Category: family favorites
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Passover/Spring Recipe Roundup
Spring – the word that would not be named herein the Northeast. But now we can say it and – with the new sunshine – eat spring foods, too. The kids are finally in the yard (granted, the yard is a mix of brown leaves and old green, decorated with dog-chewed soccer balls) and the… Read more
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Kale Salad with Apples, Red Onion, & Sunflower Seeds & Stopping Time
First thing’s first – this salad is for kale lovers and haters alike. It takes five minutes to prepare and can be meal on its own, made into a messy sandwich, added to an omelet, or served on the side of whatever else you’re having. Plus, it’s pretty and healthy and if you need to… Read more
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Best Vegan Coconut Bread or Muffins & Custom Recipes
One friend wanted a coconut bread recipe. Another wanted a dairy-free coconut “dessert thing.” Oldest son, now 14 and able to devour entire continents of food daily, especially post-soccer, pleaded for “a giant coconut thing filled with coconut topped with more coconut.” And my old friend, Cris, came to visit from her goat farm Central… Read more
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Latkes (Crispy Potato Pancakes) & Wish Lists
My kids make wishlists for birthdays and for Chanukah. They write them unaided, and it is always interesting to see what they come up with. Sure, we have some typical stuff, Itunes gift card request or Lego Giant Something that requires a mortgage to purchase, but we also have some strange themes this year. When… Read more
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Galley Cookies (thin, chewy, crispy cookies with chocolate, pretzels, and candy) aka Leftover Candy Cookies
Do you have miniature ghosts or Taylor Swifts or zombies coming to your door tomorrow? Do you end up with four leftover bags of candy or go through your child’s bag for their rejects (pretzels? Who gave me pretzels?). If so, these cookies will help. Eve if it’s not Halloween and you have bits of… Read more
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Red Onion, Tomato, Double Cheese Galette with Corn & Garbanzo Crust
This started as many recipes do, with good intentions…until I reached for the wrong flour. Is there an incorrect one? I guess. If you’re making traditional chocolate chip cookies, for example, and you use chickpea flour, maybe the results aren’t what you wanted. But for this gallette, the garbanzo bean flour wound up in my… Read more
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Chocolate Crunch Bars (aka Homemade Gourmet Kit-Kats)
Sometimes I see a recipe and immediately know it’s something I have to try. Only, most of the time when I get around to making it, I wind up deciding to change a few things here and there or swap out one item for another based on what I have on hand or what’s in… Read more
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Ribs (cooked slow and low) & the Only BBQ Sauce You Need
Don’t let summer go just yet. Or, if you have to, remind yourself that the taste of it can be had quite easily. If I’m making this on a school day…I wrap the ribs the night before and make the sauce*(and I make a lot because it keeps and works on tofu, shrimp, chicken)… As… Read more
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Classic Raspberry Jam
Deep ruby, sweet, and utterly enjoyable with a slice of buttery brown bread or alongside crackers. Read more
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Quick, Single-Batch Blueberry Jam
Classically addictive. Wild blueberries, with hints of vanilla & cinnamon. Buy blueberries in season if you can and freeze them – almost all blueberry desserts work just as well with frozen fruit and this jam does, too. Read more
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Italian Apple Tart with Salted Caramel Sauce & The Circle
The Youngest: When will I be a baby again? Me: You won’t. You only get to be each age once. Him: Right. Unless you be a circle. Then you just keep coming back. L’chaim! Read more
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Honey Cake & Things You Don’t Want to Fall out of Your Pants
I’m not a shopper. I’m the kind of person who runs into a store as though under time clock pressure, grabs the item in question, tries on twelv pairs, likes one, buys it, and leaves. And yet when it came time to try on jeans, I still found myself pondering… -When did we all decide… Read more
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Best Noodle Pudding (Kugel) & Welcome Back (Rosh Hashana, School, Fall)
Were we on a break? I didn’t intend for us to part. And yet…summer passed with nary a recipe. Why? Because I was too busy listening to the just-turned-5-year-old breathlessly tell me he has a new pet. “What is it?” “A worm.” He is young enough that he still pronounces it “warhm”. “Quick – come… Read more
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Sorrel Labne (Lemony Yogurt Dip) & Breaking Up
From the 5-year-old a few night ago: Him: [In bed, blushing] I have an idea! Me: [in doorway] Oh, yeah? Him: Come here. I go and sit next to him and he wraps his arms around me, using his super-human strength (really, he is oddly strong) to pull my ear to his lips. Him: [whispering]… Read more
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Sriracha & Garlic Hummus & My New Farm Share
Inspiration comes in all shapes, sizes, songs, and ways. Even misery. My writer friend, B, has been moaning about publishing and how difficult it is to keep writing without commercial success, or even wondering what success means personally. Do I have the answers? No, I do not. But…I do have Sriracha. And B loves this… Read more