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

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

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

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