Vegan chocolate cake

Simple, elegant, delicious, vegan My daughter puts on a pop-up restaurant fund-raiser for homeless people every year, and all kinds of people come, so we always need to have good vegan desserts. One of the waitresses – a friend of my daughter’s – brought this vegan chocolate cake one year, and we’ve made it every …

Squash soup

Out of fashion? A few years ago, I was reading restaurant reviews in the New York Times, and the reviewer criticized some restaurant for serving butternut squash soup made with squash and cream. The reviewer thought this was hopelessly behind the times, but I’d never had it. There wasn’t a recipe, of course, but I …

Noodle soufflé

Fancier Noodle Kugel My mother always made this noodle souffle on Christmas, as a brunch to keep us going until Christmas dinner, and get us away from the chocolate. It’s essentially a noodle kugel with beaten egg whites to make it a souffle, and a bunch of dairy added,s but it’s more exciting to eat …

Corn pancakes

Breakfast for dinner Sometimes, you just don’t feel like regular dinner stuff for dinner. Maybe everyone’s tired. Maybe you just want something sweet. Or it needs to be really really cheap. Maybe you’re just looking for another way to eat sweet corn while it’s still in season. Those nights, we have corn pancakes. How to …