The age-old question about whether or not to put nuts in your Banana Bread has been finally answered: Who Cares!?! We’re putting Cinnamon Chips in ours and it’s gonna be sooooo much better.
Make-Ahead Recipes
Do the work now, eat well later. These recipes can be fully prepared ahead of time, or get you most of the way there before the day you need them. Perfect for meal prep, hosting without last-minute stress, or just being smart about your week.
The Best Tomato Sauce Ever!
Isn’t it great when the Best Tomato Sauce Ever happens to also be the easiest! You’ve got an hour. You’re hungry. Let’s Eat!
La Di Da Di, We Like Biscotti
Family recipes are always so special to me….especially around the holiday season. Wrapped up in each recipe are distinctive memories of times, places and faces that have help to shape me into who I am today. Look, I don’t mean to get all melodramatic about a cookie recipe, but for me, at Christmastime, there is…
Presto! Pesto!
Don’t ask me why, but for some reason, some members of my “so-called” Italian family—who shall remain nameless—don’t like garlic. Simply shameful. To be totally accurate, let me qualify that a bit…or justify it as they do…they don’t like “too much garlic.” Now, where that falls on the scale of how much is too much…
Fat Free Ginger Cookies
I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS! Literally, I love the holidays. I love everything about them…and I especially love that moment when I hear the first Christmas song of the Season. This year, it was November 16, at right around noon; I was at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) on my way to New Orleans when I…
Beer Bread
Bread. Bread. Bread. Just saying the word makes me happy. There is nothing like the smell of fresh bread filling the house (or apartment, in my case). But who has time to bake fresh bread these days??? Umm….YOU DO! I do. We all do with THIS recipe. And once you try it, I guarantee you…