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Homemade Peppermint Patties
How much fun is it to discover you can make – in your very own kitchen – your favorite treat in the world, say peppermint patties? That’s exactly what happened, and you won’t believe how simple it is....
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Homemade Sunflower Butter
Nut & seed butters! Delicious, good for you, so easy to make you won’t believe it, and economical. If you have a food processor, you can literally whirr up a batch in less than 25 minutes, from...
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Marinated Mushrooms with walnut and tahini yogurt
Here is a perfect summer mushroom plate. It is light & healthy and travels very well for lunch al fresco. It starts with a tangy marinade of olive oil, white wine vinegar, maple syrup and lemons...
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Honey Wheat Cookies
Happy Autumn! These little ‘cookies’ are more like little cakes, thanks to their chewy texture. The recipe calls for good honey, lemon zest, and wheat germ which is a handy pantry item (good to add to...
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Homemade Granola, Yogurt & Pomegranate Seeds
Homemade granola is just about perfect. You can make one or two baking sheets of it and it will sit patiently, and quite beautifully, in a jar on your counter for at least two weeks – but it will...
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Pain d’Epices – Honey & Spice Cake
This ‘cake’ is a marvel of baking chemistry. Pain d’Epices (which translates to ‘spice bread’) has a roughly 450 year old rich history in France, resulting in countless variations. Dorie Greenspan’s...
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Parsnip Soup with Leeks, Apples, Pecans and Nutmeg
‘Tis the season to embrace the season. We are in the deep winter now. Here in New England, we are buried in snow, with snowbank peaks and valleys higher than our heads. By these involuntary or...
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Spring Potato Salad
My thoughts this week are drifting to Spring’s arrival on Friday. It was a great winter for cooking, lots of new recipes, lots of tinkering with past ones, but the sun’s angle has shifted, clocks have...
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Sweet Potato, Pear & Bacon Soup
I love when a soup like this comes together! I found myself with a handful of sweet potatoes and a few juicy Bartlett pears, both which needed action before being past their prime. When I discovered a...
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Bok Choy, Carrot & Apple Salad
This is a perfect salad! Five ingredients and the only work required is some matchstick dicing, (which can be quite a calming task) grating and squeezing. The ginger and lemon juice mellow each other...
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Summer Sorbets
Happy Summer! Time to feel the heat and enjoy delicious ways to temper it. With the abundance of juicy berries in season and the summertime love of refreshing lemons, here are three sorbets to keep in...
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Fresh Lima Beans
Looks can be deceiving: this is the Lima Bean story. If you see them in the market or store, they are completely unassuming: But what sneakily hides inside these flat pods is a treasure. They are one...
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Date & Almond Spice Bread
Welcome November! The weather here around Boston is starting to cool down, dusk arrives noticeably sooner and so it’s time for cozy, spice breads. This one is jam-packed with marinated dates, almonds,...
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Cucumber Salad with Smashed Garlic and Ginger
Happy new year! I really enjoy this time of the season, the lull after the holiday excitement, and the refocusing on the new year ahead. The weather is cold and bright here, so I see this zesty, fresh...
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Sweet Potato, Green Apple & Celery Salad
Here is a perfect dish for trumpeting Spring: crunchy vegetables, bright lemon juice, spicy grated ginger and sweet honey – like a deep breath of fresh air after a long winter. I stumbled upon this...
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My Love for France
I was 17 for my first trip to France, the summer before my senior year of high school, when a beloved French teacher arranged for her annual two-week trip to France. We covered an impressive amount of...
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Endive & Avocado Salad
This is one of my favorite winter salads (or spring, or summer, or fall) because it can be chopped and whisked together in minutes and has a short ingredient list: endive, avocado, olive oil, Dijon...
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Salade Nicoise
A Salade Nicoise is a classic French salad named after its birth city of Nice (pronounced neese). I have always loved it for sentimental reasons, but it’s perfect hot-weather fare because every...
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Kohlrabi & Walnut Salad
Less is more. I find this is often true with recipes and ingredients, and this recipe has a short ingredient list with big flavor and texture. Kohlrabi is in the Brassica family along with cabbage,...
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Love & Macarons
Just a friendly reminder to take care of eachother! #colliersmarket #sometimesmacarons #extrabatterlove #chocolatealmond #frenchmacarons
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