Sometimes (often!), easier is better when it comes to cooking and baking. Such was the case when I finally decided to pull the frozen cherries out of the freezer. At first, I thought I’d make a pie, since I’m a pie lover and couldn’t seem to find other cherry recipes that inspired me. Clafouti, which [...]
Some people just seem to ooze creativity, and my online friend Joanne Seiff is one of them. Besides being an accomplished cook, she’s also a writer, blogger, knitter, spinner, knitwear designer and cook, and now she can add “author” to her titles. In her new book, Fiber Gathering, she blends her many talents. She writes [...]
Lucky me. I found myself in possession of a selection of succulent local pears. Even though these are quite lovely eaten raw, I decided to use nearly all of them as the basis for my local-food contribution to yesterday’s local wine-local food dinner. At first, I thought I’d make a pear tart of some kind, [...]
If I knew then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have undertaken this exercise in freezing apples. But this is how we learn, right? It started because I wasn’t of a mind to turn on the oven, so I decided to prep half my apples, freeze them and turn them into pie at some [...]
Sometimes I think we American cooks get too caught up in what’s fashionable to prepare rather than focusing on what’s divine to eat. Consider peches cardinal. Sort of like Peach Melba without the ice cream, peches cardinal combines two divine fruits—ripe peaches and raspberries—prepared to underscore their savor and highlighted with a touch of vanilla [...]