Recipes – Page 2 – The Well-Cooked Life

Small batch, ruby apricot jam in glass Weck jars. Phenomenal alone or pressed into a grilled cheese sandwich. Or slathered

Quick, Single-Batch Blueberry Jam

Classically addictive. Wild blueberries, with hints of vanilla & cinnamon. Buy blueberries in season if you can and freeze them

Seville Orange Marmalade

Seville oranges have a high pectic content which makes these preserves have a good set – AKA it isn’t runny.

I don’t talk on the phone while driving (nor do I text, but that should be a given, right?). However,

My almost-11-year-old is compiling a wish list for his birthday. He wants a drum set (this would help but not

The Youngest: When will I be a baby again? Me: You won’t. You only get to be each age once.

I’m not a shopper. I’m the kind of person who runs into a store as though under time clock pressure,

Were we on a break? I didn’t intend for us to part. And yet…summer passed with nary a recipe. Why?

When we have a date – that is, a night out without one kid doing a funny though inappropriate rap

From the 5-year-old a few night ago: Him: [In bed, blushing] I have an idea! Me: [in doorway] Oh, yeah?

Inspiration comes in all shapes, sizes, songs, and ways. Even misery. My writer friend, B, has been moaning about publishing

Perhaps you’ve wondered about the timing of recipes, how I get the photographs, if I plan everything out. Perhaps not.

I had two buns in the oven – no, no, NOT another human baby. Book babies. I have a novel

Dear Scott Baio, Thanks for appearing in my dream last night! The party was really fun, even though the staircase

Italian White Bean Spread & Birds

The big news around our house is that Will turned 5 last week and, perhaps to celebrate, two chickadees have

If I were to make a list of life’s necessities for my kids, my friend, Heather, would be in the

This is a typical bedtime scene: Julia (age 7 3/4): Can I have a song? Me: Which one? J: Met

Hello! NO, you didn’t imagine it – it has been a while…Reason? You want reasons? Okay… My oldest son and

So, my latest novel, co-written with the witty and wonderful Brendan Halpin, is nominated for a Rainbow Award. Exciting news!

Spring in the UK comes early, and when I brought my daughter to see her godmother in London it was