Tag: dessert
member name: Kevin Weeks
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October 03, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Fall is coming early this year, rushing in like a river when the levee breaks. And like a flooding river, fall creates turmoil. Looking to the hills I see oaks still sporting their summer work . . .
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May 17, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
A Perfect Morning
Coffee and newspaper in hand, I stepped out onto my patio and into that strangely orange-gold light that suffuses a clear fall morning. Each season seems to have it's own special . . .
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August 06, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Consorting with Cookies
My mother was never much of a baker. It wasn't that she couldn't bake when called upon -- she had the skills -- she just wasn't particularly interested. That said, . . .
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September 17, 2006 05:37 PM EDT --
A friend of mine celebrated his 6th Annual 42nd birthday this past fall. For those of you unfamiliar with Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the answer to life, the universe, . . .
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July 04, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
I began collecting recipes when I was seven or eight years old. One of the recipes I collected was a peanut butter candy served in the school cafeteria. I don't remember the details, but apparently . . .
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October 11, 2007 05:37 PM EDT --
One of the challenges of teaching cooking classes is coming up with new menus. The menus need to have a theme, offer interesting recipes that aren't too unusual (for example, a romantic menu for two . . .
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November 16, 2007 06:25 PM EST --
This article was originally posted in 2006.
T hanksgiving is America's best holiday. It's unencumbered with gifts and cards and similar commercial holiday paraphernalia. There is no long, . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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March 01, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
A quilt hangs on the wall in my dining room. It's about four feet square and displays a single large white diamond surrounded and filled with small, randomly colored squares of cloth. It isn't . . .
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December 28, 2007 03:31 PM EST --
W hen I was a growing up, one of the jobs assigned to the kids at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners was making the cranberry relish. We had a hand-cranked grinder and the recipe called for ground cranberries . . .
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November 13, 2006 10:55 AM EST --
Experimentalism --
Usually I have no qualms about experimenting on family, friends, students, or even clients. I'll try out new recipes on all of them with few qualms. But then, I'm usually . . .
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June 03, 2006 04:24 PM EDT --
Strawberries Too
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about...
Once you've made the obligatory strawberry shortcake each spring, the question becomes what to do next with strawberries. . . .
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June 21, 2006 03:41 PM EDT --
Triple Your Pleasure
"During the publication of the series of the 'Brownies' just closed in The Ladies Home Journal, the question has often come to me 'What is the origin of the brownies?' . . .
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July 18, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
Brunch is Served
When the folks at the local Williams-Sonoma have asked me to do some cooking classes this past winter I planned on least one and maybe two classes on seasonal brunches, which in . . .
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October 24, 2006 05:39 PM EDT --
Serendipity --
Sunday I ended my soup marathon by making Cioppino for my mother's birthday. It turns out "cioppino" is a Genoese term for "fish stew" and the dish, no doubt, . . .
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March 08, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
It was inevitable. I've known that for quite some time and wasn't particularly avoiding it. I wasn't intimidated by the prospect, but I was waiting for something to come along that said, "Now." . . .
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August 08, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
The pulled pork I made for Dad's birthday was juicy, succulent, and packed with hickory flavor. The sauce had a tad too much vinegar in it (I've tweaked the recipe) but still set off the pork beautifully. . . .
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November 19, 2006 04:56 PM EST --
Marvelous Stuff!
Thanksgiving is America's best holiday. It's unencumbered with gifts and cards and similar commercial holiday paraphernalia. There is no long, drawn-out prelude to the holiday . . .
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November 17, 2006 12:30 PM EST --
Not the Turkey --
Here are links to a few recipes I've posted over the years that would be seriously good accompaniments to your Thanksgiving Dinner.
Appetizers:
Southern Pate -- This . . .
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September 09, 2006 03:43 PM EDT --
Not At All Tart --
P ears are in season, and it seems a perfect time to try a recipe I ran across a few months ago at myhouseandgarden.com. The recipe immediately captured my taste . . .
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