Category: Recipes

The night my father died, I made dinner. It was a new recipe I was trying, a salad of roasted root vegetables, topped with a salmon filet, broiled in mustard. It was in …

It’s time for celebrating! A year has passed that has had its ups and downs, but now we have a whole new year in which to make mistakes, achieve great things, laugh a lot, love …

<a title="Prosciutto Gruyere Appetizers" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5303570373/"><img class="aligncenter" alt="Prosciutto Gruyere Puff Pastry Appetizers" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5303570373_b51e15b4a7.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />And these hors d'oeuvres might be my new favorite form of excess. They are fabulous - buttery and crisp and …

The Christmas season is an exciting time for mail. Instead of the usual bills and solicitations (though there are plenty of those), each day's post brings cards from friends, and my guilty pleasure -- Christmas …

It's Christmas time, and I've been baking cookies like a madwoman. There has to be something to leave out for Santa, after all. Yet despite all the baking, we don't have any cookies …

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have gathered that when it comes to Christmas food, I'm a traditionalist. We've had the same meal for Christmas dinner every year …

One upon a time, long ago, a fair maiden embarked upon a journey across the seas to study arts and letters with great minds of her age. On her journey, she encountered a knight, …