When I was an assistant cookbook editor at HarperCollins, my boss and I used to put a box of "freebie" cookbooks outside our offices each December, and our coworkers would descend on it like wolves. People love to give and receive cookbooks around the holidays! But it can be difficult to find the ...
Archives for November 2015
Easy White Pizza with Brussels Sprouts
Do you have any leftover Brussels sprouts? Good. Here's what to do. Get up from your computer (or, more likely, put down your iPhone) and go look in your fridge. Do you have any leftover roasted Brussels sprouts? Or any cooked vegetables at all, for that matter? You do? Yes! Then you are ...
Stuffed Mushrooms with Hazelnuts, Kale and Gruyere
Pop quiz: what's the perfect bite with a glass of wine? The answer: these baby bella mushrooms stuffed with hazelnuts, kale, and a mountain of grated Gruyere. Pour me a big glass of pinot and I could seriously devour the entire tray myself. I'm not a huge fan of gut-busting appetizers that ...
Cornbread Coffee Cake
Are there two more beautiful words together than coffee and cake? I honestly can't think of any. I'm pretty much always in the mood for one or the other, or both. Let's talk specifically about this coffee cake, which is a mashup of two of my favorite things. First up, cornbread. When I ...
Chocolate Espresso Pecan Toffee
Somebody needs to come over and save me from this candy. It's dangerous. Like, deep, dark, and ever so slightly bitter dangerous. We're sort of obsessed with Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream over here. Only, really what I'm obsessed with is digging out all the insanely ...
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Brownie Pie
The expression "easy as pie" has always struck me as somewhat peculiar. I've never found pie all that simple. When I was writing The Boozy Baker, the pies and tarts chapter was by far the most difficult. First there was the matter of the crust: rolling it out, transferring it to the baking dish in ...
10 Apple Recipes for Thanksgiving
Of course, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without apple pie. But there are so many other ways to enjoy apples this holiday! Here is a roundup of ten of my favorite apple recipes. Let's kick things off with a cocktail, shall we? Improved Maple Leaf Cocktail. For an appetizer, try Ina's ...
Roasted Parsnip Pear Puree
Does anyone even eat white potatoes anymore? I mean, of course French fries. And next month we will be making latkes, I promise. But somewhere along the line, it seems, we came to the collective realization that it's pointless to eat plain old mashed potatoes when we could be having ...
Swiss Chard Puttanesca
Do you like anchovies? I remember having a temper tantrum as a little kid because my mom ordered a half cheese, half anchovy pizza from our local Papa Gino's. Even though the anchovies were contained to one side of the pie, I was sure that their essence had permeated the entire ...
Lemon Meringue Sweet Potatoes
You know that sweet potato casserole you make every year for Thanksgiving? The super sugary one topped with mini marshmallows? I get that it's tradition and all that, but I have a better idea. It starts with roasted sweet potatoes whipped with nutmeg, fresh lemon juice and lemon zest, ...
