Is it lemon season where you are and you have an abundance of those waxy, yellow beauties to zest and juice? Maybe there’s this little bit of ricotta hanging out in your fridge that you really don’t want to just toss, yet how else will you use it? Do you ...
Can I just say oh-my-goodness YUM! Let me start by pointing out that I am a huge fan of cookies of all kinds. The dry and crumbly shortbread, the chewy molasses spice, the sweet and chunky almond-blueberry, the cocoa-rich chocolate sugar cookie, the tart and creamy lemon ricotta cookie, ...
I don’t know about you, but when I was young my Mom used to make chocolate chip cookie bars every once in a while and they were a thing of beauty. Thick, chewy, sweet, and addictive. The tops were kind of crunchy and if you had one while they were...
So when I’m complaining in March about my weight while running up hills in the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day Road Race, some please remind me about these cookies and my decision to make them… and to eat them…. You see, my neighbor has been wonderful this winter in helping me...
So yesterday we got hit with our third snow storm in three weeks, and this time it buried us. What else was there to do but stay home, do some housework, shovel ridiculous amounts of snow, and cook? I had lugged my snowblower out of the basement last month in...
So a coworker shared a recipe this week for a lemon ricotta cookie. When I found out this morning that Mom would be bringing Gram by for tea this afternoon I knew that I had the perfect reason to try them. They came out very nice. I have tweaked the...
Also in this month’s Food & Wine mag was a recipe for Spicy Asian-Chicken-Salad Lettuce Cups. I wanted to bring something healthy to the party for those who don’t eat cherry ganache-stuffed chocolate chunk espresso cookies. I liked the idea for a moist chicken salad that used rotisserie chicken,...
So this month’s Food & Wine mag came in the mail last week and as is my norm I read it cover to cover and ripped out pages that looked interesting as well as recipes that looked hopeful. When it came time to decide on dishes to bring to a...