I love eating ice cream any time of year, but during a particularly hot summer like the one we’re having, it becomes necessary as a food s...

It is August, so it’s no real surprise that it’s exceptionally hot outside. But maybe because we’d gotten lucky with comparatively milder ...

How do you change the direction of 100 years of family cooking while honoring the traditions? That’s what Alice Randall and her daughter C...

I remember a conversation with a friend many years ago. We were talking about recipes and cookbooks, vegetarian cooking in particular, and...

It had been months, actually almost two years, since I saw Dan Lepard’s Peanut Chile Bread , and it was high time I tried making it. But, ...

I admit that I'm a huge geek about keeping files of recipes from years and years of food publications. These are physical, paper files o...

Baking cookies, most cookies anyway, is supposed to be easy. There aren’t too many things that can go wrong with making cookie dough, formin...

This looked a sure-fire idea when I saw it in the January issue of Living magazine. There’s no way a mix of salty pretzels, creamy, fresh ...

You might not think there would be much to learn at a cooking class about cookies, but that really depends on who’s teaching the class. I si...

We’ve gone out to the desert again. When we plan a vacation, more often than not we choose to go back to the desert to hike in the rocky lan...

You know I love it when I get to bake some cookies and then promptly get them out of my house. I don’t need those little, tempting treats si...

I think I’ve started a tradition, and I think it’s a good one. You see, every year my spinning instructor starts dropping hints about his bi...

For special occasions, I like to sends friends off from our house with a little something, a goodie bag if you will. Sometimes it’s just a f...