Cardamom-Ginger Sweet Potato Muffins with Toasted Pecans

I had the first snow day of my adult life last week, and I got just as excited about it as I used to when I was a kid. When my alarm went off, I rolled over to check my email, discovered a note from the boss saying we could work from home, and am [...]

Sour Cherry Pie

I get absurdly excited about sour cherries. I think it’s because they’re around for such a short time before they’re gone until next year. I missed them last year. I was busy or out of town, and by the time I got around to them, all I could find was one sad-looking,overpriced container of bruised, [...]

Strawberry Balsamic (Basil) Sorbet

It’s all strawberries, all the time, around here, I know. I’ll vary it up a little soon, but there are few things I hate more than to see good food go to waste, so when the last of the CSA berry bounty was still sitting on my counter on Sunday night, and I’d used up [...]

Mom’s Molasses Cookies

This winter feels like it has been much colder than any other I can remember in the eight plus years I’ve lived in Brooklyn. The frigid air and the rushed steps from apartment to train, train to office, and back again, have me in a bit of a funk, to be honest. It’s hard to [...]