Food Is Love: Oatmeal Cookies
It’s excruciating, waiting. S and I have some practice at it, after so many months of waiting for a positive pregnancy test, but nothing compares to what we’re going through now. We’re waiting for S’s father to pass away. Don has had multiple sclerosis for 42 years. One of the first things S told me ...Keep Reading
Chocolate Polenta Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote
I’m always on the lookout for new dessert recipes that meet certain criteria. They must be decadent-sounding, though not actually dangerous (I continue to hope that I’ll manage to follow Weight Watchers a little more faithfully). They must be different enough from the thousands of recipes I already have, in cookbooks and clipping files. If ...Keep Reading
Chocolate Pizzelles
Before I met S, I’d never tasted a pizzelle, the delicate, anise-scented Italian waffle cookie. It just wasn’t in my Jewish-American food vernacular. But S’s family is, as we all know, Italian-American; when he started inviting me along to clan get-togethers in south Jersey, I learned all about the cookies, quickly. His Big Gram would ...Keep Reading
Passover Birthdays Don’t Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law K’s birthday. It’s also the beginning of Passover—starting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden foods, known as chametz: bread, pasta, corn, legumes, rice, flour, yeast, baking powder & soda, and even mustard.* This includes any and all prepared foods made with even the ...Keep Reading
Passover Birthdays Don’t Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law K’s birthday. It’s also the beginning of Passover—starting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden foods, known as chametz: bread, pasta, corn, legumes, rice, flour, yeast, baking powder & soda, and even mustard.* This includes any and all prepared foods made with even the ...Keep Reading
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