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 […]
I volunteered to make a cake for a Halloween-themed party. Kids would be there and adults. Something scary would not work. Something too kiddy-like also would not work. I settled on an orange-black themed cake with a spider-web top. There were a lot of steps to get through, though luckily, the steps were pretty easy, A […]
Spring is just around the corner. Cut tulips are popping up in the flower sections of grocery stores. Once last shot to make pumpkin bread before I get strange looks. I suppose the end of fall should mark the end of pumpkin bread, but that rule doesn’t work in my house, especially if I’m baking […]