread with Sesame Seeds or Multigrain Pumpkin Seed Bread. And after I bake seeded bread for her, as the [...]

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