Our Share of the Harvest

I think strawberries are the quintessential local, seasonal food.  Some people would argue that tomatoes better represent the kind of quality you can only get locally but I think the difference between a May strawberry from a farm near your house and a December strawberry from somewhere else in the world that ends up in [...]

To anyone who lives or has lived in a more rural area, these cookies should look somewhat familiar.  Versions of this recipe can be found on bake sales, at church socials, holiday gatherings and those compilation cookbooks firehouses sell.  Maybe they have chocolate chips instead of white chocolate or maybe they don’t include the oatmeal [...]

I know you’ve seen them and you’ve probably bought them once or twice–those pillowy sugar cookies with technicolor frosting sold in the plastic clamshells in the bakery section of the grocery store.  They are full of sugar and artificial ingredients but when you really want something indulgent and sweet, those little babies are just the [...]

Our What’s Baking theme this month is to bake for St. Patty’s Day which, I have to admit, was kinda tricky for me. See, as a 30-year-old without much Irish in her roots, I’m just not that into St. Patrick’s Day.  What used to be an excuse to go bar-hopping and drink cheap food-color-tinted beer [...]

One of my favorite cakes to make for a special birthday involves a cheesecake layer between two cake layers then dripping the whole thing in chocolate ganache.  For a friend’s October birthday, I used chocolate cake and pumpkin spice latte cheesecake; Greg is a peanut butter cup lover so his version has chocolate cake and [...]