No matter whom you’re cheering for next week, you’re sure to please everyone with these recipes for an ecumenical pregame party. I can’t predict the outcome of the games, only that there’s something for everyone here: Bourbon-glazed pecans for the UK fans, Beer and Cheddar Cheese dip if you’re a Wisconsin fan, a green and clean cocktail for the Michigan Spartans, and Devilishly Hot Peanuts for Duke’s Blue Devils. Nothing is too time-consuming – this is supposed to be fun, […]
This recipe has been over twenty years in the making. I didn’t come naturally to the matzoh ball, growing up in a small Midwestern town. (In fact, I’m pretty sure my husband was the first Jewish person my mother ever met.) This was one of those meals I wanted to learn when we got married, because I knew my husband loved matzoh ball soup, and Washington is not oversubscribed with delis. His mother told me the secret to a great […]
Do you remember a children’s book called “The Enchanted Egg,” about an elf who finds a sugar egg with a beautiful diorama inside? I’ve always been entranced by the idea of an exquisite secret world inside a lavishly-decorated sugar egg. Sugar eggs were always a big hit in our Easter baskets, and they lasted for years – or at least we kept them for years. My friend Roxanne (you may remember her from the fabulous Halloween cupcakes,) has kindly agreed […]
I have potent childhood memories of wide swaths of daffodils growing down the length of my grandmother’s land, and into and beneath great canes of forsythia bushes. The forsythia bushes were a natural habitat for rabbits and little girls, and in the spring, before they put out their leaves, I used to burrow into the forsythia and squat there quietly, occasionally rewarded by the appearance of a wild rabbit peaking out among the daffodils and wriggling his nose at me. […]
If you’re looking for a main dish that will make a bountiful and impressive presentation for Easter Sunday, a crown rack of lamb is an elegant choice. I made a small one, because there’s just the two of us at home now, but you can buy larger racks of lamb, or use three racks instead of two to serve a bigger crowd. I’d never tried to make a rack of lamb before, and was a little intimidated about how to […]
