Tag: desserts

Some recipes sneak up on you. You get a cookbook or a magazine, you read through it in a leisurely fashion, maybe try a recipe or two, and set it aside. A …

Pop Quiz: What do you make when it's 95 degrees outside, the very thought of turning on the oven makes you melt into a syrupy mess and yet you're craving a delicious, starchy, baked-good …

Is there anything more wholesome than pie? The very word brings a smile to one's face, and it's associated with all sorts of pleasant things -- someone who is sweet as pie (or a …

I am woefully behind in posting my Daring Baker's challenge this month, and I am woefully behind in doing it as well. But this weekend I finally screwed my courage to the sticking point …

I'm not much of a summer cook. I like to cook the foods of cooler weather -- spicy gingerbreads, hearty stews, root vegetables that stick to your ribs. Summer, at least in Los …

It's become fashionable or a mark of pride to eschew recipes. You'll hear many cooks boasting of how they never use a recipe, or they just use techniques they know on whatever they have …

Have I ever mentioned that I am a raging Anglophile? I jealously hoard Colman's mustard, studied abroad in London, wrote my undergraduate thesis on franchise reform in Parliament, and pepper my speech with phrases like …