Category: Baking

First, a link to a recipe for an amazing Low-Carb Strawberry Lemon Shortcake.  I just made this for dessert tonight, and neither my husband nor I were disappointed. Most people who know me will answer if asked, that my favorite dessert of all time is Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting....

This is, without exception, my favorite chocolate cake. I was first introduced to this luscious, intensely chocolate bundt-type cake in 1995 when I picked up a copy of New Kosher Cuisine for All Seasons by Feuerstadt and Strauss.  It was a non-dairy version titled Shabbat Chocolate Cake, and it...

Sometimes I obsess about foods that I have never had before. It started when I was small, reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.” I desperately wanted to try Turkish Delight. If it was something that one ate while drinking hot cocoa, it had to be...

Some years ago a recipe ran across my radar, not just because of the name, but also because it combined three things I love – Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oreo Cookies, and Brownies. Yes, the triple-threat, the Slutty Brownie, or as some of my friends call them, Dirty Boy Brownies....

Sorry I missed yesterday’s Variations on a Theme post. It’s been a hell of a week, and things are still changing. My entire childhood was not fraught with frugality and food insecurity. When Mom and Dad were both working, we did pretty darn well. We did well enough that...

I was born and raised in Massachusetts, in a smallish town in the Connecticut River Valley (or what is known as the Pioneer Valley) called Westfield. Being born a New Englander, a child of New Englanders, a family that can trace its roots back to the Mayflower (Stranger, not...

When I was growing up my mother had the Betty Crocker cookbook, the one that came out in the 60’s and was in a three-ring binder. It was the ONLY cookbook she owned. She would purchase women’s magazines that had recipes in them, and sometimes she would make those...