Make-ahead appetizers for Christmas Day.
These simple appetizers can easily be made ahead and can stave off the hungries before your big holiday dinner.
Tag: food
The Clara Project: pecan pie bar cookies.
This Pecan Pie Bar Cookie recipe is much easier to make than mini pecan pies, just as tasty, and a welcome addition to the holiday cookie tray.
Comfort food, Mexican-style.
On these late-fall evenings when it gets dark at 5:00, I want something for dinner that’s easy, spicy and comforting. Mexican chilaquiles is the perfect dish.
Classic chocolate eclairs.
My Grandmother Ruth’s chocolate eclairs, a family Thanksgiving favorite, are legendary. I think she’ll be OK with my sharing her recipe.
The Clara Project: an update.
Through December, I’ll be sharing recipes from the 1930s for classic Christmas cookies and desserts … recipes your mother or grandmother might have made during the holiday.
The Clara Project: Old-fashioned applesauce cake.
This easy applesauce cake is comforting and fragrant with spices; it would be wonderful at Thanksgiving as a dessert or breakfast treat.
You can do it: Easy homemade bread.
If you’ve always thought making bread from scratch was too difficult, I’m here to tell you it’s easy and fun and well worth trying.
Vintage cookbooks.
When people learn that I’m working on a vintage recipe project, they share with me their own vintage cookbooks and other family treasures.
The Clara Project: classic chicken croquettes.
This classic recipe for chicken croquettes is not at all fussy or difficult, and the results are fantastic: flavorful, crunchy and super family-friendly.
