This is one of those delicious cake-like cookies that are a bit old-fashioned, the sort of thing you might be served at tea with the Dowager Duchess of Grantham. I love this cookie because it’s festive and unusual. Honey is more a sweetener than a flavor, so honey cookies can be a little bland, but the honey in the soft and shiny frosting comes through like the warm buzz of honey bees hard at work on a midsummer’s day – […]
A good cookie after a long school day can make the world seem like a kinder place, and, let’s face it, the first day of school is BIG. There’s so much to talk about, so many new things to mull over, challenges laid down for the future; if the first day of school is big, then the first day of after-school is equally important for parents to get their kids’ first impressions. My standard line after school line was, “Tell […]
My grandmother grew up in Georgia, and her meals were always redolent with the flavors of the South. I never tasted okra until she cooked it, and her version was so different from any other okra recipes I’ve seen that I want to share it with you. Okra can be stringy, slimy, and tough – or you can make it like this and get something very different. She used to chop okra into coins, roll it in cornmeal, and flash […]
This recipe came from my younger daughter, who used to buy these chocolate-covered and salted rice cakes at Itsu, a high quality sushi chain in London. It’s so simple to make this low-calorie, sweet-and-salty snack – all it takes are 3 ingredients and a microwave. This is a great sleepover snack if you’ve got kids coming over because it’s also an activity; it’s fun to brush the chocolate on the rice cakes and sprinkle them with salt, and then wait […]
This recipe brings back fond childhood memories. My mother used to make this on weekend mornings and we went at it like ravenous animals – probably because of the sugar involved. It’s not the healthiest breakfast in the world, but if someone shows up around breakfast time and the cupboard is bare, you can turn out a creditable nosh with just some bread, sugar, butter, and cinnamon. I like using brown bread for this, but any bread will do (brioche […]
