This recipe is dedicated to my beloved Grandma Ida, who baked with Crisco and love along with plenty of eggs and white sugar, but I am sure she’d love what I did here. My daughter Tracy is making a batch of these cookies for our family seder this week. Passover, like all of my family’s […]
Dukkah-Spiced Chocolate–Covered Matzoh for Passover
My aunt Arlene, cousin Sheila’s mom (Sheila Bender of WritingItReal.com), was our family’s gourmet cook, and she made a fine French Passover meal one year. It was not a hit. I tried changing up the ritual Charoset a few times but my family was disappointed. They wanted the Ashkenazi version, which is primarily apples, walnuts, cinnamon bound with […]
Nutrition Champs Recipe and a Giveaway
Full disclosure: Jill Nussinow, RD, aka the VeggieQueen and I are very good friends. She stays in my apartment when she’s in NYC, I’ve stayed in her home in paradise (Santa Rosa, CA) and we’ve been roommates at many culinary conferences since meeting more years ago than I can remember, at an IACP (International Association of Culinary […]
Vegan Ice Cream for Margarita Day
I was watching Oscar previews and thinking about getting outside quickly during this short window of sun and double digit temperatures in NYC, when I learned that today is National Margarita Day. Where? On twitter of course. (BTW, I’m @Goodcakesfran.) I don’t eat much ice cream in winter, especially not during this super frigid one. Still, I couldn’t resist posting this […]
