Seasonal recipes for today's kitchen
I know that Halloween is around the corner, and I should be carving pumpkins. But I decided to carve and stuff apples instead. Baking apples, scented with cinnamon and packed with a mixture of pecans and dried fruit, says that happy fall days are here.–Read more
This summer I’ve discovered Italian prune plums. A few weeks ago a merchant at our farmers’ market recommended them to me for jam making. Their purple skins hide a greenish yellow interior, creating a rather mundane appearance when raw. And I know– their name is–Read more
Colorado summers are made sweeter with Palisade peaches that are grown and harvested in the western part of our state. Farmers markets, grocery stores, and even street corner vendors have piles of these fruit jewels for sale. We’ve baked fruit crisps and made ice cream–Read more
The day that my bag of shelled pistachios met a pile of bittersweet chocolate was a very good one. I was looking for a dessert to cap off a spring dinner out on the deck, and this pistachio and chocolate tart answered my call. As–Read more
Imagine a Valentine’s dessert that’s warm, spicy and the color of an old-fashioned Cupid’s heart. That’s where my brain went to when I saw Ina Garten’s recipe for an oven-roasted applesauce flavored with fresh raspberries in her latest book, Cooking for Jeffrey. Ina is famous–Read more
This pear tart is a magic trick. You take fresh pears, 5 other ingredients, about 10 minutes of prep time, bake it for half an hour and poof! A beautiful dessert is on your table, waiting for a round of applause. I have often made this pear–Read more