This is the perfect chocolate cake. It’s moist and dense and not too rich or too sweet. There are no gimmicks involved. It’s just chocolate cake. It’s called Chocolate Dump-it Cake, a name which refers to how non-fussy the recipe is. There is no beating, creaming, or folding involved. Everything is just quickly whisked together [...]
A few years ago my old roommate Leslie went camping in Ithaca and ate at the Moosewood Restaurant. She brought me back a copy of the Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts. There are quite a few recipes in there that have become old standbys that people ask me to make again and again. I’ve made [...]
By this time of year I’m always ready to start eating light, fresh tasting things. Before the strawberries and rhubarb come in citrusy desserts are the way to go. I’m a very big fan of lemon meringue pie. I thought about making it for Easter, but when I went looking for a recipe I came [...]
My mom has two recipe cards written in her mother’s hand. One is for Irish Stew, the other is for soda bread. My mom remembers her father once making soda bread. He put a ton of baking soda in it and it was pretty awful. He insisted that that was the way his Irish mother [...]
I eat an awful lot of granola bars. I’ve tried a few times over the past couple years to make my own, but it’s a hard thing to get right. You need enough sticky stuff to make them hold together, but too much makes them sickeningly sweet. The first recipe I tried pretty much just [...]
