Wherefore Art Thou, Hamantaschen Recipe of My Dreams?
You may recall that last year around this time, my hamantaschen melted.
This year’s recipe was an improvement on that sorry experience, but it’s the first time ...
Baby Food, Baking, Breakfast, My Story, Snack, Weight Watchers
Eight Years Ago This Very Minute…
…the man I would someday marry sat next to me at Tavern on Jane. I was expecting him—we’d met online, and I’d learned from years ...
Baking, Dessert, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Parenting, Snack
I Gave Him My Heart (now give me a pen)*
I’m not gonna lie: These Chocolate Whole Wheat Sandwich Cookies with Raspberry Filling are a production. It took me the better part of an afternoon to ...
New Year’s Eve Nibbles
Assuming Harry ever finishes digging us out, there’s a chance we’ll actually be celebrating New Year’s Eve this year—even before the boy came along, neither Stephen nor ...
Chocolate-Almond Spritz Cookies
These lightly sweet, crumbly little cookies were our holiday gift for Harry’s teachers—they’re spritz cookies, the kind you make with a cookie press (mine is ...
Jew Food, Pantry Cooking, Sides, Starters, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers
Less-Oil Latkes
Delicate. Crisp outside. Meltingly soft inside. Very, very satisfying. My friends, ...
How to Enjoy Thanksgiving Without Blowing Your Diet
America’s official Day of Gluttony isn’t easy to navigate when you’re trying to lose a few. But during the three years it took me to lose ...
Halloween 2010
By 6PM, all that remained were five sucking candies and a packet of Looney Tunes gummies.
L’Shana Tova, Everyone
L’Shana Tova, Everyone
