Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
This is probably ranking as my no. 1 coffee cake recipe so far. It results in the best tasting peach-blueberry cake EVER. I can’t emphasize this point enough. In my family, half of it was eaten by just two people within 15 minutes of serving. I had to hide the rest away so that the […]
Summertime means seeing a whole host of fruits that I would generally not see in the stores for the rest of the year. Stone fruits are the ones I look forward to most: peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums. Yummy, yummy fruits that make their appearance for only a couple of months during the year. And […]
While I am a fan of quick breads and Bundt cakes, particularly the ones that include chocolate chips, I am becoming more and more attracted to Polish-style coffee/snack cakes. What could be so different? First and foremost, Polish coffee cakes tend to be low in the sugar department. Yet they still taste good. There are […]
It must have been about 20 years ago by now. I was sitting at a tiny cafe table at the famous Café du Monde in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It was very early in the morning when the town was still quiet and only a few people were winding their way through the […]
We’ve had a Vitamix® super duper blender for a few years. We used to use it for making those healthy green smoothies that were so popular back then. As it took about 40 minutes to prepare the vegetables and fruits to make those green smoothies, we still felt hungry after drinking them, and the smoothies […]