HONEY BLONDIES If you follow this blog regularly you know there are some foods I can never get enough of – ginger, blackberries, meringue, chocolate – and honey. Hmm…that could be a really interesting recipe, with just those ingredients. Somehow I’ve never made a blondie recipe for a post, and I love this one because the honey adds such depth of flavor to what can be a bit of a blah vanilla brownie (if a brownie can be vanilla). Honey […]

CHOCOLATE BUNDT CAKE When I first learned to cook, my mother started me out on desserts – possibly to engage my culinary interest, or maybe because by the time she got to the end of the meal she had run out of steam and was glad to have someone else do the dessert. Bundt cakes were all the rage back then, and I made them in many forms: lemon, double chocolate, ginger molasses, and even a dark chocolate with coconut […]

There’s nothing like a simple cake to round out a casual meal, something you can whip up in between peeling vegetables and tearing up a salad. The batter on this cake is very fine, and the fruity freshness of the raspberries coupled with a zing of lemon makes this an incredibly versatile recipe. You can make these in a muffin tin, a loaf pan, or a simple cake pan. However you shape it, it’s delicious. Please note, this is not […]

One of our America’s Table staff has a husband stationed in Iraq this Christmas, so we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that we can’t all be home for the holidays. One way to let our military personnel abroad know that we’re thinking of them is to send a package of goodies by December 15th.  This shoutout is for the Army First Infantry Division. Need ideas for what to send? Specifics vary, depending on where they are deployed, […]