In our family, coffee and sweet treats go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Of course, we all enjoy coffee without sweets, but rarely the...
Cookbook author Alice Medrich has a great tip for removing hazelnut skins. Bring a pot full of water to a boil, add 3 tablespoons baking soda and...
Cabbage harvest wraps up in November, but the leafy green stores well and is available from local farms all winter long.I recently spoke with...
Ah, February: the days are short, and the winds are mighty. It's prime hunker-down time; in our house, a permanent stash of blankets lives on the...
Fallen chocolate cake, or molten chocolate cake, is an undercooked-in-the-center mound of intense, buttery chocolate cake. We wanted to turn this...
The last place you’ll catch my wife and me on Valentine’s Day is dining at a restaurant. Since I’m a food writer, I eat out nearly every day...
High season for foraging mushrooms is still months away, but luckily for all of us, mushroom farmers across the Valley cultivate the tasty fungus...
When flour, eggs, and milk get together, their machinations are a bit of a mystery to those of us who are not food scientists. First, they turn...