What to do with all that leftover matzo? I have one idea – cover it in toffee, chocolate and sweet toppings and you’ll have the best leftover matzo you’ve ever had. I made an adult version and a kid friendly version. The adult version is topped with walnuts, cacao nibs and sea salt and the […]
Charoset is a combination of fruit and nuts made into a roughly chopped paste and is typically eaten on Passover. It’s a symbolic food – in color and texture – meant to remember the mortar the Israelites used when they were enslaved in Ancient Egypt. There are many ways of making charoset, including my families version. In our family recipe book, […]
What animals love carrots (it’s not a trick question!)? Bunnies, of course! So what better time to serve carrots than at Easter time when there are tons of bunnies around. I bet your little bunnies would love to eat these carrots. Mine sure did (Amelia at least since Matilda still can’t eat honey before age […]
For most of my life, I thought I was allergic to coconut after I had a very scary experience with it when I was young. As it turns out, I’m not! But when I thought I was allergic to it, I developed a strong aversion to the smell most likely as a way to tell […]
Muffins have been saving me recently because they are one food that everyone in the family will eat – a 10 month old, a 3 year old and 2 very tired parents. They are super healthy being sweetened only with fruit and have a healthy serving of carrots in each muffin making them the perfect […]
A few months ago, my friend Su made me some spring rolls from scratch and they blew me away! They were so amazingly good and I was instantly intimated by them, excited by them and determined to learn how to make them. I have to say though, the actual process of making them isn’t as […]
Here’s a great basic, fool-proof muffin recipe I’ve been using for a while. All you do is dump the ingredients together in a bowl, carefully not over mixing, add any kind of fruit, nut, candy, etc… and bake. They come out perfectly every single time and they taste amazing. Yes, you can sift the dry […]
I bought too many strawberries last week and when I realized this morning they were about to go off, I decided to bake them into muffins. I’m so glad I did! This is a basic vanilla muffin recipe with a little extract twist and a sweet strawberry surprise. They aren’t the healthiest of muffins, but they […]
I was looking to make something small for Amelia’s lunchboxes this week for Valentine’s Day and thought it would be so cute to take Brach’s Conversation Hearts and use them in a new modern way… as chocolate pretzel hearts! When I was a kid, Brach’s Conversation Hearts were a huge part of Valentine’s Day. You’d […]
Deb Perelman (AKA Smitten Kitchen) recently posted a recipe for these amazing looking black-bottom cupcakes. They’re old-school – chocolate cupcake swirled with cheesecake. They don’t have any frosting and honestly don’t need any because the cheesecake adds enough sweetness to these. Since Trevor was looking for a baking project to do over the weekend with […]