With so many kinds of fruit available now that stone fruit are coming in and strawberries and other berries are beginning to be available i...

Summer certainly brings lots of kinds of fruit. Right now we have ripe peaches, luscious dark cherries, olallieberries right off the vine...

The fresh apricot season is pretty short. When I spotted some organic apricots that were ripe and on sale at a local market on Monday I b...

We have reached one of the great times of year for a baker. The first of the stone fruits are coming into the markets. Ripe, fragrant apr...

I know that the post title is boring, but the coffee cake wasn't. It was zingy with fresh apricots, crunchy due to the sugary topping...

If you read through some of my blog posts it probably seems like I bake all the time, just because. In truth I used to do just that, but...

What would you make if you had some really nice fresh apricots, ripe and fragrant and about the size of a tennis ball? How about ripe, sw...

One of the many things I love about Dorie Greenspan's recipes is that she often includes a sidebar with suggestions for changes one c...

You probably know someone who is a vegan. We used to call them vegetarians, but then vegetarians divided up that world and some were ovo-...

It can't be Sunday evening, a full week after St. Patrick's Day! Where has the time gone? For about a week before that day and fo...

When you read British food blogs, I think they refer to today's recipe as a tray bake...a treat baked in a rectangular pan (or even ...

Living as I do with a 'meat and potatoes' kinda guy, I have a lot of standard recipes that I know he likes. Most of these have been...

You never know when inspiration will strike. I was avidly reading through Peter Reinhart’s book Artisan Breads Every Day a short while ago...

What do you do that makes you happy? This is a question that comes up early on in a book I just read. The School of Essential Ingredients ...