Luscious cranberry curd sits atop a rich, buttery pecan shortbread for a marriage made in heaven. Best of all, this recipe uses Cape Cod Select Premium Frozen cranberries, so you can make it any time. No need to worry about buying perishable fruit! I have written before about my abiding love for cranberries - the original American berry that ...
The Pantry Project: Cooking with Kids
Thanks to Hormel Foods for inviting me to be a part of The Pantry Project: a special website with resources and ideas for stocking and cooking from our pantries while sheltering in place. While families shelter in place and try to minimize excursions to shop for food and other essentials, parents find themselves having to cook for their kids ...
Weeknight Turkey Bolognese
Thanks to ShopCaputo's for sponsoring today's post. Use Caputo's online ordering and home delivery to stay sane this holiday season! For $20 off your first order (over $60) on ShopCaputo's use the promo code WEST20. With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, the holiday season is definitely upon us. For most of us, this is the busiest time ...
How to Make Arepas
Try your hand at arepas -- easy-to-make savory Venezuelan corn cakes -- and you will want to serve them with everything! A few years ago, when I was in New York on the book tour for Food Swap, I met a lovely young woman named Mercedes, who was orginally from Venezuela. As we chatted, I asked Mercedes about arepas, a savory corn cake that I ...
Best Buttermilk Pancakes
My kids and my kids' friends love my fluffy buttermilk pancakes. They are a staple of weekend mornings and sleepovers at my house. Who needs pancake mix when they are so easy to make from scratch! At my daughter's high school, every few weeks, they have what they call a Late Arrival Wednesday. The teachers have professional development in ...
No Bake Lentil Energy Bites (Nut and Peanut Free)
No-bake lentil oat energy bites taste like an oatmeal cookie, but are packed with protein, fiber, and vitamins to keep you and your kids going all day! Nut and peanut-free to be allergy-friendly. In case my extra-nutritious banana bread -- high in protein from secret ingredient mashed red lentils -- were not enough to get my teenager to eat ...
Chicken Tinga Pasta
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BarillaFusion #CollectiveBias Today I am rethinking one of my family's favorite recipes: Chicken Tinga. Quick and easy to make, Chicken Tinga is a classic dish of shredded chicken in a tomato and chipotle chile sauce. I usually serve ...
Leek Patties for Rosh Hashanah
Leek patties, or keftes de prasa, are a classic Sephardic holiday dish. This vegetarian version is a perfect appetizer for your Rosh Hashanah table. Keftes de prasa, or leek fritters is one of those dishes that is beloved throughout the Sephardic world, especially Turkey, Greece and Romania, but little known in America, where most Jews are ...
Beets, Burrata & Blackberry Salad for Rosh Hashanah
A beautiful and balanced early fall salad with earthy beets, creamy burrata and tart blackberries over arugula in a honey vinaigrette. Perfect for your Rosh Hashanah table! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, begins at sundown on September 20. Like many new year celebrations, it is joyous and festive. All over the world, Jews will gather ...
Queen’s Jam (Raspberry and Blueberry)
Queen's Jam, a combination of raspberries and blueberries, is a classic Swedish preserve. It is also the perfect way to use the best summer berries. I write a lot about my Jewish heritage and how it influences my cooking. What I perhaps do not mention enough is that I am also part Swedish on my mother's side. My maternal grandmother was the ...
Great British Baking Show Victoria Sandwich
Make a classic British dessert from "The Great British Baking Show:" a Victoria Sandwich! Sponge cake sandwiched around layers of raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream. Do you love "The Great British Baking Show" as much as I do? Talented home bakers creating classic British desserts, expert assessment from the regal Mary Berry and the ...
Naked Peach Cake
Make the most of stone fruit season with a tender peach cake covered in peach buttercream. My daughter returned home from four weeks of overnight camp this weekend. Our little family of four has barely been all together all summer, so I wanted to celebrate. I prepared a meal of my daughter's favorite summer foods: gazpacho to start, grilled ...
Stone Fruit Ketchup
Ketchup isn't just for tomatoes anymore. Try this sweet-and-sour peach and nectarine ketchup on chicken, turkey burgers and, my favorite, sweet potato fries! Last week, I returned home to find a box of softball-sized peaches and nectarines on my doorstep courtesy of the Washington State Stone Fruit Growers. This year I am serving as a ...
