October Recipe of the Month-Brownies Cockaigne & Tahini Brownies For many years, my go-to recipe for homemade brownies was Brownies Cockaigne from The Joy of Cooking. For me, no mix could hold a candle to that. But times change, mixes got better, and I got to a point where I just wasn’t able to spend … Continue reading
It’s so much fun to judge pies when they’re made with good JerseyFresh fruit! Last Saturday I joined fellow judges Frank Benowitz, Pam Parseghian, and Pat Tanner at the West Windsor Community Farmers Market for their annual blueberry pie contest. There were six entrants and we got to work just after 11:00 am, finishing up maybe … Continue reading
LiLLiPiES (photos below) has just opened in the Princeton Shopping Center and life is all the sweeter for it. Owner Jen Carson has been building her customer base for years, through special orders, farmers markets, and sales to area eateries (listed on her website), and you can learn all about her background in Pat Tanner’s excellent … Continue reading
Yay for leftovers and odds and ends! This rice pudding is a case in point. I had leftover basmati rice from a restaurant meal several days ago and whole milk about to expire. Voilà! The rice had a few cumin seeds in it so I added several green cardamom pods (my current favorite spice) and … Continue reading
The food and dining scene at the Princeton Shopping Center is about to get sweeter. LiLLiPiES Bakery, a longtime fixture and favorite at area farmers’ markets and cafés, will open for business on July 1. Their location is on the Harrison Street side inside the central breezeway across from The Taco Truck. Summer hours will … Continue reading
I’ve gone from being so caught up to being woefully behind, due to an editing project I’ve taken on for a friend’s cookbook. So, here, with almost no explanation is a roundup of some of what I enjoyed in April. Briefly: spiced nuts, casseroles at Hot Wok Cafe, chocolate-orange bread pudding, a kitchen sink cookie from … Continue reading
Ever since I read (here) about the toasted halva sandwiches served up at Seed+Mill in the Chelsea Market, I’d been racking my brain trying to remember where I’d had a similar sandwich. It only came to me as I was on the phone with Janinka at Seed+Mill, discussing an order of tahini (milled in house) and several … Continue reading
This all started because I had some pricey “European Style” sour cream from the Whole Earth Center to use up. It was just too good to waste. So I googled, and found a recipe on food52.com for Sour Cream Cardamom Pear Cake. As I started making the recipe, I noticed my butter and sugar were … Continue reading
I had Chinese, Japanese, Mexican (my own guac), Italian, American style comfort food, and more. Meyer lemon preserves turned out well (though next time I need to make thinner slices), and I surprised myself by using up every bit of a too-thick and too-tomato-y bean and broccoli soup I’d made. I roasted some parsnips, which … Continue reading
Normally I would have baked at least a batch of Christmas cookies by now. But I just haven’t been up for anything at all involved in the kitchen, so I indulged myself by making my very simple stand-by chocolate bread pudding. I usually use egg knot rolls for this, but had noted recipes online that use … Continue reading
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