4.9 / 5 Stars | 9 Reviews
by Paula
“This is a super easy, very tasty relish recipe that improves with refrigeration. It’s a great way to use summer corn and other fresh garden vegetables, and tastes great with a variety of meals. Present one of the colorful jars to a friend!”
Q: I love cinnamon in coffee, but even when I add cinnamon to the coffee after brewing, I still end up with a gunky mess in the cup and not much cinnamon flavor! I have not found an answer to how I can add the cinnamon during brewing and not have a gummy mess?
The book: Sugar Rush by Johnny Iuzzini
The angle: A whole pastry school course, rolled up in one super-fun cookbook.
Recipes for right now: Ginger Spice Ice Cream, Chocolate Soufflé, Espresso Marshmallows, Chipotle Churros, Jamaican Christmas Cake, Vanilla Sponge Cake, Butternut Maple Blondies, Chocolate-Caramel Tart
Who would enjoy this book? Home bakers who want to learn the ropes while also making some killer treats.
What’s not to love about apples? They’re colorful and sturdy enough to carry around all day. They’re a healthy snack, and delicious raw, baked, or even cooked into sauce. We’ve gathered together our best tips on shopping, storing, and cooking the popular fruit that always graces our fruit basket!
Not 10 seconds after I hit “publish” on Tuesday’s fall-toush salad, pretty much out of the clear blue sky, wherever it might be hiding, I simultaneously began craving carrot cake, feeling vaguely annoyed that we didn’t have any around (because I haven’t made it in six years, maybe?) and more pressingly for the breadth of this site, why I didn’t have what I’d consider a go-to recipe for the kind of hearty, craggy thud of a carrot cake loaf I want more of in my life. Sure, there’s a carrot cake cupcake/layer cake in the archives, but it’s a featherweight, for swirls of cream cheese frosting and birthday candle. I wanted breakfast/afternoon snack carrot cake, the kind that comes in thick slices and toasts well with salted butter. In my mind, they’re different. And my mind, as you can gather, ponders these things a lot.
So, I conferred with my husband — I don’t want to shock you, but I am not always the motivated, enthusiastic person and quite often just a little “yeah, please make it!” from the spouse or kid will trigger me into putting vague cooking notions into action — and he thought it was a great idea but he requested “none of that raisin/nuts/pineapple stuff in it.” Except, uh, he didn’t say “stuff.” Now, I know this might crush those of you who love a busy, cluttered carrot cake most of all, but I don’t think you’ll miss them here.
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4.41 / 5 Stars | 301 Reviews
by CRISTINA GOMEZ
“These spicy Italian cookies are the perfect accompaniment for cocoa or coffee during the holiday season! Serve with lemon curd or drizzle with lemon flavored almond bark for a special treat.”
Q: I recently moved into a new home with a pantry!
My husband and I are having a disagreement as to what should go in the pantry — he thinks the pantry should be solely for food and I think it should be a mixture of both food and dishes.
Now that orange bitters (along with a host of other varieties) have made their big, recent comeback onto the cocktail scene, there are suddenly a welcome wealth of options to choose from when stocking your personal bar. Discerning spirits shops and specialty-food stores have begun carving out shelf space for these diminutive bottles, making them more available to the budding cocktail enthusiast.