Cooking with seasonal products and the contents of your pantry
Chanukah means latkes first and foremost around here. But not too far behind is this treat. It’s not necessarily just for this holiday, but I always make at least a double or triple batch to share with family and friends. Because in my opinion, homemade…
Thank you for your patience as there is about a month in between posts! But now as a thank you for sticking with me, I present to you the recipe for my all-time favorite snickerdoodle. The traditional cinnamon-sugar mixture has been amped up with chai…
We are doing a lot of baking these days. And it is a great and delicious way to help kids understand math (such as proportions, fractions, addition, subtraction, etc) and science (what happens when things bake, when certain ingredients meet, etc). A couple of days…
It was the hottest it has been all summer. Ninety-two degrees when the average this time of the year is the upper sixties. So what do I do? Turn the oven on and bake a cake. Multiple cakes. Multiple versions of this vanilla cake. Because…
A sweet, tart, nutty dessert that also happens to be gluten-free. Personally, I’m usually a fan of gluten – a freshly baked loaf of sourdough straight from the oven is pretty much on of my favorite things to eat. But I have some friends who…
Versions of this cobbler are made often throughout the summer – when we buy so much fruit that we can’t possibly eat it all before it begins to spoil. This can be made with any combination of summer fruits you’d like. I like using a…