Weird, I know, but when I was sniffing around the interwebs looking for inspiration for a Valentine’s Day dessert, I wasn’t thinking chocolate. I wanted something a little different, something fruit-based. I spotted a photo of …
I posted back in May of this year about finding the perfect homemade granola recipe after much sampling and experimenting. And just to prove that cooking is, indeed, one big experiment, I’ll share a seasonal revamp …
In most of the U.S., strawberries are an early- to late-spring crop. But some growers also plant “everbearing” varieties that produce fruit well into summer. Those secondary crops are beginning to show up in farmers’ markets …
Where is it written that a girl can’t bake her own birthday cake? And who says it has to be a quote-unquote cake at all, really? Why not shortcakes, topped with luscious summer fruit? Absolutely. And …
I’ve been seeing lots of recipes this summer for iced drinks made with fruit and green tea, variations on lemonade, and different kinds of agua fresca (water flavored with fruit or even cucumber). They all look …
I grossly overshot when I purchased the fruit to make homemade blueberry jam last weekend. Pauvre moi. (Poor me.) So I asked Rob to come up with a blueberry-infused summer cocktail suitable for the July Fourth …
As I’ve found myself in complete control of my own schedule this summer for the first time in, like, a zillion years, I’ve been doing things I’ve long wanted to do but never seemed to have …
While visiting my brother, Bill, in Chicago last summer, I had occasion to try something new: burrata cheese. It rocked my world. What’s burrata? Imagine that fresh mozzarella, fresh ricotta and cream all partied together. Burrata …
Hard to admit, but I’ve never before made strawberry jam that I’ve processed in jars. As a kid, I’d go strawberry-picking with the family and we’d make freezer jam (super easy!). But I haven’t done the …
