Category: Recipes

Carrot Pudding for Fussy Eaters

When I was pregnant with the Nuni, I ate prodigiously of a wide variety of foods. I have read that the mother's diet can be "tasted" by the baby, and babies develop a preference …

Spring Pea Soup

Springtime may be the most eagerly anticipated time of the year. I have vivid memories of the first warm day of each year when I lived on the East Coast – people would emerge …

Hot Cross Buns

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3376089927_3db6ab3da8.jpg?v=0" alt="" /> <br /> I wasn’t going to post these at all. They didn’t come out exactly as I wanted them to – the cross wasn’t defined, the shape was a little wonky, and …

Laurie Colwin’s Gingerbread

It’s a common question on college application essays and at boring dinner parties – if you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, whom would you choose? Jesus figures highly in the answers …

Fried Zucchini Blossoms

When Ken and I first moved to Los Angeles, we’d go to our favorite local bar every Sunday night. We’d sit in a booth sipping local microbrews and munching upmarket bar snacks like wood fired …
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