Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Coconut Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Do you like cooking with your kids?  This isn’t a trick question. I can see why some people love it. I can also see why some people hate it.  Kids have a tendency to make things either a lot more fun or a lot more 

Stone Fruit Crumble

Stone Fruit Crumble

or, Alternatively titled, “The prodigal daughter returns, hanging her head in shame.” Actually, no shame.  I just took a break.  You all get that, right?  It’s only been a month.  Truth be told, I’m in one of those food ruts.  Like the kind where I 

Rhubarb Frozen Custard

Rhubarb Frozen Custard

Have we had enough frozen treats, yet?!  No?  Great!  We won’t be done until there’s no heavy cream left on store shelves and we all need to size up in our bathing suits, right?! Right?!  Hello?

Sour Cherry and Chocolate Frozen Yogurt

For a person who makes her own condiments and bakes her own bread, I have a decidedly lazy streak when it comes to certain things.  It’s ok, don’t we all, even the overachievers among us?  So here’s my confession: I leave laundry in the dryer 

Party Cake with Fresh Whipped Cream and Berries

I might have mentioned this before (erm, once or twice?), but I love berry season.  It takes all my willpower not to come home every week from the farmers’ market with flats of every berry I can lay  my hands on. And sometimes my willpower 

Brown Butter Blondies

Listen.  It’s mid-June.  The beginning of summer.  You really should be eating healthfully.  Loading your body up with nutrient-packed greens and antioxidant rich berries and all of that.  I mean, that’s what I’m doing.  Mostly.  But chocolate and vanilla and browned butter know no season. 

Rhubarb Muffins with Almond Streusel

Rhubarb Muffins with Almond Streusel

Right before and after I had my little girl, a lot of people told me that having two kids was great.  That it was tough at first (they said this with a perceptible shudder, which made me start sweating just a bit), but that after 

Apple Pandowdy

I try to not eat things like skillet apple pie all the time, I swear.  I really do start out with the best intentions.  I go to the store and buy dozens of apples (healthy snacks!), but in the end, they wind up covered in butter 

Chocolate Chip Cake

Since I’ve been on such a roll with my old tried-and-true recipes, I figure I might as well just keep on truckin’.  And it doesn’t get much better than this.  This is recipe gold, folks.  Cake.  Chocolate Chips. Cinnamon Sugar.  A big chunk of this 

Galette des rois

I’m going to go ahead and admit defeat on a few different levels today.  Just to make you guys feel better about yourselves. First, I took my Christmas tree down today.  I know, you’re thinking that I’m really on top of it, Good job, Christina!