In her kindergarten class, my daughter and her friends are studying snails. They have become little experts on whorls (the swirl on a snail’s shell) and just about every other detail of snail living, and to celebrate, I got to spend an afternoon with them at school making a holiday take on lumace, snail pastries. […]
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Every year when the pumpkins are lined up at the greenmarket, ready to take home and carve or roast, we get excited by all the recipe possibilities. Pumpkin, for all its popularity on Halloween and in Thanksgiving pies, has a season that extends well beyond November. For these sandwich cookies, we wanted to have simple […]
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While we are finishing up our Halloween preparations, we need a little fortifying food to eat. Something substantial and seasonal but snacky, too. This apple pancake, assembled quickly and into the oven lickety split fits the bill. For cooking class, we used local Gala and Roma apples, not to sweet and not too tart, and […]
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Back in March, Jane of the Spain Daily blog, shared a recipe for the delicious looking yogurt cake in one of her posts. She serves it as a companion to her coffee. Yum. It seemed like such an easy thing to whip up. And, since we had never had a yogurt cake, I was curious […]
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When I was thinking about what to make for this past Saturday’s greenmarket demo, I knew that it should be a dessert with peaches and berries. They are just so luscious right now. Being a Georgia-born girl, finding that perfect peach occupies an excessive amount of my summertime- it should be sweet, juicy, but with […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…