This past fall on a beautiful autumnal day, I had the pleasure of leading my students on a walking tour of Union Square Farmers Market. While there we picked up Golden Delicious Apples for only $4 for...Read More
Whenever I drink mulled cider I am instantly transported back to my childhood. I was a member of the Children’s Chorus growing up and every holiday season for years we went caroling. The houses ...Read More
My sister brought my Mom a 4 pound Zucchini from her garden 20 years ago. My mom made zucchini soup, stir fry and the best zucchini bread ever from that beast. I used that recipe years ago first conve...Read More
Happy Holidays! It’s the first week of December, beginning of the holiday baking season. Start making your cookie doughs! I have used a variety of gingerbread recipes in my almost 20 year career...Read More
Happy Thanksgiving! As promised here is the recipe for Maple Icing to use on top of the Pumpkin Spice Mini Muffins. We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving shared with family and friends. Enjoy the ...Read More
I just looked at the calendar and realized Thanksgiving is a week away! I love my Bourbon Pecan Pie, but that is loaded with liquor and sugar. Not the best for the little ones. We are not the biggest ...Read More
Over Labor Day weekend we were at Grandma’s. We went to the Farmer’s Market and got some beautiful peaches from Pennings Orchard. The day before we finished our school supplies shopping at...Read More
Happy 4th of July! With the Fourth of July nearing I wanted to give you my Mom’s awesome potato salad recipe, but when I called her last night to get it I was shocked with how much sugar, butt...Read More
Alexander kept asking me to make banana bread, but everyone kept eating the bananas before they got brown. Finally I had to make a dessert for Alexander’s class so I got 3 big bunches and hid a ...Read More
I had two beautiful eggplants that I was going to make babaganoush with, but I also had some ground beef sitting in the fridge that I had to use up, so moussaka. Alexander had never had moussaka befor...Read More