Strawberry Sauce In May when they finally come into season, it’s been so long since we had fresh juicy fruit – since August, when the peaches dried up – that we just grab handfuls of strawberries and cram them into our mouths plain. But after a few days, we’re ready to eat strawberries in more …
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Chocolate bark
A great Christmas present… Chocolate bark looks very luxurious when you put it in a fancy box or bag with curled ribbons, but it’s cheap and very easy to make, and only takes a few minutes of work (plus a couple of hours to cool). And, like chocolate mousse, it doesn’t even use the stove. How …
Chocolate strawberries
A funny fundraiser story I once went to a fancy fundraiser at a very fancy house up in the hills on the expensive West Side of Portland, and the whole thing was being catered in a very beautiful way, with little tables and lots of little stations each with its own type of food. But …
Chocolate mousse
Every day for two weeks… I’ve tried many chocolate mousse recipes over the years, and they’re good, but most of them are unreliable. Sometimes you get a great chocolate mousse, and sometimes it’s all runny and won’t set up. How can you make an unreliable dessert when there’s people coming to dinner? So I decided …
Brownies
We always used brownie mix… For years I kept three or four boxes of brownie mix in the house all the time, so the kids could make brownies whenever they wanted to. It was 99 cents a box, it was the simplest possible recipe, and it made something they loved. What could be better? But …
Baked apples
Fairly healthy dessert Baked apples aren’t health food – if you want that, just eat an apple, which is also good! But they are better for you than pie and certainly better than cookies or ice cream. And baked apples only take a few minutes to put together, cook while you are eating dinner, and …
Corn on the cob
Fresh, fresh, fresh corn When I was a kid, everyone emphasized how important it was to have your corn as fresh as possible. My mom used to boil the water first, and then send me and my brother out to pick the ears of corn from our garden, so the corn could go straight from …
Oatmeal in seconds
Better than my mother’s oatmeal My mother was a good mother and she made us good hot bowls of oatmeal every winter morning and we hated it. Her oatmeal was terrible: gloppy stuff like jello. Then I got married, and my husband made oatmeal, and it was nothing like hers at all – this oatmeal …