Pecan dream cookies.
When it comes to cookies, I generally have a type. If I were to sign up for a cookie-dating service, these are the characteristics I’d put into my profile: Not too sweet. Not overly complicated. Light …
Category: Dairy
Brown butter shortbread cookies.
It’s a rare recipe that’s as easy as it is fantastic, and this is one of them: brown butter brown sugar shorties. Don’t be put off by the task of browning butter; do it once, and …
Pretty homemade herb crackers.
I spotted the idea for this on the new Martha Stewart iPad app and figuratively bookmarked it to try. These little herb crackers are so pretty, and the recipe couldn’t be easier: pie dough, some fresh …
Homemade cheese straws.
What’s better than cheese and crackers? Why cheese IN a cracker, of course. For years, one of my mom’s go-to cocktail snacks has been cheese straws. They’re not complicated to make—just butter, flour, cheese, salt and …
Fall cut-out cookies.
My colleague Grace has mad baking skills and comes from an impressive line of bakers. So when we finally got a dose of baking weather recently (it’s been a long, hot summer well into October), she …
Endive, apple and walnut salad.
I carry a small Moleskine notebook with me, into which I scribble ideas and inspirations for recipes to try at home. Years ago, Rob and I were enjoying dinner at Jean-Robert’s Bistro in Cincinnati (now just …
Better than store-bought: How to make homemade butter.
Rob and I use milk from a dairy that’s about an hour southeast of Cincinnati. We first discovered Snowville Creamery at one of the Findlay Market shops, and now it’s widely available in grocery stores here. …
Summer corn and tomato pie.
There are two food-related (obsessed?) blogs that I wish I wrote: 100cookbooks.com and smittenkitchen.com. Neither fails me whenever I bookmark a recipe. So when I spotted this recipe for Tomato and Corn Pie on smittenkitchen.com earlier …
Better than store-bought: Homemade yogurt-fruit cups.
Most workdays, I brown-bag it. Occasionally I’ll take the easy route and opt for a frozen meal to be heated up in the industrial-strength microwaves in the lunchroom … in which case, I like several Kashi …
