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Sam has been chosen as Student of the Week, which means she gets to bring in whatever snack she wants to for the class on Friday. I saw these Snickerdoodle Party Cookies in the December, 2018 issue of Bon Appetit, […]
These might possibly be my favorite cookies ever. On the planet. A little salt, some brown sugar, oats and chocolate. They are amazing. Recipe here: Crispy Salty Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies. Related posts: Crispy Salted Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies Recipe: […]
One of our favorite cakes to make is the Swedish Visiting Cake. Today, we added lavender to it. You can find the recipe here: Swedish Visiting Cake. Related posts: Happy Birthday Greg! Swedish Visiting Cake Sam Advances in Her […]
All I wanted to do was bake. A little afternoon activity with Samantha. I was just poking around the internet, looking for something to make, and I found this. I fell, and I fell hard. Salt? Oatmeal? Brown sugar? Come […]
There’s something very Christmas-y about baking a loaf of pumpkin bread. It fills the house with the aroma of those winter-warm spices while it’s cooking, and afterwards, becomes the oh-I’ll-just-sneak-a-taste snack cake you just need to have lying around over […]
What to do with an impressive pear harvest? Well, pear sauce, for sure (that recipe is coming), and some kind of dessert. Right? Right. Pear upside down cake it is, then. I liked this recipe from Food & Wine’s Thanksgiving […]
Once again, Dorie Greenspan is a genius. This simple, plain blueberry cake is easy and delicious. Dorie considers it good for breakfast, lunch or brunch, but tell you what: it’s nice with a bit of ice cream on top after […]
A snowy Saturday at the farm, so Samantha and I take to the kitchen. On the agenda, peanut butter blondies, from a sweet new cookbook called Wintersweet that focuses on the flavors of winter. Normally I just give Sam a […]
The recipe is at the end of the post. But first, a few pots, some lemon juice, a couple tablespoons of hazelnuts, and a spatula of cake batter, and you’ve got quite a New Year’s morning on your hands! […]
Well, she’s a little young yet. But she really likes what parts she can do! After a dreadful afternoon of crying, crying, crying, she settled down enough to quite enjoy a little rolling and cutting. We tried gingerbread. It was […]
I never thought I could make bread! Not that this is real bread… it’s just rolls. But still! I made rolls! Ingredients. I was inspired by this stunning photo in Bon Appetit, my new Bible, and thought I’d try them […]
Dorie Greenspan’s Baking book is a real treasure. Take this little gem, for instance, which gets its name from her friend Ingela’s mother, who used to “claim that you could start making it when you saw guests coming up the […]
This cornbread recipe by Ruth Reichl was super-easy and came out great the very first time. I’m rewriting it to double it, though, because hers is more for corn muffins and I am just never going to make corn muffins. […]
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, so Samantha and I are making Chocolate-Orange Madeleines. Well, I am making Chocolate-Orange Madeleines. Samantha is banging her big spoon on the metal bowl. I must admit, this was not my favorite recipe, though, so I […]
I promised on my Pinterest page: I will make this Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake recipe! Here it is. Not hard at all and well worth the 20 minutes it took. Sam even helped. Related posts: Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies Recipe: […]
For Saint Patrick’s Day, Tom made a loaf of Irish Soda Bread, and it was utterly delicious. Not too sweet, not too dry. Best part is that the recipe comes from his grandmother, who was from County Kerry. He was […]
What a sweet winter treat. With all the Red Cooper grapefruit we’ve been eating — and drinking — I took a cue from Irene and candied some of the peel. What a way to make the citrus season last even […]
I’m a huge fan of Dorie Greenspan’s recipes. So when I came across one that sounded just perfect for this Christmas — do-ahead but still festive — I jumped. Her Honey-Spiced Madeleines, found in Around My French Table, also have […]
Food and Wine’s latest issue has a story about a new book with a good cause: Cookies for Kids Cancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook. Author Gretchen Holt-Witt’s son was suffering from pediatric cancer, and she baked 96,000 cookies one holiday […]
SCF fans might say, “What? Another plum tart recipe? The one from Ina Garten isn’t good enough?” Well, indeed it is. But like any curious cook, sometime we like to see what else is out there. Some people might call […]
This fancy lemon tart with a surprise layer of chocolate hiding beneath its sheen has become somewhat of a tradition at Easter dinner. It’s just so darn festive, isn’t it? The original recipe, from Suzanne Goin’s Sunday Suppers at Lucques, […]
Pâte Sucrée is a sweet, short — that is, it doesn’t rise — pastry that’s buttery, flaky and a little brittle — perfect for filling with custards and meringues. It’s nice to use as a base for fresh fruit with […]
Just in case my Boozy Orange-Vanilla Flan was a failure, I wanted a back-up dessert to take to Irene’s Seder. I came across this recipe for Decadent Fudge Brownies on Epicurious, and Wow. Wow is it easy, wow is it […]
I wonder, really, if there’s anything I love the taste more of than burnt sugar. I think the first time I realized this — besides my many instances with packaged caramels and cotton candy — was at age 11 at […]
So we had a lovely little dessert the other night at the Ranch: “Peggy’s Pound Cake.” I loved the texture, and the flavor had just a little extra oomph that I found really livened it up. I posted about it, […]
This December, I worked with a chef at the Culinary Institute of America to put together a holiday cookie article. He came up with the recipes, and we asked for variations on those. So with three basic doughs, you ended […]
These are very easy and fast to put together. The recipe comes from Martha Stewart, and it’s really tasty. I skimped on the cayenne, afraid some people would find them too spicy. Don’t. It barely registered. You need the full amount. […]
I love Sand Tarts, the cookies also know as Mexican Wedding Cakes. So when I saw a variation of them over on Smitten Kitchen that used — of all things! — chestnuts, I knew I had to give it a […]
I have found a gold standard for crisps: a nutty, dark topping with plenty of oats and nuts, and a snappy, bright filling with lemon and ginger. I just love the contrasts of both tastes — high notes of lemon […]
The first blueberry cobbler I did this summer was completely made from our own blueberries. Of course that one was the best; not even the farmers market berries taste as good as ones you grow yourself. But this recipe is […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
