Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
I have a recurring fascination with pumpkin. Some varieties can grow to be huge. And the smallest varieties are just plain cute. I have been to local fall festivals where tons of post-Halloween pumpkins that have been thrown away get to participate in the annual “pumpkin drop” and “pumpkin toss.” Statistics from the USDA show that in […]
It was a week after I baked my Polish Plum Cake, and the kids started asking for more. I only had a handful of large plums remaining from our Costco stockpile–didn’t seem to be enough to bake another cake. I was curious to see whether there is a German equivalent, given that Poland and Germany are […]
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 […]