Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
Given that it is pumpkin season and that we bought by mistake a big tub of sour cream instead of cottage cheese, I thought a sour cream snack cake involving pumpkin was in order for the kids. Snack cake, coffee cake, 9 x 13 pan cake, tray bake–not sure what to call this genre of […]
It’s the middle of fall, and we missed the short Italian prune plum season for the third year in a row. These plums are fantastic for making homemade preserves and also for incorporating into desserts. While we won’t have plum preserves again this year, we can still snack on those big red or black (purple?) […]
When fall rolls around, pumpkins catapult to the top of the ingredients list–at least for baking. No matter what critics say about the overuse of the American pumpkin-spice mixture, it is a brilliant combination of flavors, and I never tire of it. It wouldn’t be fall without it. Nor would pumpkin bread. The kids never […]
My son was turning 11 years old, so it was time again for me to roll up my sleeves and create his favorite of all time birthday cake. To sum up this gem of a recipe: It’s a cake with regular chocolate cake layers (each cut in half to make 4 layers), but spread with […]
Halloween has become a day for kids young and old to indulge in sweets and dress up in strange costumes and be spooky or funny or whatever. The ultra commercialized Halloween of today only represents a small blip in Halloween’s centuries-old history. It precedes the religious holidays of All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day. […]