Today’s vegans can choose among decadent and delicious dessert recipes for cookies, cakes, puddings, frozen desserts – the list goes on. If you have been reading my blog or have read my cookbooks – and I sure hope you have! – or if you’ve taken any one of my cooking classes, you know my mantra is desserts are […]
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
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 […]
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Thanksgiving snuck on me this year, although I did have a pre-thanksgiving good time in September baking Chocolate Studded Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with Grant Butler, food writer for the Oregonian, when I was in Portland, OR, and again in October at the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary ThanksLiving. At this sold out event, the turkeys were served […]
