When preparing to test potential holiday recipes, I have a very short checklist that I go through when sorting recipes: Does it have cheese? Does it have bacon? Does it have potatoes? Does it...
It’s hard to believe that it’s already the last day of October; talk about time flying! I decided that since I kicked off October by sharing my favorite pumpkin recipes with you, I should close it...
A few weeks ago when I made the pumpkin doughnut muffins, I talked about my lack of doughnut consumption while growing up. I guess you could say I’m trying to make up for lost...
When I was a kid, the next best thing to going trick-or-treating and bringing home a huge haul of candy was pumpkin-carving night at home. We would go out as a family and pick...
Earlier this month, when I made a batch of maple-walnut ice cream, I mentioned how any mention of maple reminds of a classic episodes of Friends, as well as Buddy the Elf. Truth be...
I was never big into caramel apples when I was a kid, or even much as an adult, until a couple of years ago when my husband and I took a quick weekend trip...
This recipe for chocolate chip cookies, posted by The New York Times in 2009, has taken many food blogs by storm. Not a traditional chocolate chip cookie at all, the recipe uses a combination...
There are many recipes for chewy chocolate chip cookies floating around the universe, but Alton Brown’s was the first one that I came across that used bread flour in place of all-purpose flour. Doing...
Growing up in a very Italian family, I had eaten more than an entire town’s worth of lasagna before I was old enough to drive. My grandma made it often for Sunday dinners,...
If the words “peanut butter” and “chocolate” are listed in any recipe title, it’s a foregone conclusion that I’m going to make that recipe. Add “oats” to the list, and the recipe skyrockets to...
I think you all know me pretty well, which means you know that I have a great affinity for homemade macaroni and cheese dishes. I’ll never turn down a dish of good ol’ mac...
Growing up, my family didn’t do a lot of doughnut-eating. The popular treats were never in the house, so we’d only have them once in a while, usually if there was a function after...
