Savory Pumpkin Bread with Chestnuts
My friend Claire challenged me to come up with recipes that call for kari gosse, a spicy curry powder blend devised by a Breton apothecary in Lorient, a city in southern Britt [...]
Halloween Pumpkin Squares
I have been making this recipe for something like 30 years now – the original version comes from one of the first cookbooks I ever owned. It has been such a favorite that I ev [...]
Spicy Gingerbread
When and why did gingerbread get pigeonholed as a *strictly* holiday treat? Sure, I get that all things gingerbread are a holiday tradition, but must that mean that they vani [...]
Zucchini Pickles
After polishing off the better part of a friend’s jar of zucchini pickles all by myself, I set about to make my own. Hers were a touch too sweet for my taste, so I halved the [...]
Lemon Lover’s Frosting
This frosting has at least three times the amount of lemon juice most recipes of the other recipes I’ve seen call for. It has a tart hit like a lemon curd or lemon meringue p [...]
Favorite Chocolate Cake
The original version of this cake was a Sour Cream Chocolate Cake from San Francisco à la Carte, a cookbook I purloined from my Mom’s kitchen shelf as soon as I moved out on [...]
Fennel Tapenade
Take two favorite foods—braised fennel and olive tapenade—put them together, and what do you get? Total lusciousness in a cocktail spread. The braised fennel blends up creamy [...]
Perfection V/GF Cookies
These are everything a chocolate chip cookie should be: crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, with a decent dose of vanilla and the rich, caramel flavor of brown sugar. [...]
Nori Mashed Potatoes
You might not think of nori as a French ingredient, but the seaweed can be found on rocks along the coast and has been cultivated on seaweed farms around Brittany for decades [...]