Orange Cardamom Braid with Orange Honey Compound Butter
Breakfast is a special occasion with this Orange Cardamom braided challah served with a sweet Orange Honey Compound Butter. Get your citrus fix before the season ends! As citrus season winds down, I am trying to get my fix of Meyer lemons, blood oranges and all my favorite sunny, wintertime Vitamin C powerhouses before they go away. Recently ...
Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme with Candied Lemon
Who has time to make dessert on a weeknight? No one. But sometimes a special occasion, be it a birthday, anniversary, or national holiday, falls on a weeknight. What to do in that case? Turn to a dessert that is best made in advance. A dessert like pot de crème. Pot de crème is an adorable name for an adorable baked custard that is typically ...
Homemade Minestrone
Could you use a nice, comforting bowl of soup right now? I know I could. I spent the last three weekends -- three! -- traveling and the end result of six plane rides, two hotel stays, several early mornings and too many late nights is that I'm sick. I have an awful chest cold and cough and basically sound like a Brontë sister. Hack, cough, hack, ...
Shortcake with Grilled Peaches & Rosemary
I have had such a busy summer that I have barely had time to do the things I love best: shop at the farmers market, pick my own fruits and vegetables at a pick-your-own farm, and cook for friends and family. This weekend, however, we found ourselves with a blissfully unscheduled Sunday. On the spur of the moment, I invited some friends to join ...
Harissa Deviled Eggs (with no Mayo!)
A lightened up version of deviled eggs without any mayonnaise!. Have I ever mentioned that my husband hates mayonnaise? Like hates it. The number of times he has failed to eat lunch entirely because the caterer pre-mayonnaised -- yes, my husband thinks "to mayonnaise" is a verb -- all the sandwiches at some meeting is higher than it should ...
Apricot and Blueberry Galette
It pains me to say it, but my husband doesn't really care for pie. It's something about the fruit-to-pastry ratio. However, I love to make pie because it's fussy and fiddly and when you get it right, it demonstrates a lot of technique. The fact that I gravitate towards more difficult recipes probably makes me unusual among cooks. A galette, ...
Rick Bayless Summer Cooking Demonstration
Today’s post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency on behalf of Macy’s. As always, all opinions expressed herein are my own. Restauranteur, author, television star, Rick Bayless has been educating American audiences about authentic regional Mexican for decades. His restaurants are destinations for Chicagoans and tourists alike. And the city is ...
Strawberry Rhubarb Lattice Pie
It was pie as procrastination -- there is no doubt. Faced with a long list of overdue tasks and a full inbox, I chose instead to stop time and bake a strawberry rhubarb pie with a picture-perfect lattice top. The farmers market strawberries were on their last legs and the stalks of rhubarb were only getting stalkier. Email can wait. Produce ...
Quick Pickled Asparagus with Shallot and Tarragon
Thanks to Riveridge Produce for sponsoring today's post. Look for Michigan-grown Riveridge asparagus in stores this spring! The season for local Michigan asparagus is short. Too short if you love asparagus as much I do! But you can continue to enjoy asparagus for a few extra weeks by pickling them. Now, don’t panic: this recipe is for a ...
Soy Sesame Asparagus Rice Bowl
Thanks to Riveridge Produce for sponsoring today's post. Look for Michigan-grown Riveridge asparagus in stores this spring! It's finally asparagus season! Are you as happy as I am? Yes, I know that today you can buy asparagus all year round. In a world where asparagus are always available, does asparagus season have any meaning? Well, for ...
Grilled Purple Sweet Potatoes
Oh, purple. The color of royalty. The color of luxury. Ever since the world lost Prince a few weeks ago, we've been seeing purple everywhere. But purple has always been my color of choice. In fact, it's my favorite color. But until recently, I have not expressed my love of purple through food. There are simply not that many purple foods to be ...
Easter Brunch Recipe Round-Up
Easter is this Sunday and although my family is not celebrating the holiday, we do have some fun plans. We are taking advantage of the fact that the children don't have Hebrew school (because of Spring Break) and the cancellation of my husband's Sunday morning pick-up basketball game, (because of Easter) to go out to a rare family brunch! As a way ...