Archive for the ‘Just Desserts’ Category
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
I love this cake. I think of it as a dessert for a minor event, like when a couple of girlfriends come over for dinner or I’m celebrating an insignificant birthday, say, turning forty-three. (Okay, fine, so that happened a while ago.) Read More
Tags: easy cake recipes, farmers market fruits, plum desserts, summer desserts
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Monday, June 9th, 2014
I went to the Farmers’ Market on Saturday and I believe I snapped. I bought so many berries, the berry guy can send his daughter to college on his profits. I bought so many berries I got a flat tire on the way home. I bought so many berries I really have no option but to make several desserts and possibly some jam. Read More
Tags: berry recipe, blueberry crisp, farmers' market recipe, summer fruit
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
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Monday, January 27th, 2014

Although it’s 43º in NYC today, it was certainly not so balmy last week. After a brisk walk in the 7º weather, I found myself with a serious interest in comfort food.
Now I’m back in LA where it is sickeningly beautiful every day (with temps hovering around 70º) but I still feel the need for the comfort. I think I’m suffering from a sort of cold-weather-related PTSD. Read More
Tags: cold snap, comfort food, nytimes recipes, sandwich cookies
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
A couple days before Christmas, my sister and I were having our annual bitch-in about all the kitchen time we were putting in that week, when Lindsay mentioned she was making a Clementine Cake. I assumed this was something akin to a Key Lime Pie. “Sounds great,” I said, mentally dismissing it as way too Florida for a proper holiday dessert, and likely way too complicated for a week with cooking chores so numerous I was already as irritable as Scrooge. Read More
Tags: Christmas dinner, clementine recipe, dairy free desserts, gluten free dessert
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Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Revisiting recipes from The Crabby Cook Cookbook, we made these for a crowd and watched them vanish in five minutes… Read More
Tags: brownie recipe, cocktail peanuts, cocoa powder recipe, peanut desserts
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

Okay, I’m a little obsessed with shortbread. Don’t know why really, but possibly because of my Scottish ancestry and also it tastes so damn good. So maybe I’m projecting too much when I assume that my mother would like nothing better than this for Mother’s Day. Read More
Tags: easy dessert recipe, mothers day gifts, orange pecan shortbread, shortbread recipe
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
In the unlikely event that you have not yet broken your New Year’s resolutions regarding calories, sugar, chocolate, dessert and general self-indulgence, now’s the time to do it. This recipe from Ina Garten makes it easy. Read More
Tags: barefoot contessa cake recipe, chocolate dessert, ina garten black and white angel food cake, Valentines day gift idea
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
My sister-in-law, Julie, is an amazing cook and food stylist and writes a column for The Baltimore Sun called “The Recipe Finder.” When I saw her at Thanksgiving, she was—having just cooked all week for her lazy-ass family—beginning prep for the column’s annual Holiday Cookie Contest. Read More
Tags: baltimore sun cookie contest, christmas cookies, dairy-free cookie recipe, morrocan treats, wedding cookie
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
So as the days of summer dwindled, so did my supply of summer fruit. The bowl that I filled on Thursday with the bounty from the farmers’ market was down to a few lonely items by Labor Day. Read More
Tags: berry recipes, blueberry dessert, fruit compote, recipe for fruit toppings
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