The Last Salad of Summer Combine the last of the sweet summer farm market fruits with a few tropical flavors, dress it with a sweet-tart orange dressing—and there you have it, the best of both w...Read More
Camembert Tart This is one of those last-minute supper ideas—not quite a frittata, not quite a pastry tart. With elements of both, using what you probably already have on hand, and with about a 12-m...Read More
Crisp Crunchy Baked Tomatoes Finally cool enough to crank up the oven for a few minutes. And you’ve maybe had enough cold tomato sandwiches for a while. There are still some really good late-summer ...Read More
Medieval Hypocras Last of the Summer Wine—Part 1 Strawberry wine! This beautiful beverage could easily be the original May-December relationship. An ancient French liqueur, it has all the zip of a f...Read More
Bokharat—Arabic 7-Spice Grinding spices as part of food prep is having a very long moment—although its been part of many food cultures for centuries. Not so hard to figure out spicy, hot, or s...Read More
Sweet Pepper and Orange Jam This is a basic quick jam recipe for small amounts of fruit. berry or vegetable jam to use as a condiment. To speed things along, start the process in the microwave....Read More
Mrs. Loobner’s Banana Bread Who can forget Gilda Radner’s characters? And didn’t almost all of us know a Mrs. Loobner, of banana bread fame? The banana bread thing on TV seems to live on—like ...Read More
Six-hour French Onion Soup Ah, the joy of French onion soup—the aroma, the bread, the cheese. Happy memories of slipping into a Parisian bistro on a cold windy March night—sliding the heavy vestib...Read More
HALF SOUR PICKLES After years of zesty but vinegar-y Heinz and Mount Olive—kept trying to find the taste of those pickles in a barrel I remembered from way back. Finally discovered that the very...Read More
Great (EASY) Chicken Wings February barbecue, anybody? Starting to watch folks in down jackets firing up the cookers—desperate for wings and a beer, and Spring! But for anyone still shoveling snow o...Read More