Many people probably used Passover as an opportunity to diet, cut out the carbs and sweets for a week, eat more salad. I concocted two different types of flourless brownies and made ice cream sundaes with them every night.

One can only stroll, shop, people watch, dine al fresco, and sit in parks for so long before feeling a little, er, idle, and so it was only a short matter of time before I was seized by the urge to be in my kitchen making a multistep, mulitlayered, multicolored cake/cookie concoction that required the purchase [...]

If anyone ever gets wind of me deciding to spend my one day off making homemade ravioli again, please please try to talk me out of it. Call me up and tell me it’s really not necessary, that instead I should put my feet up and relax. I probably won’t pick up but you can leave [...]

What feels like a million years ago I made these mini cupcakes for Natalie’s birthday. They were basically her birthday present last year in mini cupcake form. Except without the cookie dough component. Dammit. I realized too late that I probably should’ve filled some of the cupcakes with cookie dough, and I hope she’ll forgive [...]

Melissa Clark just published a recipe for Olive Oil and Coconut Brownies and in the accompanying write-up talks about how, when it comes to dessert, her husband is perfectly content as long as chocolate features prominently, preferably in the form of chewy dark brownies, and about how well this works out for her since she’d [...]

Does chicken with roasted grapes sound a little odd to you? It did to me, which is why I needed to make it.

We went to the husband’s side of the family’s Thanksgiving this year and so I didn’t have the privilege of tasting these amaaazing oaty chocolate caramel bars that my brother’s girlfriend brought for dessert. My mother and sister were positively gushing about how sinful they were, so I had to get the recipe and make [...]

My sister-in-law’s father’s stuffing. We loved it so much when we had it for the first time a few years ago that I had to get the recipe. It’s vegetarian, which for whatever reason makes me really happy. On holidays and big gatherings where lots of food is involved, I always find myself thinking of [...]

I wasn’t even going to tell you about this one, but then it really grew on me, as quick breads tend to do. They almost always get better as they mature, and by the time I was down to this last end piece, I was seriously regretting bringing nearly half the loaf to my neighbors [...]

Sometimes I don’t have anything particularly illuminating to say about a recipe but I really like the photos. I wouldn’t want to deprive you of some baby pear porn, so here goes.

We may have to emphasize quantity over quality this week. I didn’t even know where to start. I have eight posts queued up and not one is expendable. For no justifiable reason I am panicked about this and maybe just maybe a bit scatterbrained. Also, I’m losing a lot of hair. Does that happen from [...]

Before I give you the backstory on this one, I must gush and rave. This cake is f*ing amazing. It is sooo f*ing good. Good enough to necessitate expletives, Dale? Really? Hell f*ing yes! If I ever write a cookbook or open a restaurant, this cake will surely be featured. It is just so delicious. Nothing fancy, [...]

Well now that summer’s in full swing, an oven-roasted chicken is probably one of the last things you want to be making, right? In fact, I’ve probably picked the worst possible day to present you with this recipe, what with temperatures in these parts reaching record highs. You’d probably prefer a recipe for, say, beer-can [...]

I was dying while making these. Just trembling with excitement and anticipation with each disgusting, I mean delicious, layer. Layer 1: melted butter; layer 2: crushed-up shortbread cookies (and so just to clarify, we now have buttery shortbread cookies soaking in melted butter); layer 3: sweetened shredded coconut; layer 4: chopped pecans; layer 5: top-quality dark [...]

So remember when I made that Absurdly Easy Chocolate Fudge and I, um, went a little crazy, going off about a city of mini fudge people up in arms? And I vowed to make a more authentic fudge, the kind of fudge my mother remembers coming home from school to? Well, it only took me [...]